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  • Izzard unrecognised as transvestite in U.S. - 9 November 2009
    -Eddie Izzard struggles to convince Americans he's a transvestite after toning down his cross-dressing while concentrating on his acting career.- -Izzard's prominence has increased in the U.S. after roles in TV series The Riches and 2008 thriller Valkyrie - but he adm


  • Valkyrie: Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard interview - 8 June 2009
    - -We caught up with LOVEFiLM favourites Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard to talk about WWII drama and Tom Cruise vehicle, Valkyrie. Based on true events, it sees Nighy and Izzard play German Generals embroiled in a trap to kill Hitler. They gave us the lowdown on the c

Eddie Izzard - what members say


  • Eddie Izzard - Circle
  • Eddie Izzard - Circle review by A customer from SE London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Excellent 19 March 2004
    ...If you like any Eddie Izzard you must see this. It does start slow but the New York audience is tough and there were problems with the sound at the live show which didn't h...   Read customer review
  • Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
  • Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill review by from BIRMINGHAM
    Rated - 5.0 stars 12 February 2004
    ...Eddie Izzard is truly one of the funniest comedians England has produced. This is a masterpice of humour and should only be watched if you have a hanky and a change of unde...   Read customer review
  • Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill
  • Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill review by from Shrewsbury
    Rated - 4.0 stars A goodbye to Spike 24 August 2004
    ... and is aided by such personalities as John Sargeant, Paul Merton, Terry Jones, Eddie Izzard who genuinely seemed to be fans. A tribute in the vain that I think Spike would...   Read customer review

