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List of entertainers who died during a performance
A list of entertainers who died during a live performance, from Molière in 1673 to nightclub deaths in the 2020s, mostly from heart attacks, falls, or gunfire.
List of roles and awards of Subodh Bhave
Roles and awards of Subodh Bhave (सुबोध भावे), Marathi actor-director known for Balgandharva, Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush, and Katyar Kaljat Ghusali; lists his stage, TV and film roles and 30-plus awards.
Living skeleton
Living skeleton: billing for extremely thin sideshow and circus performers, from Claude Seurat in the 1820s to Isaac W. Sprague, Artie Atherton, and Peter Robinson of Freaks (1932); distinct from hunger artists, declined in the early twentieth century.
Lorraine Vélez
Lorraine Vélez, also spelled Loraine Velez, is an American singer and actress specializing in musical theatre, twin sister of Lauren Vélez; Broadway Dreamgirls and Rent (Mimi), West End Fame, Miss Saigon, Rent, Porgy and Bess, plus TV and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse credits.
Lotta Crabtree
Lotta Crabtree (Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, 1847-1924) was an American actress, child star of the California Gold Rush, highest-paid US actress of the 1880s, donor of San Francisco's Lotta's Fountain, and philanthropist who left over $4 million to charity.
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), French actor, director, and head of the Théâtre de l'Athénée from 1934; co-founder of the Cartel des quatre, creator of Giraudoux's major plays and Molière's Dom Juan, and film actor in Quai des Orfèvres.
Luminița Gheorghiu
Luminița Gheorghiu (1949–2021) was a Romanian stage and film actress, Bulandra Theatre member and Ion Cojar student, celebrated for Mioara in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and the lead in Child's Pose.
Maja Todd
Maja Todd, Polish beauty queen born 2005 in Katowice, won Miss Polonia 2025, competed at Miss International 2025 in Tokyo, and represented Poland at Miss World 2026 in Nha Trang, reaching Miss World Europe Top 10; studies Global Business at SGH Warsaw.
Make-up artist
Make-up artist (MUA): a professional applying cosmetics, prosthetics, and special effects for stage, film, TV, and fashion. Key facts: O*NET code 39-5091.00, greasepaint history from 1873, HD-era naturalism, IATSE unions, hygiene and safety standards.
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin (born 1952, Chicago) is an American actor and singer: Tony winner as Che in Evita, Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George, Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, Emmy winner for Chicago Hope, and Saul Berenson on Homeland.
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau, born Marcel Mangel (1923–2007), French Jewish mime who created the white-faced clown Bip; Resistance forger of ID cards who smuggled over 70 Jewish children to Switzerland, then founded his own mime company and schools in Paris.
Marcello Magni
Marcello Magni (1959–2022), Italian actor and co-founder of Complicité (Théâtre de Complicité), trained at Jacques Lecoq's Paris school; known for physical theatre, Peter Brook collaborations, Kathryn Hunter partnership, and voicing Pingu.
Marian Seldes
Marian Seldes (1928–2014), American Broadway actress; Tony winner for A Delicate Balance (1967); Guinness record 1,809 straight Deathtrap performances; Juilliard teacher.
Marla Mindelle
Marla Mindelle (born 1984, Yardley, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and writer, co-creator and star of Titanique as Céline Dion, a 2023 Lortel and Obie winner, and a three-time 2026 Tony nominee.
Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)
Marsha Hunt (born 1946) is an American singer, model, actress, and novelist living in Britain, star of the 1968 London Hair and icon of Black beauty, mother of Mick Jagger's first child, distinct from the 1917–2022 Hollywood actress.
Mary Martin
Mary Martin (Mary Virginia Martin, 1913–1990), American Broadway star and singer; originated Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Peter Pan, and Maria in The Sound of Music; won three Best Actress Tonys plus a Special Tony; mother of Larry Hagman.
Master of ceremonies
Master of ceremonies (MC, emcee, compère): the person who introduces guests, speakers, and performers at formal occasions and keeps the program running; distinct from moderator, facilitator, and event manager.
Maurizio Lombardi
Maurizio Lombardi (born 1973, Florence) is an Italian actor, playwright, and director: Cardinal Assente in The Young Pope/The New Pope, Ripley (Netflix 2024), Blade Runner 2099, Nastro d'Argento winner, one-man show Ho visto cose.
Max Factor
Max Factor (Maksymilian Faktorowicz, c. 1877–1938) was a Polish-born Hollywood make-up artist who invented film make-up, coined "make-up", and founded the cosmetics brand now owned by Coty.
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (Maximilian Goldmann, 1873–1943), Austrian-born theater director and impresario, founder of modern director's theater, director of Berlin's Deutsches Theater and Großes Schauspielhaus, co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, died in New York exile.
Maxie (drag queen)
Maxie (Jayvhot Andreison Galang) is a Filipino drag performer and LGBTQ advocate who won Drag Race Philippines Season 3 in 2024 and competed on Queen of the Universe.
Maxine Elliott
Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), born Jessie Dermot(t) in Rockland, Maine, was an American Broadway star, producer, and theater owner who built the Maxine Elliott Theatre (1908) and led Belgian war relief. Not the Maxine Elliott Hicks of film.
Meisner technique
Meisner technique: Sanford Meisner's American actor-training method, built on the repetition exercise, emotional preparation, and improvisation, teaching actors to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances without Strasberg-style emotional memory.
Method acting
Method acting, or the Method, is Lee Strasberg's American adaptation of Stanislavski's System, built on affective memory, taught via the Group Theatre and Actors Studio, and distinct from Adler and Meisner techniques.
Meyerhold's biomechanics
Meyerhold's biomechanics is Vsevolod Meyerhold's post-revolutionary system of physical actor training, an alternative to Stanislavsky's psychological System, built on reflex theory, Taylorist efficiency, and principles such as otkaz, posil, stoika, and tormos.
Mia Carragher
Mia Carragher (Mia Rose Carragher), born 2004 in Liverpool, is a British actress and dancer, daughter of Jamie Carragher, who plays Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: On Stage at the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, her professional stage debut, after training at Tring Park and Lee Strasberg.
Micaela Diamond
Micaela Diamond, American stage and screen actress; Broadway debut as Babe in The Cher Show (2018); Tony-nominated Lucille Frank in Parade (2023); originated Fritz in Sondheim's Here We Are; stars in Grotesquerie and Awake and Sing!.
Michael Arden
Michael Arden (Michael Jerrod Moore, born 1982, Midland, Texas) is an American Broadway director and former actor; three-time Tony winner for Parade, Maybe Happy Ending, and The Lost Boys, husband of Andy Mientus.
Michael Attenborough
Michael Attenborough (born 1950), English theatre director, son of Richard Attenborough; Principal Associate Director of the RSC (1990-2002) and Artistic Director of London's Almeida Theatre (2002-2013), CBE 2013.
Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov (Михаил Чехов, 1891–1955), Russian-born actor, nephew of Anton Chekhov, and Stanislavsky's 'most brilliant pupil', created a psycho-physical acting technique using psychological gesture, imaginary body, and atmospheres.