So long, possums. Dame Edna Everage is dead.

Dame Edna
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Dame Edna Everage, the bedazzled, 6’3″ in stilettos violet-coiffed “gigastar,” who entertained millions over a seven-decade career on stage and screen, has died, along with her creator, Barry Humphries. They were 89.

The “gigastar” description was Dame Edna’s own.

A tribute from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, where Dame Edna called home, celebrated Mr. Humphries as “a great wit, satirist, writer, and an absolute one-of-kind.” Humphries died following hip surgery in Sydney.

From her creation in Melbourne in 1955 to what would be her final performance in 2020 for the BBC, Dame Edna towered over audiences in one-woman shows across Australia to London’s West End and Broadway and was a ubiquitous and blinding presence in sequins and rhinestones on television all over the English-speaking world.

She was born just an “everage” Australian housewife but evolved over decades into a larger-than-life national and international treasure. Her schtick was…

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