Barry Humphries

Personal Info

Birthday

February 17, 1934

Day of Death

2023-04-22

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia

Also Known As

Dame Edna Everage

John Barry Humphries

Edna Everage

Les Patterson

Barry McKenzie

Sandy Stone

Bazza McKenzie

Barry Humphries

Biography

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's.

He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he had appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows.