Eddie Izzard

Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, and activist. She is best known for her roles in various films, such as playing Tony P. Casanova in the 1999 superhero comedy film , Roman Nagel in the , as well as voicing Lord Voldemort in , Dr. Schadenfreude in the 2008 MGM sci-fi animated film , and Burnish in the 2019 / animated film .
For Disney, she voiced Nigel the koala in the 2006 animated feature film The Wild, Reepicheep in the 2008 epic fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and Miles Axlerod in the 2011 Disney/Pixar film Cars 2.
Izzard was born in Aden (then Aden Colony and now Yemen) to English parents Dorothy Ella Izzard and Harold John Michael Izzard. Their surname is of French Huguenot origin. Dorothy was a midwife and nurse, while Harold was an accountant who was working in Aden for British Petroleum at the time of Edward's birth. A brother, Mark, was born two years earlier. When Izzard was a year old, the family moved to Northern Ireland and settled in Bangor, where they lived until Eddie was five. The family then moved to Wales, where they lived in Skewen. Izzard was six when her mother died of cancer. The siblings built a model railway to occupy their time while their mother was ill, which was later donated to Bexhill Museum in 2016. Following her mother's death, Izzard attended the private St. John's School in Newton, St. Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne, and Eastbourne College. She has said that she knew she was transgender at the age of four, after watching a boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters, and knew she wanted to be an actor at the age of seven. She studied drama at the University of Sheffield.
==Roles==
Nigel the Koala.png|Nigel(The Wild)
Reepicheep.jpg|Reepicheep(The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian)
Miles Axelrod Cars 2.jpg|Miles Axlerod(Cars 2)
==Gallery==
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Eddie Izzard behind the scenes The Wild.jpg|Eddie Izzard behind the scenes of The Wild.
Eddie Izzard Cars 2 premiere.jpg|Eddie Izzard at the premiere of Cars 2 in June 2011.
Eddie Izzard TIFF14.jpg|Eddie Izzard attending the 2014 Toronto International Film Fest.
Eddie Izzard visits Stephen Colbert.jpg|Eddie Izzard visiting in July 2016.
Eddie Izzard Make Humanity Great Again.png|Eddie Izzard wearing her "Make Humanity Great Again" hat.
==Trivia==
*Following her gender transition, Izzard is gender-fluid and said she prefers "she" and "her" pronouns, but also "doesn't mind" "he" and "his".
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Category:1960s births
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