Barry Humphries Wife: Is Barry Humphries Married?

John Barry Humphries AO CBE is an Australian actor, artist, author, comedian and satirist.

Barry Humphries is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

Barry Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London’s West End musical theatre, a writer, and a landscape painter.

Barry Humphries other satirical characters include the “priapic and inebriated cultural attaché” Sir Les Patterson, who has “continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture.

In 2000 Barry Humphries took his Dame Edna: The Royal Tour show to North America winning the inaugural Special Tony Award for a Live Theatrical Event in 2000 and won two National Broadway Theatre Awards for “Best Play” and for “Best Actor” in 2001.

Asked by an Australian journalist what it was like to win a Tony Award, Barry Humphries said “it was like winning a thousand Gold Logies at the same time”.

Barry Humphries has been married four times.

Barry Humphries is currently with his fourth wife (since 1990), Elizabeth “Lizzie” Spender, previously an actor, and also the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender and the concert pianist Natasha Spender.