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Eddie Izzard

May 2024

  • Eddie Izzard during her Hamlet performance.

    Hamlet review – one-woman juggling act exposes limits of Eddie Izzard’s acting ability

    A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant garde cabaret at times

December 2023

  • Eddie Izzard

    Eddie Izzard fails in bid to represent Labour in Brighton seat

    Comedian and activist had hoped to be on ballot to try to take seat from Greens when Caroline Lucas stands down

November 2023

  • Suzy Eddie Izzard<br>Eddie Izzard Remix 2023

    Eddie Izzard: The Remix review – Noah’s Ark, jazz chickens and the Death Star canteen

    Pausing her political campaigning to revisit the routines that made her name, Izzard seems to be enjoying herself as much as we are
  • Eddie Izzard

    Eddie Izzard’s one-person Hamlet coming to New York in 2024

    The actor will play all roles in the Shakespeare play after leading a one-person Great Expectations last year
  • Eddie Izzard

    Standup and be counted: Eddie Izzard and the comics who took politics by storm

    Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn’t be the first standup to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes

October 2023

  • A poster for the 1957 Hammer film starring Peter Cushing.

    Re-vamped: British horror film-makers Hammer and Amicus are back from the dead

    The British studios, which filled screens with bloody fangs, gothic monsters and heaving bosoms, have been resurrected for the 21st century
  • Eddie Izzard as Dr Nina Jekyll.

    Doctor Jekyll review – risible horror leaves Eddie Izzard no place to Hyde

    Joe Stephenson’s updating of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella is a double dose of embarrassment

    • The reader interview
      Eddie Izzard: ‘Why wouldn’t you take me seriously, given everything I’ve done in my life?’

    • Doctor Jekyll review – Eddie Izzard in gender-flipped reboot of Hammer horror

    • The reader interview
      Post your questions for Eddie Izzard

August 2023

  • Eddie Izzard visits Newport to show support for Ruth Jones, in December 2019.

    Eddie Izzard launches plan to become Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion

    Actor and comedian throws her hat into the ring for the East Sussex constituency

May 2023

  • Delicate physical comedy … Eddie Izzard in Great Expectations.

    Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations review – Eddie Izzard seduces in charismatic one-woman show

    Izzard uses humour instinctively, helped by Dickens’s love of the exaggerated or comic grotesque

April 2023

  • ‘Even to throw on a dress was impossible’ … Eddie Izzard.

    ‘I’m going for it like crazy’: Eddie Izzard on her one-woman, 19-role Great Expectations

    After 30 years, the standup star is now finally winning acting plaudits, for a ‘tour de force’ take on Dickens with sharper punchlines – and Hamlet is next

December 2022

  • Eddie Izzard campaigning for Labour In Newport, south Wales, in December 2019

    Eddie Izzard fails in bid to become Labour MP

    Comedian loses out to Abtisam Mohamed, who will stand as party’s candidate in Sheffield Central

October 2022

  • Eddie Izzard.

    Eddie Izzard rules out appearing on all-women Labour MP shortlists

  • Eddie Izzard, longlisted for Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Central, has been the target of transphobic remarks by the Conservative MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, Lee Anderson

    Tory MP under fire for transphobic comments about Eddie Izzard

September 2022

  • Iconic villain … as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

    ‘He got our tortoise a part in Taming of the Shrew’: Alan Rickman remembered by Emma Thompson, Eddie Izzard and more

    Why did Rowan Atkinson infuriate him in Love Actually? Could he have started his own religion? And was Betty the tortoise any good on stage? Stars from Ruby Wax to Richard Curtis remember an acting colossus

July 2022

  • Composite of head shots of Rowan Atkinson and George Bush

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Mr Bean to George Bush via the Wu-Tang Clan?

    With Rowan Atkinson’s Man vs Bee creating a buzz, we follow a swarm of entertainers down the rabbit hole, including Eddie Izzard, Jon Stewart and GZA

January 2022

  • ‘As human as the rest of us’ … Spike Milligan in the 1950s.

    ‘The godfather of alternative comedy’: Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton and more on Spike Milligan

  • Taking on the Calypso section … Eddie Izzard.

    Centenary recording of Ulysses to be read by Eddie Izzard, Margaret Atwood and others

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