Eddie Izzard - filmography


  • Treasure Island (2012)
    Starring: Philip Glenister,  Eddie Izzard,  Toby Regbo
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in the dangerous world of buccaneers, this new adaption of the much loved Robert Louis Stevenson classic "Treasure Island" will take viewers on a high octane adventure following the story of Jim Hawkins as he discovers Flint's treasure map. The two part drama follows the story of Jim Hawkins ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 73 members
    Due for release on 9th July 2012
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  • Treasure Island - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Philip Glenister,  Eddie Izzard,  Toby Regbo
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in the dangerous world of buccaneers, this new adaption of the much loved Robert Louis Stevenson classic "Treasure Island" will take viewers on a high octane adventure following the story of Jim Hawkins as he discovers Flint's treasure map. The two part drama follows the story of Jim Hawkins ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7 members
    Not available for rental
  • Lost Christmas (2011)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Larry Mills,  Jason Flemming
    Director: John Hay
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An urban fairytale from the backstreets of Manchester. It is Christmas Eve and everyone is getting ready for the big day; everyone that is, except Anthony, a strange, enigmatic being who wakes up in the street, not knowing where he is or what he's here to do. But Anthony has a remarkable ability: ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 17 members
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  • Day Of The Triffids on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Dougray Scott,  Joely Richardson,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Nick Copus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A modern day adaptation of John Wyndham's best-selling iconic novel, which brings his terrifying creation of carnivorous plant species to life in a CGI extravaganza, supported by a sensational all-star cast that includes Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Vanessa Redgrave and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,852 member
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  • Believe - The Eddie Izzard Story on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Director: Sarah Townsend
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Believe chronicles comedian Eddie Izzard's rise to fame from his early influences - losing his mother to cancer at a young age before being sent with his brother to boarding school to his close present day relationship with his supportive father.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 345 members
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  • Rage on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jude Law,  Judi Dench,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Sally Potter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Expose of the inner lives of a group of people who work at a New York fashion house. Shot as though from a cellphone camera, events begin to unfold over a seven day period that turn what appeared to be a runway accident into a potential murder.
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 710 members
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  • Across The Universe on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood,  Joe Anderson,  Jim Sturgess
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Beatles' songs may have provided the soundtrack for the lives of those coming of age in the 1960s, but their extensive catalogue acts as the literal soundtrack in this romantic musical from visionary director Julie Taymor. Newcomer Jim Sturgess stars as Jude, a young man working on the docks in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,404 members
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  • Ocean's Thirteen on DVD (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Brad Pitt,  Matt Damon
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    After their old chum Reuben Tischkoff (Gould) is double-crossed in a business deal and hospitalized, Danny Ocean (Clooney) reconvenes his charming gang of thieves and heads to Las Vegas to gain revenge on the man who put Ruben at death's door: shark-like hotelier, Willy Bank (Pacino). Their plan is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 67,688 members
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  • The Wild on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kiefer Sutherland,  James Belushi,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Steve 'Spaz' Williams
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back. With the voice talents of Kiefer Sutherland as Samson, Eddie Izzard as Nigel, James Belushi as Benny, Janeane Garolfalo as Bridget and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 19,470 members
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  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Luke Wilson,  Wanda Sykes
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) has dealt with his share of difficult women, but when he meets bookish beauty Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman), his instincts tell him this one is a whole new kind of trouble. After initially playing hard to get, Jenny quickly latches onto Matt, professing her love to him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 43,571 members
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  • Five Children And It (2004)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Zoe Wanamaker,  Freddie Highmore
    Director: John Stephenson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives, when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true... at a price.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 16,980 members
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  • 40 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugo Speer,  Mark Benton,  Vincent Regan
    Director: David Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the pen of Bryan Elsley (SKINS, THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCK STAR) 40 is a provocative three-part drama about sex, secrets and growing old disgracefully. When seven school friends meet up on the eve of the their 40th birthdays, they find that some have more in common than just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 84 members
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  • Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Harry Enfield,  Eddie Izzard,  Terry Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's a mystery how a man who called Prince Charles a 'groveling little bastard' on live TV would somehow end up on the Prince's list of favorite comedians, but that was the beauty of Spike Milligan. When the man Eddie Izzard called the founder of modern comedy died in 2002, he was mourned the world ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 522 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Sexie on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Ireland and the UK, this tour was performed to more people than there are in Iceland (280,000). Filmed in Eastbourne where his grandfather and father were born and where he went to school, this show is the funniest live show that could ever be performed ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,670 members
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  • QI - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Stephen Fry,  Alan Davies,  Bill Bailey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hosted by Stephen Fry, with permanent guest Alan Davies, Quite Interesting - or QI to its friends - is the comedy panel quiz where the answers are infinitely more entertaining than the questions. With points being awarded for being interesting or funny, each show promises to be a hugely ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 1,495 member
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  • Revengers Tragedy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Eddie Izzard,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on play by Thomas Middleton from the year 1607, writer/director Alex Cox (REPO MAN) gives us a comic horror story. Marrying 17th Century theatrical verse with some contemporary references and expletives, the story is dragged 400 years to modern day Liverpool where a man is seeking revenge ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 827 members
