The stage persona “Bip the Clown” elevated Marcel Marceau, a French actor and mime artist, to fame. He called mime the “art of quiet” over his more than 60 years of performing professionally all around the world.
Marcel Marceau was a young Jew who served with the French Resistance while living in hiding for the most of World War II.
Marcel Marceau performed his first important performance to 3,000 soldiers after Paris was freed in August. After the war, he went to Paris to study mime and theatrical art.
At the age of 84, Marceau passed away on September 22, 2007, in a retirement home in Cahors, France. The second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 was performed during his burial.
Marcel Marceau wife: Who is Anne Sicco?
Early in the 1970s, Marcel Marceau first met Anne Sicco, his third wife. When they first met, Sicco was barely 19 and Marceau was approaching 50. When they first met, she, a young fan, just so happened to wander inside Marceau’s dressing room.
Following their 1975 wedding, they made their home in Paris. At Marceau’s mime academy afterwards, Sicco was appointed a professor of experimental theatre. Their daughters Camille and Aurélia were born to them collectively. Two sons were born to Marceau and his first wife.
