Barry HUMPHRIES Australian comedian and Dame Edna Everage star Barry Humphries has died age 89 after being admitted into hospital in Sydney, Australia in a serious condition over complications from hip replacement surgery.
Barry was best known for writing and portraying his on-stage characters Dame Edna and Sir Les – with Dame Edna appearing on Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Loose Women, The One Show, The Graham Norton Show and has also appeared on TV shows and stages across the world.
Dame Edna, who was invented by Barry in the 1950s as a party turn, even penned an autobiography titled My Gorgeous Life, which documented Dame Edna's backstory.
The comedian was married four times and has four children – Tessa, Emily, Oscar and Rupert – from his second and third marriages.
He married Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Spender, the daughter of poet Sir Stephen Spender, in 1990.
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