Bill Irwin
Gender: Male
Born: 11th April 1950 (currently 61 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Sesame Street, Northern Exposure
Movies: Hot Shots!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, My Blue Heaven, Igby Goes Down, Popeye, Lady in the Water, The Laramie Project, Scenes from a Mall, Subway Stories, Rachel Getting Married, Raving, Eight Men Out, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Illuminata, Dark Matter, Silent Tongue, Higher Ground, Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter, Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Wild Wild West, Goldstar, Ohio
William Mills "Bill" Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on Broadway. He is known by children as Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street's Elmo's World.
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 1973 with a degree in theater arts, and from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College the following year. In 1975, he helped found the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco, California. He left the company in 1979, and decided to pursue stage work.
Irwin created a run of highly regarded stage shows that incorporated elements of clowning, often in collaboration with composer Doug Skinner. These works included The Regard of Flight (1982), Largely New York (1989), Fool Moon (1993), The Harlequin Studies (2003), and Mr. Fox: A Rumination (2004). Mr. Fox is a production that Irwin has worked on for years, a
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