Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3004
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Suzy Eddie Izzard represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Suzy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Suzy Eddie Izzard appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Suzy. Abominable is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Laura Blount, Anthony Bell, Linda Mendoza and others, Suzy Eddie Izzard helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Abominable (2019) as Burnish (voice) · The Lego Batman Movie (2017) as Voldemort (voice) · The High Note (2020) as Dan Deakins
Career snapshot
Ranked #3004 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
1998–2025
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Abominable
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Abominable
Most frequent director
Laura Blount
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Laura Blount
Most common genre
Comedy
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Abominable, The Song of Names, Get Duked! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Mystery Men, Velvet Goldmine, The Avengers.
Most productive era
2000s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.82 films | 6.71 film | 6.53 films |
| Action | 5.22 films | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Thriller | 4.51 film | 6.83 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 5.22 films | 5.73 films | 6.66 films | 5.94 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | 5.62 films | — | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.32 films | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Velvet Goldmine
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jerry Devine.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Abominable
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Self.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
28 of 28 films
as Burnish (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Voldemort (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Thomas Miller
Directed by Andy Goddard
as Dan Deakins
Directed by Nisha Ganatra
as Radio Presenter
Directed by François Girard
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Burnish (voice)
Abominable (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Burnish (voice) gives Suzy Eddie Izzard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Voldemort (voice)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Performance score7.2
The Lego Batman Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Voldemort (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thomas Miller
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Performance score6.9
Six Minutes to Midnight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thomas Miller is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dan Deakins
The High Note (2020)
Performance score6.9
The High Note asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dan Deakins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Burnish (voice)
Start here. Abominable is the clearest statement of what Suzy Eddie Izzard does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Suzy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
Same director as Abominable, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Song of Names (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Lego Batman Movie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Song of Names but asks for a colder reading of it.
The High Note (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Six Minutes to Midnight but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together
Notably The Avengers
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Velvet Goldmine
John Turturro
Director
1 film together
Notably Romance & Cigarettes
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Valkyrie
Andrew Adamson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
John Lasseter
Director
1 film together
Notably Cars 2
Terry Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Anything
Ash Brannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Rock Dog
François Girard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Song of Names
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together
Notably The High Note
Andy Goddard
Director
1 film together
Notably Six Minutes to Midnight
Linda Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
Anthony Bell
Director
1 film together
Notably Rock Dog 3: Battle the Beat
Laura Blount
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Stanley Baxter
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nisha Ganatra
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The High NoteBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ValkyrieAndrew Adamson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince CaspianFrançois Girard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Song of NamesTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Velvet GoldmineJohn Lasseter
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cars 2Ash Brannon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rock DogAndy Goddard
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Six Minutes to MidnightAnthony Bell
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rock Dog 3: Battle the BeatJohn Turturro
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romance & CigarettesTerry Jones
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely AnythingIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Super Ex-GirlfriendJeremiah S. Chechik
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AvengersLinda Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ CelebrationLaura Blount
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being Stanley BaxterSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Abominable
as Burnish (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The High Note
as Dan Deakins
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Abominable
as Burnish (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Lego Batman Movie
as Voldemort (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Abominable
as Burnish (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Suzy Eddie Izzard has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
27 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
15 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Abominable
as Burnish (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ocean's Thirteen
as Roman Nagel
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Midas Man
as Allan Williams
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Ocean's Thirteen
as Roman Nagel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Lego Batman Movie
as Voldemort (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mystery Men
as Tony P
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rock Dog
as Angus Scattergood (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cars 2
as Sir Miles Axlerod (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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