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  • Cat's Meow (2002)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Edward Herrmann,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In November 1924, multimillionaire William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann) hosts a weekend of festivities aboard his 220-foot steamer in honor of filmmaker Thomas Ince's (Cary Elwes) birthday. It seems that everyone on board wants something from Hearst. Ince and his partner, George Thomas (Victor ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,735 members
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  • All The Queen's Men on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Matt Le Blanc,  James Cosmo
    Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Matt LeBlanc (of the television series FRIENDS) stars in this WWII spy comedy as American Officer Steven O'Rourke, nicknamed "Agent Almost" because he can never successfully complete a mission. Stationed in England after another botched mission, O'Rourke is given one last "do or die" assignment to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 841 members
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  • We Know Where You Live on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Harry Enfield,  Paul Whitehouse
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Eddie Izzard hosts this amazing night of comedy and music at Wembley Arena. Comedians include Dom Joly, Harry Enfield, and Paul Whitehouse; musical acts include U2, Badly Drawn Boy, Tom Jones, and Stereophonics. The release features backstage and rehearsal footage, as well as additional ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 579 members
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  • Shadow Of The Vampire on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Malkovich,  Willem Dafoe,  Cary Elwes
    Director: E. Elias Merhige
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    E. Elias Mehrige's SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE explores the fictional premise that the star of director F.W. Murnau's 1922 German expressionist horror film, NOSFERATU, was an actual vampire. When the dictatorial Murnau (John Malkovich) sets about filming his monster masterpiece, he makes a Faustian deal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,036 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Circle on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Eddie Izzard, the self-proclaimed "executive transvestite" and comedian, takes his magnificent stand-up act to America for this performance recorded in New York, 26 June 2000. Izzard is a thinking man's comedian--his subjects can range from the nature of God, to the search for a career, to Scooby ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5,418 members
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  • Circus on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Hannah,  Eddie Izzard,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Rob Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Conman Leo Garfield and his glamorous wife Lily are the coolest couple in town. They dream of an escape from the drudgery of everyday crime - they want a one-way boat trip to Cuba. Together, they mastermind the most audacious scam. Drawn into their web is an assortment of loud and tasteless ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 649 members
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  • The Criminal on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Steven Mackintosh,  Holly Aird,  Natasha Little
    Director: Julian Simpson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    J leads an uninteresting life so can't believe his luck when one night after drinking in a bar he finds himself with a mysterious blonde drinking vodka at two in the morning back at his place. Little does he realise that his good fortune is about to lead him into a world of murder, extortion and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 207 members
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  • Mystery Men on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Hank Azaria,  Claire Forlani,  Janeane Garofalo
    Director: Kinka Usher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the Dark Horse comic, Mystery Men. Seven lame superhero wannabes, who are called upon to use their dubious "powers" to save a bustling metropolis when Champion City's beloved real superhero-protector, Captain Amazing, is kidnapped. The wannabe heroes square off against the vile villain, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,784 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Director: Larry Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This award-winning performance, recorded in San Francisco in 1998, continues Eddie Izzard's comedic observations on everything from the history of Western culture to sex, filtered through his razor-sharp wit and lightning-quick chain of associations. And he looks smashing in a dress.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,768 members
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  • Velvet Goldmine on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Toni Collette,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: Todd Haynes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Loosely based on the experiences and personalities of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, VELVET GOLDMINE is a wild, glitter-laced trip through the 1970s era of glam rock. Fictional characters Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) are personifications of glam rock's ideals, with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4,776 members
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  • Eddie Izzard - Unrepeatable on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Eddie Izzard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedian Eddie Izzard entertains an appreciative audience at the Albery Theatre in London, March, 1994.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,980 members
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  • Kitchen on DVD
    Starring: Eddie Izzard,  Frank Gallagher,  James Young
    Director: Kieron J. Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny Swift narrowly escapes a prison sentence by taking a job as a commis-chef in a top Glaswegian restaurant. The language is coarse and some of Danny's co-workers are decidedly shady to say the least, but the team is pushed to the height of its ability, under the watchful eye of the chef, nick (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 200 members
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  • The Best Comedy DVD In The World on DVD
    Starring: Peter Kay,  Tommy Cooper,  Eddie Izzard
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Provides a compilation of some of the greatest comedy moments from Stand Up, Television and Film. Includes clips from: 'Bo Selecta', 'Little Britain', 'The Office', 'Monty Python', 'Only Fools And Horses', 'Carry On' and much much more. All profits from the sale of this video will be donated to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,334 member
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Eddie Izzard facts

5 most recent films

Treasure Island - 3.5 stars
Treasure Island - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Lost Christmas - 4.0 stars
Every Day - 3.0 stars
Huge - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

QI - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Definite Article - 4.0 stars
Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill - 3.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Glorious - 3.5 stars
Eddie Izzard - Unrepeatable - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Every Day - 3.0 stars
Renegade - 3.0 stars
Treasure Island - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Lost Christmas - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stephen Fry - 5 times - show films
Vanessa Redgrave - 4 times - show films
Dougray Scott - 4 times - show films
Joely Richardson - 4 times - show films
Ewen Bremner - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 11 times - show films
Guy Ferland - 5 times - show films
Brian Kirk - 5 times - show films
Dmi - 5 times - show films
Peter O'Fallon - 5 times - show films