Eddie's parents John and Dorothy began making it in the late-1950s when they were living in Yemen it was completed around a decade later by John, Eddie, and Mark while Dorothy was battling cancer, the disease that later claimed her life. Since 2016, the Izzard Family Model Railway has been on display at the Bexhill Museum in East Sussex, England. To any trans person, indeed to LGBTQ people generally, I say: live your lives and please continue over-achieving. I don’t have a magic button, but I have carried on for 37 years. Being transgender is the overall grouping, and from very early on I realized that was the grouping I was in." She also spoke about how she deals with constant transphobia, saying: "Trans people have to keep going. " I didn’t see it as a huge change, calling myself transgender after calling myself transvestite," she continued. People shouted at me into the bread bin, they shouted at me online." People said to me I couldn’t be a transvestite if I was trans.
She is a tireless advocate for trans rights.Įarlier in her career, Izzard often referred to herself as an "action transvestite" or "gender-fluid." In 2020, she confirmed that she now uses "she" and "her" pronouns because she wants "to be based in girl mode from now on." Discussing her gender identity with The Daily Beast, she said: "When ‘trans’ came into the language, I realized that’s essentially where I am. "I plan to keep my feelers out, and keep fighting away,” she said.Ħ. Izzard has since said that her political ambitions remain undimmed, telling The Daily Beast that she hopes to stand as the Labour Party candidate in another constituency in northern England.
However, as The Guardian reported in December, she lost out to local councillor Abtisam Mohamed. Last year, Izzard put herself forward to become the Labour Party's candidate for Sheffield Central, a constituency in northern England. She is determined to become an MP (Member of Parliament). You can watch Izzard talking about the show – which runs until February 11 – in the interview below.ĥ. "I always feel at home in New York, and I believe if Charles Dickens were alive today, he would feel at home too." "Charles Dickens loved performing his own works in America, and so I thought it would be a wonderful idea to launch Great Expectations here," Eddie says on the website. Adapted by Mark Izzard, it's a one-woman show in which Eddie plays 19 different characters. Izzard is currently starring in a very unique version of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations at The Greenwich House Theater in New York. She also scored a Tony nomination for her 2003 performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, a powerful play about a British couple caring for their daughter who has cerebral palsy.
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Izzard has worked prolifically on both sides of the Atlantic in TV series including The R iches, Hannibal, and Stay Close. I add two minutes every night, and that’s how I build up a show." "The second night, I did a four-minute encore in Spanish.
So I got there, and I did the whole of my English show, so I did about an hour in English, and then at the end I did a two-minute encore in Spanish," she explained. "Like when I went to Spain, I didn’t speak any Spanish. In a 2018 interview with Babbel Magazine, Izzard revealed that she writes each show in English before translating it "from the back forward" with help from her brother Mark Izzard, a linguistics expert. Namely: English, Arabic, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. She has performed standup comedy in six different languages. Izzard won two Emmys for her 1999 stand-up special Dress to Kill, which was recorded at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre.Ģ. Here are 10 things we appreciate about this great British original. Happy birthday, Eddie Izzard! The brilliant actor, comedian, and trans rights campaigner is 61 today (February 7), so we're celebrating by making her our British Icon of the Week.
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