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Eddie Izzard
His breakthrough in the US, though, didn't come until 1999, when his show Dress to Kill was aired on HBO, about a year after he performed it on tour in the US, the UK and France. In January 2006, the US TV network FX announced a new drama series called The Riches, which was co-written by Izzard. Izzard and actress Minnie Driver star as a married couple, Wayne and Delilah Malloy, who were part of a caravan of Irish con-artist travelers who swindled their way across the US with their children. They come across another family killed in a car accident, assume their identities and start living a law-abiding life in Baton Rouge, LA. He was also in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen briefly as an expert con-man. Izzard started using Wikipedia in his stand-up act, reading from a live copy of one of its articles via an iPhone and mocked its self-referential editorial style. He has currently read from these articles: herring, spoon, thumbtack, jam, Bristol Stool Scale, Battle of Prestonpans, Ho Chi Minh, Kelvin, J.R.R. Tolkien and more.
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Artist Biography - Eddie Izzard
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 Edward John "Eddie" Izzard, born February 7, 1962 in Aden, Yemen, is a two-time Emmy-winning English stand-up comedian and actor. His style of comedy is articulated in a wordy, quirky monologue and self-referential pantomime. Besides touring, he also acts on TV, the stage and in movies; he's also active in charity work. When he was a year-old, his family moved to Britain; his mother died of cancer in March of 1968. Izzard found a degree of comfort in comedy after his mother's death. He drew it particularly from the work of Monty Python, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and the early Benny Hill. He spent a lot of time as a street performer in Europe and the US in the 1980s and then moved his act into stand-up comedy venues in Britain; he first performed in 1987 at London's The Comedy Store.
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