Anne Elizabeth Gabrielle Edmonds

Anne Edmonds (born 11 October 1979), born Anne Elizabeth Gabrielle Edmonds, is an Australian comedian and actress best known for her stand-up work and for creating and starring in the ABC comedy series The Edge of the Bush. She began her career in comedy in 2010 at the age of 29, after working in mental health in rural Australia. Edmonds uses her suburban background, singing and storytelling to create a fearless, self-deprecating and often macabre stand-up voice, with humiliation, despair, teenage mischief, relationships and loneliness as central themes. Raised Catholic in the Melbourne suburbs of Essendon and Strathmore, she studied at the University of Melbourne, completing a Bachelor of Arts and Honours in Social Work.

Edmonds has performed extensively at Australian festivals including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe and Sydney Comedy Festival, and toured internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Soho Theatre in London. Her solo stand-up shows have received multiple nominations for the Barry Award. She is known for her character work, most notably Helen Bidou, an emotionally unstable fashion expert featured on the ABC comedy Get Krack!n, whose full-length live performance Helen Bidou: Enter the Spinnaker Lounge received a Barry nomination and the Sydney Comedy Festival Best Show Award.

Other characters she created, including John Watts, Dusty Banjosen and Rebecca, feature on her ABC show The Edge of the Bush, billed as "Australia's first Scandi-noir comedy". She is also part of the satirical trio True Australian Patriots with Greg Larsen and Damien Power, and starred in and co-wrote the sketch series Fancy Boy. Her solo show What's Wrong With You? debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2020. She appeared on Taskmaster Australia in 2024 alongside her partner, comedian Lloyd Langford, with whom she had a daughter in October 2021.