Awards & Winners

Barry Humphries

Date of Birth 17-February-1934
Place of Birth Kew Vic
(City of Boroondara, Victoria, Melbourne)
Nationality Australia
Also know as John Barry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage, Dame Edna, Sir Les Patterson, Dame Edna Everage and Les Patterson, Les Patterson, Dame Edna Everidge, Sir Les Patterson/Dame Edna Everage, Edna Everage, Madge Allsop, Sunny Sam, John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE, Dame Edna, Dame Edna Everage, John Barry Humphries
Profession Actor, Satirist, Comedian, Screenwriter, Author, Artist, Film Producer, Voice Actor
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, satirist, artist, and author. Humphries is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin". Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he has also appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London which was first published in Private Eye magazine. The stories about "Bazza" gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences, and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker.

Awards by Barry Humphries

Check all the awards nominated and won by Barry Humphries.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!
Outstanding Solo Performance

2004


ASTRA Awards for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Male

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
ASTRA Awards for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Male

2000


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Honored for : Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
(Outstanding Solo Performance)
Outer Critics Circle Special Award
Honored for : Dame Edna: The Royal Tour

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
Outstanding Solo Performance

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance The Dame Edna Experience

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance An Audience with...
Dame Edna Everage

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance The Dame Edna Experience

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement Back With A Vengeance

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance An Audience with...
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1979


Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance
Honored for : A Night With Dame Edna

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance A Night With Dame Edna

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience Dame Edna Everage

1975


AACTA Award for Honourable Mention
Honored for : The Great Macarthy
(For a supporting role.)

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Honourable Mention The Great Macarthy
For a supporting role.

1974


AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
Honored for : The Great Macarthy

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor The Great Macarthy