Inside Eddie Izzard's Fortune: Eddie Izzard's Assets & Salary & Career Highlights Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

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What Is Eddie Izzard's Net Worth?

Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director who has a net worth of $20 million. Eddie Izzard is genderfluid and uses "she/her" pronouns. Eddie won two Primetime Emmys for the 1998 comedy special "Dress to Kill," and she has also released the specials "Live at the Ambassadors" (1993), "Unrepeatable" (1994), "Definite Article" (1996), "Glorious" (1997), "Circle" (2002), "Sexie" (2003), "Stripped" (2009), "Live at Madison Square Garden" (2011), "Force Majeure" (2013), and "Wunderbar" (2022). Izzard starred as Wayne Malloy / Doug Rich on the FX series "The Riches" (2007–2008), and she has more than 70 acting credits to her name, including the films "Velvet Goldmine" (1998), "Mystery Men" (1999), "The Cat's Meow" (2001), "All the Queen's Men" (2001), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (2006), "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007), and "Across the Universe" (2007) and the television series "United States of Tara" (2011), "Bullet in the Face" (2012), "Hannibal" (2013–2015), "Powers" (2015), "The Lost Symbol" (2021–present), and "Stay Close" (2021).

Eddie has lent her voice to numerous animated projects, such as "The Wild" (2006), "Igor" (2008), "Cars 2" (2011), "Rock Dog" (2016), "The Lego Batman Movie" (2017), "Abominable" (2019), "The Simpsons" (2010), and "Green Eggs and Ham" (2019). She has produced most of her comedy specials, and she directed 2002's "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Circle," a rough-cut of "Dress to Kill" in Paris that was performed in French. Izzard also produced "The Riches" and the films "Lost Christmas" (2011), "Get Duked!" (2019), and "Six Minutes to Midnight" (2020), and she wrote "Six Minutes to Midnight" and the 2003 TV miniseries "Mongrel Nation." Eddie has appeared in Broadway productions of "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (2003) and "Race" (2010), earning a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play for "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg." In 2017, Izzard published the book "Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens." Eddie was ranked #5 on the British TV network Channel 4's "100 Greatest Comedy Stand-ups of All Time" list in 2010.

Early Life

Eddie Izzard was born Edward John Izzard on February 7, 1962, in, Aden, Yemen. Eddie's parents, Dorothy and Harold, were English, and she has an older brother named Mark. Dorothy was a nurse and midwife, and Harold, an accountant, was working for British Petroleum in Aden when Izzard was born. The family relocated to Ireland when Eddie was a baby, and they lived in Bangor until she was 5 years old. They then moved to Skewen, Wales. Sadly, Dorothy passed away from cancer when Izzard was just 6 years old, and when she was ill, Eddie and Mark occupied their time by building a model railway. In 2016, Izzard donated it to Bexhill Museum in East Sussex. Eddie attended Newton's St John's School, Eastbourne's St Bede's Prep School, and Eastbourne College, then she enrolled at the  University of Sheffield to study drama. Izzard has said that as a child, she knew she was transgender after seeing a video of girls forcing their brother to wear a dress. She stated, "I must have been four or five, and there was laughter, mocking. I remember thinking, 'That sounds pretty good to me, I'd be quite happy to be a girl, what's going on there?'"

Career

When Eddie was at university, she began performing comedy on the street with her friend Rob Ballard, and in the early '80s, she was a street performer in the U.S. and Europe. Izzard later started performing at Britain's stand-up comedy venues, beginning with London's Banana Cabaret. In 1989, she opened her own comedy club, Raging Bull, at Raymond's Revue Bar in Soho. Eddie had her breakthrough when she performed for the 1991 Hysteria 3 AIDS benefit, which was televised. Izzard speaks French fluently, and she has performed comedy in French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian. In 1994, she played the lead role in a West End production ofDavid Mamet's"The Cryptogram," followed by a starring turn in a 1995 production of Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II." Izzard appeared in the TV movies "Open Fire" (1994) and "Aristophanes: The Gods are Laughing" (1995) and the films "The Oncoming Storm" (1995), "The Secret Agent" (1996), "Velvet Goldmine" (1998), "The Avengers" (1998), and "The Criminal" (1999), and she guest-starred on "Tales from the Crypt" in 1996. In 1999, she co-starred withBen Stiller,Hank Azaria,William H. Macy, andJaneane Garofaloin the superhero comedy "Mystery Men" and portrayed Lenny Bruce in a production of Julian Barry's "Lenny."

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