Leigh Bowery
Actor
Biography
Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery was known for his flamboyant and outlandish costumes and makeup as well as his performances. Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a significant model and muse for the English painter Lucian Freud.
Filmography
Wigstock: The Movie
as Self 1995
The British Guide to Showing Off
as Self (archive footage) 2011
Read Only Memory
1998
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
as Self (archive footage) 2002
The Ghosts of Oxford Street
as King George 1991
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York
1999
Kinky Gerlinky
as Self 2003
Because We Must
1989
Hail the New Puritan
1986
Degrees of Blindness
1988