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She is also well known for her outlandish spectacles. Barry Humphries has claimed that they were inspired by the glasses worn by Melbourne eccentric, beautician, radio broadcaster, actor and dancer Stephanie Deste ; as were many other aspects of Dame Edna's personality. As the character evolved, Edna's unseen family became an integral part of the satire, particularly the travails of her invalid husband Norm, who suffered from an almost lifelong onslaught of an unspecified prostate ailment. Her daughter Valmai and her gay-hairdresser son Kenny became intrinsic elements of the act, as did her long-suffering best friend and New Zealand bridesmaid, Madge Allsop.

Perry has the distinction of being the only other actor ever to appear on stage with Humphries in his stage shows, as well as making regular appearances in Dame Edna's TV programmes.

Dame Edna is notable as one of the few satirical characters to make a successful transition from stage to TV without losing popularity in either genre. The talk show format provided a perfect outlet for Humphries' rapier wit and his legendary ability to ad-lib, and it enabled Edna to draw on a wide and appreciative pool of fans among fellow actors and comedians, with scores of top-rank stars lining up to be lampooned on her shows. As other Australian actors have begun to make a wider impression in international film and television, Edna has not hesitated to reveal that it was her mentorship which helped "kiddies" like "little Nicole Kidman " to achieve their early success.

He is the polar opposite of Dame Edna; she a culturally aspirational Protestant from Melbourne and he a culture-free Roman Catholic from Sydney. Humphries' character, Sandy Stone , is an elderly Australian man, either single or married with a daughter who died as a child. Humphries said in that "slowly the character has deepened, so I begin to understand and appreciate him, and finally feel myself turning into him". He no longer requires makeup for the part, and plays Sandy in his own dressing gown.

These enormously popular programs have since been repeated worldwide and the special A Night on Mount Edna won Humphries the Golden Rose of Montreux in Edna's most recent television special was Dame Edna Live at the Palace in In Dame Edna guest-starred on the U. In May , Australia's ABC Network announced that Humphries would be joining the cast of Australian telemovie series, Jack Irish , playing a high-profile judge in the third movie in the series.

Asked by an Australian journalist what it was like to win a Tony Award , he said "it was like winning a thousand Gold Logies at the same time". Dame Edna's new-found success in America led to many media opportunities, including a semi-regular role in the hit TV series Ally McBeal.

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Vanity Fair magazine invited Dame Edna to write a satirical advice column in although after an outcry following a remark about learning Spanish , the column was discontinued. Humphries has been married four times. His first marriage, to Brenda Wright, took place when he was 21 and lasted less than two years. He has two daughters, Tessa and Emily, and two sons, Oscar and Rupert, from his second and third marriages, to Rosalind Tong and Diane Millstead respectively.

His elder son [34] Oscar was editor of the art magazine Apollo [35] [36] and a contributing editor at The Spectator. They live in a terraced town house in West Hampstead , his home for forty years.

In the s, throughout his sojourn in London, Humphries became increasingly dependent on alcohol and by the last years of the decade his friends and family began to fear that his addiction might cost him his career or even his life. His status as 'a dissolute, guilt-ridden, self-pitying boozer' was undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the failure of his first marriage and was a contributing factor to the collapse of the second. Humphries' alcoholism reached a crisis point during a visit home to Australia in the early s.

His parents finally had him admitted to a private hospital to 'dry out' when, after a particularly heavy binge, he was found bashed and unconscious in a gutter. He was one of the many friends who tried in vain to help Peter Cook , who himself eventually died from alcohol-related illnesses.

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Humphries was a good friend of the English poet John Betjeman until Betjeman's death in Their friendship began in after Betjeman, while visiting Australia, heard some of Humphries' early recordings and wrote very favourably of them in an Australian newspaper. Their friendship was, in part, based around numerous shared interests, including Victorian architecture , Cornwall and the music hall. Humphries appears in the documentary Chalky about his longtime friend and colleague Michael White , who produced many of Humphries' first Dame Edna shows in the UK.

Other notable friends of Humphries include the Australian painter Arthur Boyd , [42] the author and former politician Jeffrey Archer , whom Humphries visited during Archer's stay in prison, [43] and the Irish comedian Spike Milligan. Humphries has spent much of his life immersed in music, literature and the arts. A self-proclaimed 'bibliomaniac', his house in West Hampstead , London supposedly contains some 25, books, many of them first editions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He is a prominent art collector who has, as a result of his three divorces, bought many of his favourite paintings four times. He at one time had the largest private collection of the paintings of Charles Conder in the world [46] and he is a great lover of the Flemish symbolist painter Jan Frans De Boever , relishing his role as 'President for Life' of the De Boever Society.

He is a lover of avant-garde music and a patron of, among others, the French composer Jean-Michel Damase and the Melba Foundation in Australia. Cultural historian Tony Moore, author of The Barry McKenzie Movies , writes of Humphries' personal politics thus: "A conservative contrarian while many in his generation were moving left, Humphries nevertheless retained a bohemian delight in transgression that makes him a radical". Humphries is the author of many books including two autobiographies, two novels and a treatise on Chinese drama in the goldfields. He has written several plays and has made dozens of recordings.

His first autobiography More Please won the J. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in Humphries has been the subject of several critical and biographical studies and a TV documentary:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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