Dame Edna Everage

Dame Edna Everage is a fictional character of the Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Trademark is her purple hair and oversized glasses. As Dame Edna Humphries has published several books and hosted many TV shows.

1979 Dame Edna was the subject of a BBC mockumentary entitled " La Dame aux Gladiolas ."

While Humphries explains that Dame Edna is a role that he plays, Dame Edna says the opposite: it denies a fictional character or a drag to be a performer. Humphries was rather their "Entrepreneur" or manager.

Fictional Biography

As part of the fictional autobiography of Dame Edna and their own statements in this fictional character she was born Edna May Beazley as in the small rural town of Wagga Wagga. Her career began on 19 December 1955 as Mrs. Norm Everage, an "average Australian housewife " from Moonee Ponds, a suburb of Melbourne. When her husband, Standard Stoddard Everage, died of prostate cancer, she was founder and governor of a charity organization called " Friends of the Prostate " and organizer of the "World Prostate Olympics".

Dame Edna spent her time to visit important statesmen of the world and became a jet-set passenger between their places of residence Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Switzerland and Martha 's Vineyard. She became a friend and confidante of the British Queen.

Dame Edna has three grown children: a daughter named Valmai (currently in a rehabilitation program for shoplifters ), even if they do not recognize, and two sons, Bruce and Kenneth, who appear to be prototypical gays in Edna's description this. The mother of Dame Edna is stored in a " maximum security twilight home ".

In addition to these family members who never appear, stepped on the stage and in television shows often the aging " Bridesmaid " Madge Allsop (played by Emily Perry ) on. Madge Allsop but never spoke a word, so they often became the victim of Dame Edna's jokes.

Actor performance and performance

The role of " Edna Everage " appears for the first time in 1955 in a comedy revue in Melbourne. At that time she was "Mrs. Norm Everage ". Your overseas debut, now as Edna Everage, was in the early 1960s at the nightclub " The Establishment " of the comedian Peter Cook in London's West End.

In 1972, she appeared as Barry McKenzie's "Aunt Edna " in the film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and its sequels. During this time it was collected by the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to " Dame Edna ".

In 1978, Dame Edna Everage in the movie Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.

Large notoriety gained Dame Edna Everage in the UK by their transmitted on Independent Television TV shows in the 1980s and early 1990s. She received her own shows and Varietyshows, including in 1987, the show The Dame Edna Experience, and in 1992 the show Dame Edna 's Neighbourhood Watch.

In 2001 Dame Edna was seen in a recurring role as Claire Otoms on the hit U.S. television series Ally McBeal.