Barry Humphries

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his onstage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of Londons West End musical theatre, an awardwinning 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 the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin.

Humphries was born in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Eric Humphries, a construction manager, and his wife Louisa. His grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from Manchester, England. His father was welltodo and Barry grew up in a clean, tasteful, and modern home in Christowel Street Camberwell, then one of Melbournes new garden suburbs. His early home life set the pattern for his eventual stage career his parents bought him everything he wanted, but his father in particular spent little time with him, and Humphries spent hours playing at dressingup in the back garden.

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