- Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel) (22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a well-known mime artist, among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. - Keith Moore
Keith Moore (born 12 October 1960) is the author and co-author of several IETF RFCs related to the MIME and SMTP protocols for electronic mail, among others: *RFC 1870, defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected; *RFC 2017, defining a (rarely implemented) means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL; *RFC 2047 amended by RFC 2231, … - Nathaniel Borenstein
Nathaniel Borenstein (b. September 23, 1957) is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail. Currently Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Borenstein was founder of NETPOS.COM and First Virtual Holdings, called "the first cyberbank" by the Smithsonian Institution. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and Religious Studies from Grinnell College, … - David Armand
David Armand (born David Whitehead) is an English comedian and actor and a member of the comedy troupe "The Hollow Men". He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has performed for television, stage, film and radio. He co-wrote and starred in The Hollow Men TV series for Comedy Central in the US, and their BBC Radio 4 series. He also starred in the Five sketch show Swinging, … - Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was a French actor, mime and acting instructor. Born in Paris, he is most famous for his methods on physical theatre, movement and mime taught at l'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq from 1956 until his death in 1999. Lecoq began his career by studying physical education and sport. After teaching this subject for several years, he found himself acting and a member of the "Comediens de Grenoble". - Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film "Les Enfants du Paradis" ("Children of Paradise"). Jean-Louis Barrault studied with the mime artist Etienne Decroux and made his debut (at the age of 21) in the "Théâtre de l'Atelier". After 1935, he worked with his own ensemble. - Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (October 9 1907 - November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris. - Michel Courtemanche
Michel Courtemanche (born December 11, 1964 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a Quebecois comedian and actor. He has drawn hundreds of thousands to his one-man shows in Quebec, France, Belgium & Switzerland. His debut one-man show, "A New Comic is Born", ran for more than five hundred performances and earned him two Felix nominations. His second, "The New Adventures of Michel Courtemanche", … - Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices. - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky or Alexandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer, psychotherapist and father to musician Adan Jodorowsky and Brontis Jodorowsly. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents of Russian origin. In 1973 he adopted Mexican citizenship, but some years later he was naturalized as French. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, … - Jean-Gaspard Deburau
Jean-Gaspard Deburau (born Jan Kašpar Dvořák on July 31, 1796 - June 17, 1846) was a Bohemian-French actor and mime. Born in Kolín, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), he adapted the conventions of Italian commedia dell'arte to Parisian tastes. He performed in Paris at the Théâtre des Funambules, which was immortalized in Marcel Carné's poetic realist film "Les Enfants du Paradis" ("Children of Paradise"), 1945. - Slava Polunin
Vyacheslav Ivanovich (Slava) Polunin (born June 12 1950) is a Russian clown, creator of the "Asisyai-revue", "Snowshow" and "Diabolo" shows. Polunin was born in the town of Novosil, Oryol Oblast, Russia into the family of a shop-assistant. He was successful in his school theatre, imitating Charles Chaplin, but was refused entry to the Leningrad Theater Institute because of poor pronunciation. After a few years' study at an engineering school, … - Henryk Tomaszewski
Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig was a mime artist and theatre director, born in Poznań, Poland. He settled in Cracow in 1945 to study theatre after the end of World War II during which he studied at Iwo Gall's Theatre Studio from 1945 to 1947 and ballet under Feliks Parnell. Tomaszewski left Parnell's company in 1949 and resettled in Wrocław, where he taught ballet and began to develop his concepts in mime. - Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada (born 1949) is an Italian fashion designer. In 1978, she inherited the Prada SpA business from her mother, and she and her husband Patrizio Bertelli led the company's expansion into ready-to-wear apparell. The youngest granddaughter of Prada founder Mario Prada, she has a Ph.D. in Political Science. Prada has long been a financial supporter of art. She recently organized a traveling, art-gallery style display of many skirts she has designed. - Ladislav Fialka
Ladislav Fialka (born August 22, 1931 in Prague; died February 22, 1991 in Prague) was a mime from what is now the Czech Republic. - Samy Molcho
Samy Molcho, (born 1936 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a mime and also an expert in body-language communication. He was professor at the university of music and performing arts and at Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria until 2004. He studied dance and mime in Israel. From 1952 he was a dancer at the city theatre of Jerusalem. 1956 he became a solo dancer (modern dance) in Tel Aviv. In 1960 his first mime performance took place. - Geert Hoste
Geert Hoste (July 1, 1960, Bruges) is a Flemish cabaret performer. He's the founding father of cabaret and stand-up comedy in Dutch-speaking Belgium. Since 1993 Geert Hoste is one of the most successful theatre authors and performers in Flanders. His entire works have been filmed and aired on television and radio. His books and DVDs are scoring high in the bestseller lists. - Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director. Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Valley High School, where he was involved in the theater department, including the improv group and the mime troupe, "The Baker's Dozen." He later went to the North Carolina School of the Arts. His novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was adapted into a critically acclaimed movie of the same title, … - Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995) was an American author, social activist, and college professor. Bambara grew up in Harlem, Manhattan, Brooklyn, New York, and Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended schools in New York City and the southern United States. She studied theater in New York City and mime in France in the 1960s. She also became interested in dance. Ms. Bambara taught at Rutgers University and Spelman College. - Miguel Sandoval
