Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries AO (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 attaché 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.

External links

• Official Australian Cultural Site on Humphries
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• Playbill Biography
• 2000 Tony Award Listing
• National Broadway Theatre Awards
• University of Melbourne Doctorate announcement
• Banff Television