Eddie Izzard

Frequently imitates James Mason and Sean Connery during her stand-up comedy routine
Often wears her choice of "male" and "female" clothing during her stand-up acts

In August and September of 2009, Eddie ran marathons around the UK to raise money for Sport Relief, a biennial charity event run by Comic Relief (in association with BBC Sport). The route took her from London, England, to Cardiff, Wales, then to Belfast, Northern Ireland, then to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then finally back to London. She ran approximately 30 miles per day, for a total of about 1100 miles.
She speaks French and German with such fluency that she has performed multiple comedy shows entirely in those languages.
As of 2017, she has performed her stand-up gigs in over forty countries, in four languages (English, German, French, and Spanish).
She uses three distinct voices in most of her one-person shows: God (James Mason), Sean Connery (several, including Noah), and "Mrs. Badcrumble" (a Scottish clarinet teacher). In real life, Mrs. Badcrumble was Eddie's childhood piano teacher.
Her admirers include John Cleese and former Doctor Who (1963) star Tom Baker. During the television special Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python (1999), which Izzard hosted, Cleese said that Izzard was the lost Python. Baker championed Izzard to play the Doctor when the Doctor Who series was revived in 2005. He described Izzard as "so mysterious and strange".

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman -- and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.
I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.
My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.
When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.