Early Life
Izzard was born in Aden in Yemen, then known as the Colony of Aden in the Aden Protectorate. He was the younger son of British parents Dorothy Ella, a midwife and nurse, and Harold John Izzard, an accountant who was working in Aden with British Petroleum. A year after his birth, the family moved to Bangor in Northern Ireland and lived there until he was five. The family then moved to Skewen in Wales, where his mother died of cancer when Izzard was six and his brother Mark was eight. Following his mother's death, Izzard attended boarding schools such as St John's School, St. Bede's Prep School, and Eastbourne College. Izzard has said that he knew he was a transvestite at age four, after watching another boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters, and that he knew he wanted to be an actor at age seven.
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