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Career highlights: Dame Edna Everage
Career highlights: Dame Edna Everage
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Barry Humphries is Back with a Vengeance at the Capitol Theatre in the guise of Dame Edna. Here Dame Edna hold a media call and performs one number from the show, in 2007.Credit:Bob Pearce
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Steve Irwin poses with Dame Edna and a koala.Credit:Supplied
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Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everidge, pictured in the 1980s.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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AFL football Grand Final . Sydney Swans v West Coast Eagles at MCG. Dame Edna Everage celebrates her first AFL Grand Final. 24th September 2005.Credit:Vince Caligiuri
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Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna Everage, left, with singers Luciano Pavarotti, centre, and Gloria Estefan at the Festival Theatre, in Edinburgh, for the start of the 75th Royal Variety performance, Monday Nov. 24, 2003.Credit:AP
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Ex Prime Minister Gough Whitlam stars as himself in a scene being shot at Sydney Airport for the next Barry McKenzie film "Bazza Holds His Own" on 20 April 1974. He is pictured with Barry Humphries playing Auntie Edna.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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Dame Joan Sutherland Prince Charles and Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) at the Inaugural Gala Concert for the Aust Music Foundation, London 1978.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everidge with Calista Flockhart and crew in Ally McBeal.Credit:Supplied
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Aunt Edna (Barry Humphries) with Barry Crocker in a London taxi in a scene from The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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Barry Humphries performing as Dame Edna Everage reading The Age newspaper with headline 'Poms give Dame Edna the raspberry', 23 March 1981.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage - posing seductively on a chair. part of exhibition 'Rarely Everage: The Lives of Barry Humphries'.Credit:Supplied
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Jennifer Hawkins Dame Edna Everidge and milliner Richard Nylon at Victoria Derby Day at Flemington Race Track Melbourne, 30 October 2010.Credit:Craig Sillitoe
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Barry Humphries performing as Dame Edna Everage in 1959.Credit:Fairfax Archives
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, meets Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna Everage, at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh for the start of the 75th Royal Variety performance, Monday Nov. 24, 2003.Credit:AP
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Dame Edna and Kris Smith at Melbourne's Party of the Year - Derby After Dark in south Melbourne. October 30th 2010.Credit:Mal Fairclough
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Entertainers Dame Edna and Ertha Kitt pose as they arrive for The American Theatre Wing's 2000 Tony Awards, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, June 4, 2000.Credit:Reuters
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Dame Edna Everidge on stage at the Princess Theatre in 1999.Credit:Jerry Galea