Billy Thomas Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted...
Billy Thomas Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has also made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on Broadway. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on the Sesame Street segment Elmo's World, has appeared in the Sesame Street film short Does Air Move Things?, and regularly appeared as a therapist on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as his recurring role as "The Dick & Jane Killer" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Irwin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Elizabeth (née Mills), a teacher, and Horace G. Irwin, an aerospace engineer. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1974 and attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College the following year. In 1975, he helped found the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco, California. He credits his experience with the Circus, performing in schools under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), as having made him a working artist. In 1979, Irwin left the company to pursue stage work.
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EDDIE IZZARD
Eddie Izzard (/ˈɪzɑːrd/; born 7 February 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambl...
Eddie Izzard (/ˈɪzɑːrd/; born 7 February 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.
Her stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), and Force Majeure (2013). She starred in the 2007 television series The Riches and has appeared in numerous films including Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat's Meow, and Valkyrie. She has also worked as a voice actor on films such as Five Children and It, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Abominable, and the Netflix original series Green Eggs and Ham. Among various accolades, Izzard won two Primetime Emmys for Dress to Kill and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
In 2009, she completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. In 2016, she ran 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honour of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. Regularly performing in French, among other languages, Izzard is an active supporter of Europeanism and the European Union. A dedicated Labour Party activist, she twice ran unsuccessfully for the party's National Executive Committee but temporarily joined as runner-up after Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018. Izzard is genderfluid and has said she prefers 'she' and 'her' pronouns, but " mind" 'he' and 'him'.
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