Eddie Izzard Net Worth 2024

What Is Eddie Izzard’s Net Worth?

Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actress, author, producer, and director who has a net worth of $20 million. Eddie Izzard is genderfluid and makes use of “she/her” pronouns. Eddie received two Primetime Emmys for the 1998 comedy particular “Dress to Kill,” and she or he has additionally launched the specials “Live on the Ambassadors” (1993), “Unrepeatable” (1994), “Definite Article” (1996), “Glorious” (1997), “Circle” (2002), “Sexie” (2003), “Stripped” (2009), “Live at Madison Square Garden” (2011), “Force Majeure” (2013), and “Wunderbar” (2022). Izzard starred as Wayne Malloy / Doug Rich on the FX collection “The Riches” (2007–2008), and she or he has greater than 70 performing credit to her title, together with the movies “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), “Mystery Men” (1999), “The Cat’s Meow” (2001), “All the Queen’s Men” (2001), “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007), and “Across the Universe” (2007) and the tv collection “United States of Tara” (2011), “Bullet within the Face” (2012), “Hannibal” (2013–2015), “Powers” (2015), “The Lost Symbol” (2021–current), and “Stay Close” (2021).

Eddie has lent her voice to quite a few animated tasks, comparable to “The Wild” (2006), “Igor” (2008), “Cars 2” (2011), “Rock Dog” (2016), “The Lego Batman Movie” (2017), “Abominable” (2019), “The Simpsons” (2010), and “Green Eggs and Ham” (2019). She has produced most of her comedy specials, and she or he directed 2002’s “Eddie Izzard: Dress to Circle,” a rough-cut of “Dress to Kill” in Paris that was carried out in French. Izzard additionally produced “The Riches” and the movies “Lost Christmas” (2011), “Get Duked!” (2019), and “Six Minutes to Midnight” (2020), and she or he wrote “Six Minutes to Midnight” and the 2003 TV miniseries “Mongrel Nation.” Eddie has appeared in Broadway productions of “A Day within the Death of Joe Egg” (2003) and “Race” (2010), incomes a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play for “A Day within the Death of Joe Egg.” In 2017, Izzard printed the e book “Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens.” Eddie was ranked #5 on the British TV community Channel 4’s “100 Greatest Comedy Stand-ups of All Time” listing in 2010.

Early Life

Eddie Izzard was born Edward John Izzard on February 7, 1962, in, Aden, Yemen. Eddie’s dad and mom, Dorothy and Harold, have been English, and she or he has an older brother named Mark. Dorothy was a nurse and midwife, and Harold, an accountant, was working for British Petroleum in Aden when Izzard was born. The family relocated to Ireland when Eddie was a child, and so they lived in Bangor till she was 5 years outdated. They then moved to Skewen, Wales. Sadly, Dorothy handed away from most cancers when Izzard was simply 6 years outdated, and when she was in poor health, Eddie and Mark occupied their time by constructing a mannequin railway. In 2016, Izzard donated it to Bexhill Museum in East Sussex. Eddie attended Newton’s St John’s School, Eastbourne’s St Bede’s Prep School, and Eastbourne College, then she enrolled on the  University of Sheffield to check drama. Izzard has mentioned that as a baby, she knew she was transgender after seeing a video of women forcing their brother to put on a gown. She said, “I will need to have been 4 or 5, and there was laughter, mocking. I bear in mind considering, ‘That sounds fairly good to me, I’d be fairly blissful to be a lady, what is going on on there?'”

Career

When Eddie was at college, she started performing comedy on the road together with her good friend Rob Ballard, and within the early ’80s, she was a road performer within the U.S. and Europe. Izzard later began acting at Britain’s stand-up comedy venues, starting with London’s Banana Cabaret. In 1989, she opened her personal comedy membership, Raging Bull, at Raymond’s Revue Bar in Soho. Eddie had her breakthrough when she carried out for the 1991 Hysteria 3 AIDS profit, which was televised. Izzard speaks French fluently, and she or he has carried out comedy in French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian. In 1994, she performed the lead position in a West End manufacturing of David Mamet’s “The Cryptogram,” adopted by a starring flip in a 1995 manufacturing of Christopher Marlowe’s “Edward II.” Izzard appeared within the TV motion pictures “Open Fire” (1994) and “Aristophanes: The Gods are Laughing” (1995) and the movies “The Oncoming Storm” (1995), “The Secret Agent” (1996), “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), “The Avengers” (1998), and “The Criminal” (1999), and she or he guest-starred on “Tales from the Crypt” in 1996. In 1999, she co-starred with Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, and Janeane Garofalo within the superhero comedy “Mystery Men” and portrayed Lenny Bruce in a manufacturing of Julian Barry’s “Lenny.”

