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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.
Marco Calvani
Marco Calvani (born 1980, Prato) is an Italian actor, playwright, and filmmaker; High Tide director and star of Netflix's The Four Seasons; distinct from the homonymous Serie B basketball coach.
Marcus Brigstocke
Marcus Brigstocke (born 1973, Guildford) is an English comedian, satirist and actor, BBC New Comedian Award winner 1996, Radio 4 regular (The Now Show, Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off), Spamalot's King Arthur, author of God Collar, husband of Rachel Parris.
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho (born 1968) is a Korean-American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from San Francisco, known for politically outspoken comedy and starring in All-American Girl.
Margaret Hughes
Margaret (Peg) Hughes, died 1719, English Restoration actress and mistress of Prince Rupert, long claimed as the first professional English actress; recent archival research argues she was not on stage before 1668.
Margot Fonteyn
Margot Fonteyn (Margaret Hookham, 1919–1991), English Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Royal Ballet, muse of Frederick Ashton, famed for her 1962–1979 partnership with Rudolf Nureyev and marriage to Roberto Arias.
Marguerite and Armand
Marguerite and Armand is a one-act Frederick Ashton ballet, to Liszt music, created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, premiered by The Royal Ballet in London in 1963.
Maria Bamford
Maria Bamford, American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice performer born 1970, known for multi-voice character comedy about mental illness, the Netflix series Lady Dynamite, the memoir Sure, I'll Join Your Cult, and the 2026 documentary Paralyzed by Hope.
Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief (Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, Ki He Kah Stah Tsa, 1925–2013), Osage ballerina from Fairfax, Oklahoma; first major American prima ballerina, New York City Ballet star, Balanchine's Firebird, 2023 U.S. quarter honoree.
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.
Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni (Mariana Sophie Taglioni, 1804-1884), Italian-Swedish ballerina born in Stockholm, creator of the title role in La Sylphide (1832), the Romantic ballet archetype of white tutu and pointe work, later teacher and choreographer of Le Papillon.
Mariinsky Theatre (Мариинский театр)
Mariinsky Theatre (Мариинский театр), formerly the Kirov Theatre, is St. Petersburg's federal state opera and ballet company, founded in 1783, with the historic 1860 Cavos theatre, the Concert Hall, and Mariinsky II (2013, 1,830 seats).
Mario Cantone
Mario Cantone (born 1959, Boston) is an American comedian, impressionist, and Broadway actor, known as Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City and And Just Like That..., and for his Tony-nominated one-man show Laugh Whore.
Marionette
Marionette (French marionnette): a string puppet suspended from a hand-held control and operated from above, unlike glove or rod puppets. Key facts: six to seven string minimum stringing, aeroplane and upright controls, Virgin Mary etymology, Renaissance revival, UNESCO-listed Czech tradition.
Marius Petipa (Мариус Петипа)
Marius Petipa (Мариус Петипа), 1818–1910, French-born ballet dancer, teacher, and chief balletmaster of the St Petersburg imperial theaters 1869–1903; creator of the grand ballet form and of Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake with Lev Ivanov, Raymonda, Don Quixote, and La Bayadère.
Marjorie Prime (play)
Marjorie Prime is a play by Jordan Harrison in which an 85-year-old woman with failing memory talks with an AI recreation of her dead husband.
Mark Ballas
Mark Ballas (Mark Alexander Ballas Jr., born 1986, Houston) is a three-time Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball champion, judge on DWTS: The Next Pro, Broadway performer (Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, Chicago's Billy Flynn), and half of the duo Alexander Jean with wife BC Jean.
Mark Hellinger Theatre
The Mark Hellinger Theatre, also known as the Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre and 51st Street Theatre, is a 1930 Thomas W. Lamb movie palace at 237 West 51st Street that hosted My Fair Lady and Jesus Christ Superstar and has been the Times Square Church's home since 1989.
Mark Lonow
Mark Lonow (born 1944, Brooklyn) is an American actor, producer, and co-owner with Budd Friedman of the Hollywood Improv comedy club, known for Thank God It's Friday, The Wedding Singer, and Lewis Black specials.
Mark McKinney
Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born 1959, Ottawa), Canadian comedian of The Kids in the Hall, SNL 1995–97, Slings & Arrows, and Superstore's Glenn; distinct from the Texas country singer of the same name.
Mark Normand
Mark Normand (born 1983) is a New Orleans-born, New York-based stand-up comedian known for rapid-fire joke writing, the Netflix specials Soup to Nuts and None Too Pleased, the self-released Out to Lunch, and the podcasts Tuesdays with Stories and We Might Be Drunk.
Mark Proksch
Mark Proksch (born 1978, Onalaska, Wisconsin) is an American comedian and character actor, aka K-Strass yo-yo prankster; Colin Robinson in What We Do in the Shadows, Nate in The Office, Pryce in Better Call Saul.
Mark Steel
Mark Steel (born 1960, Swanley, Kent) is an English stand-up comedian, columnist, and broadcaster, creator of BBC Radio 4's Mark Steel's in Town and the BAFTA-nominated Mark Steel Lectures, author of The Leopard in My House.
Mark Watson
Mark Watson (born 1980, Bristol) is an English stand-up comedian, novelist, and producer, a Cambridge Footlights alumnus known for 24-hour-plus endurance shows, novels including Eleven and Mortification, and panel shows such as Taskmaster and Mock the Week.
Market Theatre (Johannesburg)
Market Theatre (Johannesburg) is a state-funded cultural institution founded in 1974 by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. It operates out of the city's 1913 Indian Fruit Market building.
Marko Kropyvnytskyi
Marko Kropyvnytskyi (Марко Кропивницький, 1840–1910) was a Ukrainian dramatist, actor, and composer who founded the first professional Ukrainian theater, known as the theater of the coryphaei.
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.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (1894–1991) was an American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who founded her company in 1926, created 180 works including Appalachian Spring, and became known as the mother of modern dance.
Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis: American comedy duo of Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) and Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch), active July 25, 1946 to July 1956; nightclub, radio, The Colgate Comedy Hour, and sixteen films before their 1956 breakup.