Her role as a bourgeois woman with purple hair was iconic in the Anglo-Saxon world.
He played a bourgeois woman with lilac-colored hair living in an affluent suburb. The Australian comedian Barry Humphries, particularly known in the Anglo-Saxon world for his character of Dame Edna Everage died on Saturday April 22 at the age of 89 in Sydney, her agent announced. Australians had seen him appear on stage in Melbourne in 1955, before landing roles on television in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
In 2002, the character of Dame Edna presented the show given at Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Elizabeth II who was celebrating her golden jubilee. “He remained himself until the end, never losing his brilliant mind, his unique humor, or his generosity of spirit”, said his agent.
Roles in “Finding Nemo” and “The Hobbit”
Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, for his part paid tribute to this actor who was “both gifted and generous”. “Barry Humphries made us laugh through a whole galaxy of characters, from Dame Edna to Sandy Stone”another of his characters, a stuffy old bourgeois, he added, referring to “a wonderful humorist, satirist, writer, and someone absolutely unique”.
For 89 years, Barry Humphries entertained us through a galaxy of personas, from Dame Edna to Sandy Stone.
But the brightest star in that galaxy was always Barry.
A great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind, he was both gifted and a gift.
May he rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/oSAKpxPGae
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) April 22, 2023
Barry Humphries also played the Goblin King in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, released in 2012, and was the voice of Bruce Shark in The world of Nemoreleased in 2003, reports the New York Times (article in English).