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He was born in Washington, D.C.. Sandoval began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of pantomime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films "Do the Right Thing", "Jungle Fever", and "Jurassic Park". - Valerie Sutton
Valerie Sutton (born February 22, 1951) is a developer of movement notation and a former dancer. She was born in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, the daughter of a physicist father and a poet/model mother. She has an older sister Pam, a doctor of medicine. At the age of six months, she moved with her family to Corning, New York, the home of the Corning Glass Works, where her father became a physicist. She lived in Corning until the age of eight years, … - Decimus Laberius
Decimus Laberius (c. 105 BC-43 BC) was a Roman eques and writer of mimes. He seems to have been a man of caustic wit, who wrote for his own pleasure. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar ordered him to appear in one of his own mimes in a public contest with the actor Publilius Syrus. Laberius pronounced a dignified prologue on the degradation thus thrust on his sixty years, and directed several sharp allusions against the dictator. - Christopher Fitzgerald
Christopher Fitzgerald is an American actor, singer, mime, clown, juggler, and acrobat. He is best known for his role as Boq in the musical Wicked. He was born in Bryn Mawr, PA, on November 26, 1972. He graduated with a BA in Theater from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He also gained a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. - Marc Vann
Marc Vann (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Conrad Ecklie on the CBS television series, "CSI:Crime Scene Investigation". Although this role as agitator to Gil Grissom has earned the character evident dislike by CSI fans, Vann himself has a small but growing fanbase. He also had notable roles in "Angel" and "Early Edition". Vann was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He initially had little interest in acting or theater, … - Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy (born October 1, 1974 in Dublin) was a member of the boy band Boyzone. Duffy's profile was raised by his appearance on the first series of "Celebrity Big Brother" in 2001; he finished 3rd out of 6. He branched out from the mime he specialized in during his time in Boyzone to more serious acting, most notably on the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" as the character Ciaran McCarthy. - Jeanne Beker
Jeanne Beker is a Canadian television personality, author and newspaper columnist, who covers fashion and lifestyle news for "FashionTelevision" on Citytv, FashionTelevisionChannel and "The Globe and Mail". Beker first launched her career as an actor, landing a role in the CBC Television sitcom "Toby" in 1968. She subsequently entered the theatre program at York University, and then went to Paris to study mime under Étienne Decroux. - David Camp
David Camp is an open source software developer who is known for working on the GNOME desktop environment. He previously worked at Ximian and then Novell after it purchased Ximian in 2003. Nautilus file manager is one of the projects he has worked on. Most recently he, along with Jonathan Blandford and Ray Strode, added a new MIME system to GNOME that is expected to be one of the stand-out features of the 2.8 release. - Howard Crook
Howard Crook (born June 15 1947) is an American lyric tenor singer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated at the University of Illinois, where he received a master's degree in music, specialising in opera. He worked in theatre and mime for a few years before becoming a professional singer after winning second prizes in the vocal competitions of Paris and 's-Hertogenbosch. - Heath Lamberts
Heath Lamberts (1941-2005) was a Canadian actor. He was born James Langcaster on December 15 in Toronto, Canada, where as a boy he won singing contests at school, allowing him to perform with Toronto's Opera Festival Association. He pursued the arts as a career, changing his name to Heath Lamberts, and in 1963 graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. - Princess Norina Matchabelli
Princess Norina Matchabelli, born Norina Gilli in Florence, Italy, was co-founder of the perfume company (Prince Matchabelli), an actress, mime, mystic, publisher, and a devoted mandali of Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba. Her stage name was Maria Carmi. - Davy King
Davy King - British writer, born 1951, Isle of Thanet. King studied with Frank Kermode at University College London, & Norman MacCaig at the University of Stirling. He performed frequently in Edinburgh Fringe & other festivals (inc. Glastonbury, 1983), appearing as 'Kamikaze Bard Little Davy King's Performing Doggerel'. Dubbing himself a 'Purveyor of Videosyncratic Vaudeville Verse', he utilised mime, costumes & props to dramatic effect. - Anna Lizaran
Anna Lizaran (born August 31, 1944) is a famous Catalan TV, cinema and theatre actress. Lizaran was born in Esparraguera, Spain. Her father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker and she showed an enormous interest in theatre when she was a child. She studied theatre in the Centre d'Estudis Experimentals of Barcelona and was one of the first members of Els Comediants. - Robert Arditti
Robert Arditti (born March 5, 1946) is an English Director/Choreographer and actor, singer, dancer of stage, television, and movies. His most notable trademark is his red hair. He was born in London. Among his most prominent roles was playing Baby John in the original London production of West Side Story. In 1956 at ten years of age he was enroled at the Ballet Rambert School in London where he trained for Classical Ballet. Robert was born into an artistic family. - Ime A Mime
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Since 1976, Julian Chagrin has been living in Israel. Best known for his two Oscar Nominations for short live action, The Concert ('74) and The Morning Spider (1976) ('75) Chagrin also played the mime tennis player in Blow-Up, '66. Well-known in Israel as a comic performer, Julian has been producing both local and international television comedy programs ranging from The Orchestra, a 10-part half-hour comedy series, which won the Gold Rose of Montreux '86. He can be reached c/o... - Mime Mime
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