Suzy Eddie Izzard

Suzy Eddie Izzard (born Edward John Izzard, 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues. Her stand-up tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), Force Majeure (2013) and Wunderbar (2022). Among various accolades, she won two Primetime Emmys for Dress to Kill and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

Izzard was born in Aden, then in Aden Colony and now in Yemen, to English parents Dorothy and Harold Izzard. The family moved to Northern Ireland and later to Wales. Izzard was six when her mother died of cancer. She attended St Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne and Eastbourne College, and studied drama at the University of Sheffield. She began to toy with comedy at university with her friend Rob Ballard, and spent much of the early 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States. Her first stage appearance was at the Comedy Store in London in 1987, and her breakthrough came in 1991 after she performed her "raised by wolves" routine on the televised Hysteria 3 AIDS benefit.

Izzard starred in the television series The Riches (2007-2008) and appeared in films including Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Valkyrie (2008) and Six Minutes to Midnight (2020), as well as voice roles in Cars 2 (2011) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). In 2009, she completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief, and in 2016 ran 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honour of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. In addition to her native English, she has performed stand-up in Arabic, French, German, Russian and Spanish. A dedicated Labour Party activist, she twice ran unsuccessfully for the party's National Executive Committee.