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Barrault

American  
[ba-roh] / baˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis 1910–1994, French actor and director.


Barrault British  
/ baro /

noun

  1. Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime

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He continued his education in Paris, where he studied with the actor Jean-Louis Barrault and the mime Etienne Decroux.

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2022

The stillness, shot through with dancers’ gestures of intimate dismay, recalls the thoughtful, mesmerizing Jean-Louis Barrault, as the mime in Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 25, 2016

In Paris, and later back in New York, she studied theater, movement and visual art with eminences including the stage director Erwin Piscator, the actor and mime Jean-Louis Barrault and the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann.

From New York Times May 13, 2015

Three foreign performers received acting nominations: Liv Ullmann for "Face to Face," Marie-Christine Barrault for "Cousin, Cousine" and Giancarlo Giannini for "Seven Beauties."

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2015

The "mission of the mother" was formed, and with Barrault at the head it set out for Constantinople.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

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