Barry Humphries, the Australian-born comic, actor and satirist who was finest identified for his TV Drag persona, Dame Edna Everage, has died. He was 89 years outdated.
The information of his demise was confirmed in a tweet by Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, who known as Humphries “the brightest star” within the galaxy of his nice characters.
Humphries embodied Dame Edna for almost seven many years in quite a few TV sequence and specials in the US, Australia, Britain and past. Within the U.S., the character starred in her personal mock speak present, Dame Edna’s Hollywood. The NBC sequence’ three episodes spanned from 1991-1993. She appeared in different TV sequence together with Dame Edna’s Neighborhood Watch, Saturday Night time Reside, Ally McBeal and The Life and Demise of Sandy Stone.
Humphries’ Dame Edna was so ubiquitous that she appeared as a visitor on quite a few daytime and late evening speak exhibits. She appeared in six episodes of The Tonight Present With Jay Leno from 2001-11 and visited The View in 2004 and 2010. In 2005, she appeared on Reside With Regis and Kelly and The Tony Danza Present. Three years later she was a visitor on The Graham Norton Present and in 2009, she visited The Late Late Present With Craig Ferguson.
Along with Dame Edna, Humphris was identified for taking part in Sir Les Patterson, a person who served as Dame Edna’s reverse.
