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Barry Humphries (b. 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television
alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed Cultural Attache to Britain. Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning author and an accomplished landscape painter.
Barry Humphries was born in Melbourne. After education at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne he joined the Melbourne Theatre Group, and created the character of Edna Everage in 1956. In the early sixties he moved to London and appeared in several West End productions. He first brought Mrs. Everage to the British stage in 1969 for his one-man show
Just a Show.
Humphries' characters, especially
Dame Edna, have made him a national figure, with numerous stage and television shows.His Barry McKenzie comic strips about Australians in London appeared in Private Eye magazine with drawings by Nicholas Garland. The stories about "Bazza" (also Humphries' nickname) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences, much of it invented by Humphries.He was also the voice of Bruce the Shark in the 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo.
Humphries has been married four times; his fourth wife Lizzie Spender is the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender. He has two sons and two daughters from his third and fourth marriages to Diane Millstead and Lizzie Spender.
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