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Eddie appeared within the movies “Circus” (2000), “Shadow of the Vampire” (2000), “All the Queen’s Men” (2001), “Alien Invasion” (2004), “Blueberry” (2004), “Romance & Cigarettes” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Across the Universe” (2007), “Valkyrie” (2008), and “Rage” (2009) and the documentary “The Aristocrats” (2005), and she or he portrayed Charlie Chaplin in 2001’s “The Cat’s Meow.” She performed Roman Nagel in 2004’s “Ocean’s Twelve” and 2007’s “Ocean’s Thirteen,” which grossed $363 million and $311.7 million on the field workplace, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, Izzard starred as Wayne Malloy / Doug Rich on the FX drama “The Riches” alongside Minnie Driver. The collection aired 20 episodes over two seasons and earned a Satellite Award nomination for Best Television Series, Drama. In 2011, she voiced Sir Miles Axlerod within the Pixar movie “Cars 2,” starred in and produced the BBC movie “Lost Christmas,” and had a recurring position as Dr. Jack Hattarras on Showtime’s “United States of Tara.” Eddie portrayed Long John Silver within the 2012 miniseries “Treasure Island,” and that 12 months she additionally performed Johann Tannhäuser on IFC’s “Bullet within the Face” and Grandpa within the TV particular “Mockingbird Lane,” which was a re-imagining of “The Munsters.”

Eddie appeared within the 2013 BBC One documentary “Meet the Izzards,” and from 2013 to 2015, she performed Dr. Abel Gideon in six episodes of NBC’s “Hannibal.” She starred as “Big Bad” Wolfe on the 2015 PlayStation Network collection “Powers,” and she or he appeared within the movies “Boychoir” (2014), “Absolutely Anything” (2015), “Whisky Galore!” (2016), “Victoria & Abdul” (2017), “Get Duked!” (2019), “The High Note” (2020), and “Six Minutes to Midnight” (2020). In 2019, she voiced Cadia on “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” and Hervnick Z. Snerz on “Green Eggs and Ham,” that are each Netflix reveals. In 2021, Izzard started starring as Peter Solomon on Peacock’s “The Lost Symbol,” and she or he performed Harry Sutton on the Netflix Harlan Coben collection “Stay Close.”

Personal Life

Eddie is a “non secular atheist” and she or he has mentioned, “I do not consider within the man upstairs, I consider in us.” She dated singer Sarah Townsend, who she met on the 1989 Edinburgh Festival, and Townsend wrote, directed, and produced the 2009 documentary “Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story.” Izzard is a supporter of Crystal Palace FC and have become an affiliate director for the workforce in 2012. Eddie has described herself as “considerably boy-ish and considerably girl-ish,” and in 2020, she mentioned that she most well-liked “she/her” pronouns and wished “to be based mostly in lady mode any longer.” Izzard beforehand recognized as a transvestite and started cross-dressing in public in her early twenties. She advised “Interview” journal in 2014, “I put on no matter I would like every time I would like. I do not name it drag; I do not even name it cross-dressing. It’s simply carrying a gown.”

Eddie has obtained honorary doctorates from the University of East Anglia, Norwich (2003), University of Sheffield (2006), University of Sunderland (2012), and York St John University (2018), and in 2010, she was elected the Sheffield Students’ Union Honorary President. In 2009, Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days with simply 5 weeks of coaching to boost funds for the U.Ok. charity Sport Relief and received a BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. In 2016, she ran 27 marathons in 27 days, elevating over £1.35M for the charity. In late 2020, Eddie introduced “Make Humanity Great Again: A Run For Hope,” by which she would try to run a marathon and carry out a stand-up comedy gig day by day in January 2021 to learn charities comparable to Care International, Covenant House, and Walking With The Wounded. The month-long occasion raised greater than £275,000. After unsuccessfully operating for a seat on the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee in 2016 and 2018, Izzard briefly changed Christine Shawcroft, who resigned in March 2018.

Awards and Nominations

Izzard earned three Primetime Emmy nominations for “Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill” in 2000, profitable Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Her different nomination was for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. In 2012, Eddie received an International Emmy for Kids: TV Movie/Mini-Series for “Lost Christmas,” and the next 12 months, she was honored with an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the American Humanist Association, the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics, and the Humanist Community at Harvard. In 2005, she earned a Webby Award nomination for Websites – Celebrity/Fan, and in 2007, she obtained a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor in a Series, Drama for “The Riches” and a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie: Chemistry together with her “Ocean’s Thirteen” castmates.

In 2008, “The Riches” earned Izzard an Astra Award nomination for Favourite International Personality or Actor, and in 2010, she obtained a Gold Derby Award nomination for Variety Performance of the Decade for “Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill.” In 2018, Eddie was nominated for an Achievement Award in Comedy Social Impact on the Legionnaires of Laughter Legacy Awards. For her stage work, Izzard received a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for “A Day within the Death of Joe Egg” in 2003 and a Theatre World Special Award in 1998. She additionally obtained a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance in 1997.