# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-legrand
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:54:46.883Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-legrand"
name: "Paul Legrand"
slug: "paul-legrand"
description: "Paul Legrand, born Charles-Dominique-Martin Legrand, was a highly regarded and influential French mime who turned the Pierrot of his predecessor, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, into the tearful, sentimental character that is most familiar to post-19th-century admirers of the figure. He was the first of the Parisian mimes of his era to take his art abroad—to London, in late 1847, for a holiday engagement at the Adelphi—and, after triumphs in mid-century Paris at the Folies-Nouvelles, he entertained audiences in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro. In the last years of the century, he was a member of the Cercle Funambulesque, a theatrical society that promoted work, especially pantomime, inspired by the commedia dell'arte, past and present. The year of his death coincided with the last year of the Cercle's existence."
tagline: "French mime (1816–1898)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Legrand_by_Nadar_c1855.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1816-01-04"
deathDate: "1898-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.15
  momentum:             0.9719222462203025
  historical:           5.684954666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legrand"
    title: "Paul Legrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بول ليجراند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legrand"
    title: "Paul Legrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legrand"
    title: "Paul Legrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legrand"
    title: "Paul Legrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Legrand"
    title: "Paul Legrand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3371674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump