Dame Edna Everage

Dame Edna Everage, housewife, gigastar, investigative journalist, grief counsellor, and icon, is arguably the most popular and gifted woman in the world today.

Her career began in Moonee Ponds, Australia in 1956 and blossomed during the Seventies when her success in Australia was repeated in Britain with stage hits including Housewife, Superstar and A Night With Dame Edna. In this decade she was awarded a Damehood, and then embarked on a series of spectacular stage and TV shows.

Her innovative style has been copied by many, but never equalled. Edna's notable awards include a British Academy Award, first prizes at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Gold Awards at the New York Film and TV Festival, The Golden Rose at Montreux, a Tony award on Broadway, amongst many accolades.

Possibly Jewish (in a former life), Edna and has three grown-up, dysfunctional children. She spends her time visiting world leaders and jet setting between her homes in Malibu, Mustique, Munich and Melbourne. She is the founder and Governor of 'Friends of the Prostate' and the World Women's Prostate Olympics.

Her hobbies are having afternoon tea with Stephen Hawking and compassionate photography. She especially likes lensing her fashionable friends in Aspen and Gstaad, and war orphans.

Her motto is: I'm sorry, but I care.

 

 


Last updated: 15 April, 2008
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