Dame Edna Everage actor Barry Humphries dead at 89

As Dame Edna, Humphries wrote several books, including an autobiography, “My Gorgeous Life,” and appeared in several other films and television shows.

Barry Humphries, the Tony-winning comic actor behind the snobbish diva Dame Edna Everage, died Saturday at a hospital in Syndey, Australia.

She was meant to reflect a postwar suburban inertia and cultural blandness that Humphries found stifling, and he expected the role to be a one-week-long stand. Two years later, then-Australian Prime Minister Gou”gh Whitlam appeared in the sequel, “Barry McKenzie Holds His Own,” granting a damehood to Edna.

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