Barry Humphries

Birth Name:

John Barry Humphries

Birth Place:

Kew, Melbourne, Australia

Profession

Actor, Writer, Soundtrack, Producer, Camera department

At the 1999 British Comedy Awards he received a Lifetime Achievement Award
On the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of his character Dame Edna Everage, a special silver Australian one-dollar coin was issued in her honor
The Barry Award, an annual trophy and cash prize presented to the best comedy act at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, is named for him
Quote: "(On the widespread assumption that his 2006 show would be his last) "I wonder what they mean․ I suppose they mean I can't go on forever, but whenever people ask me, 'How do you do so much?' I say, 'How do you do so little?'""
A comic strip character he created, Barry McKenzie, became so popular that two successful Australian comedy films were made about him
He appeared as Estragon in Australia's first stage production of the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot․"
He is best known for creating his alter-egos Dame Edna Everage, a flamboyant Australian housewife and talk-show host, and Sir Les Patterson, an outrageously crude Australian cultural attaché

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