In a purple wig, garish outfits and outrageous spectacles, Barry Humphries was instantly recognisable as Dame Edna Everage. Modelled on a suburban housewife in 1955, over the decades Dame Edna ...
the Dame Edna Everage Experience, in the late 1980s. His other personas included the lecherous drunk Sir Les Patterson. In a statement, his family remembered him as "completely himself until the ...
A veteran of stage and screen, Humphries entertained generations with his satirical characters including the high camp of Dame Edna and the offensive cultural attache Sir Les Patterson.
A pair of Dame Edna Everage's sparkly specs are among ... and offensive cultural attache Sir Les Patterson. But he also performed in West End shows such as Maggie May and Oliver!, ...