Eddie enrolled at the University of Sheffield for a degree in Accounting. However, he toyed with the idea of being a performer & took his art to the streets & became a street performer in the initial days, touring Europe & USA in the 1980s. He then moved his art to Britain where, her performed his first gig at the Banana Cabaret in London. He had crafted his art of street theatre & comedy club into Stand-Up comedy.

As his biography reveals, he eventually got his big break through his performance for Hysteria 3 at Fry & Laurie, which was an AIDS benefit program. Eddie, later on gained popularity with One-Man comedy stage show Live at the Ambassadors in 1993. He received a Laurence Olivier nomination and his first British Comedy Award for the show. In 1994, he made a comeback with Unrepeatable (1994), followed by his debut in David Mamet’s West End Drama The Cryptogram which landed him a role in 900 Oneonta which was a black humor comedy.

Eddie went on to play Edward II in Christopher Marlowe’s Pathbreaking Edward II. Eddie made his debut in the movies by starring in The Secret Agent in 1996. The same year saw him winning his second British Comedy Award for another one-man stage show Definite Article in 1996. Following the immense popularity, Eddie took the show on tour to various cities. On his return from the tour he penned another two shows called Glorious & One Word Improv and performed it at the West End. Velvet Goldmine (1998) gave Eddie another swing at the movies. The same year saw him appearing briefly with the Monty Python team. Eddie penned his groundbreaking one man show called Dress to Kill (1999) which eventually led him to winning two Emmys in 2000.

By the end of 2000, Eddie had secured the lead role of comedian Lenny Bruce in Peter Hall’s Lenny. In the same year, he started his tour of his one-man stage show Circle, while continuing to star in movies and TV shows like The Criminal, Shadow of the Vampire (2000), as Charlie Chaplin in The Cat’s Meow (2001) & as the lead of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2002). Eddie, owing to his great performances landed in the lead for The Riches (2007) on FX which went on two seasons. Eddie has made noteworthy appearances in various movies and TV shows like The Ocean’s Twelve & Ocean’s Thirteen, Valkyrie, My Super Ex-Girlfriend & voice over for The Wild (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) & the more recent Cars 2 (2011), The Day of the Triffids (2009), United States of Tara, Hannibal (2013-2015).

Eddie describes himself as a British-European & with his Pro-EU stand has worked for the further integration of UK into the European Union for which he received a Honorary Doctors Of Letters From the University of East Anglia & University of Sheffield.

His net worth is pegged at $18 million. With 4.58 Million followers, he is widely followed on Twitter under his handle @eddieizzard.