Barry Humphries

Residence 1

📍36 Christowel Street, Camberwell, Melbourne, VIC 3124, Australia

“I was raised in a brand-new house on Christowel Street, in the genteel garden suburb of Camberwell — my father built it, and the one next door too. They called me Sunny Sam and gave me every comfort and almost no understanding. While the grown-ups kept their lawns clipped and their opinions safe, I spent whole afternoons in the back garden dressing up, inventing characters, performing for anyone who would watch. I came to find Camberwell's tidy respectability suffocating — and so, years later, I built a whole comic universe out of it. Dame Edna was born in those streets: I simply gave suburban Australia a wig and let it talk.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Barry Humphries

Residence 2

📍Little Venice, Maida Vale, London W9, United Kingdom

“London became my second home — and, in time, my first. I settled near Little Venice, among the canals and stucco terraces of Maida Vale, a world away from Camberwell's clipped lawns yet secretly not so different. From here I conquered the West End, filled my house with paintings and rare books, and watched Dame Edna become rather more famous than I was. The boy who had performed in a Melbourne back garden had found a grander stage — but I never stopped mining that suburban childhood for everything it was worth.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Barry Humphries