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mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"),[1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound.

Ancient Greece and Rome

Main articles: Ancient Greek comedy and Theatre of ancient Rome § Roman comedy

The performance of mime originates at its earliest in Ancient Greece; the name is taken from a single masked dancer called Pantomimus, although performances were not necessarily silent. The first recorded mime was Telestēs in the play Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus. Tragic mime was developed by Puladēs of Kilikia; comic mime was developed by Bathullos of Alexandria.[4] Mime (mimius) was an aspect of Roman theatre from its earliest times,[5] paralleling the Atellan farce in its improvisation (if without the latter's stock characters).[6] It gradually began to replace the Atellanae as interludes [embolium] or postscripts [exodium] on the main theatre stages;[7] became the sole dramatic event at the Floralia in the second century BC; and in the following century received technical advances at the hands of Publius Syrus and Decimus Laberius.[6] Under the Empire mime became the predominant Roman drama,[6] if with mixed fortunes under different emperors. Trajan banished mime artists; Caligula favored them; Marcus Aurelius made them priests of Apollo. Nero himself acted as a mime.[8] The mime was distinguished from other dramas by its absence of masks, and by the presence of female as well as male performers.[9] Stock characters included the lead (or archymimus[a]), the stooge or stupidus,[6] and the gigolo, or cultus adulter.[10]

Medieval Europe

In medieval Europe, early forms of mime such as mummer plays and later dumbshows evolved. In early nineteenth-century Paris, Jean-Gaspard Deburau solidified the many attributes that have come to be known in modern times—thesilent figure in whiteface.

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List of mime artists

Rowan Atkinson

Samuel Avital

Steven Banks[13]

Jean-Louis Barrault

Blue Man Group

Wolfe Bowart

Tony Brown

Charlie Chaplin

Michel Courtemanche

Adam Darius

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

Étienne Decroux

Ryan Drummond

Jogesh Dutta[14]

Ladislav Fialka

Dario Fo

George L. Fox

Chris Harris

Bill Irwin

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Doug Jones

Buster Keaton

Lindsay Kemp

Stan Laurel

Thomas Leabhart

Grigory Gurevich

Jacques Lecoq

Paul Legrand

Tina Lenert

Partha Pratim Majumder

Marcel Marceau

Ennio Marchetto

Kari Margolis

Carlos Martínez

Harpo Marx

Irene Mawer

Samy Molcho

Tony Montanaro

Mummenschanz

Stefan Niedziałkowski

Adrian Pecknold

Lenka Pichlíková-Burke

Slava Polunin

Oleg Popov

Nola Rae

Bari Rolfe

Gene Sheldon

Richmond Shepard

Shields and Yarnell

Red Skelton

Steam Powered Giraffe

Daniel Stein

Marko Stojanović

Jacques Tati

Pan Tau

Modris Tenisons[15]

Teller

Tik and Tok

Henryk Tomaszewski

Dick Van Dyke

Sam Wills

Vahram Zaryan

Achille Zavatta

Benedikt Negro

Fictional mime artists

Art the Clown

Mr. Mime

Mime Jr.

Mime (Happy Tree Friends)

Luan Loud

Mime (comics)

Mimey