AKA: Sandy Stone, Sir Les Patterson, Lance Boyle, Dame Edna Everage, Barry Mackenzie
Nationality: Australian
Birthdate: 02/17/1934
Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia
biography
At one time hailed as the strongest proponent of Dada in Australia, the multi-talented Barry Humphries has excelled as a character actor in Europe and Australia and has become one of the best loved landscape painters Down Under, but his fame rests on the Melbourne housewife he first created in connection with the Olympic Games back in 1956. Since then, Dame Edith Everage has commandeered the actor's life, blooming into an international phenomenon, a wonderful parody of celebrity and self-obsession. He delivered his first Dadaist experiments in anarchy and visual satire against the conservative
Had his first Dada exhibition while a university student
1956
Created the character of Mrs. Everage, a Melbourne housewife who would evolve into the celebrated Dame Edna, for a sketch in connection with Melbourne's Olympic Games
Joined Sydney's Philip Street Theatre, where he appeared as Estragon in "Waiting for Godot", the first Australian production of a Samuel Beckett play
1958
Created the character of Sandy Stone, a kind of eustralian Beckett figure, as a scathing satire of suburban boredom
