- Birthday
- 1934-02-17
- Deathday
- 2023-04-22
- Place of Birth
- Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
Barry Humphries
ActingBiography
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 onl...
