The Enigma
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The Enigma, is a sideshow performer and musician who has undergone extensive body modification, including horn implants and a full-body jigsaw-puzzle tattoo. His tattooing process began on December 20, 1992, under the needle of "Katzen the Tiger Lady," heavily tattooed herself, whom he later married. To date, The Enigma has had more than two hundred tattoo artists work on him, with as many as twenty-three at one time.
The Enigma was raised in Seattle, and began studying music when he was six years old. Later, he was a founding member of the Jim Rose Circus, which toured the world between 1992 and 1998.
The Enigma toured with Katzen, playing music and doing sideshow performances under the moniker "Human Marvels." The Enigma and Katzen bore one child, a daughter, before they were divorced. Their daughter now resides with Katzen's mother.
The Enigma appeared on the television show The X-Files in an episode entitled "Humbug," where he played a character called "The Conundrum." In 2005, the Enigma would appear in toy form, as "The Conundrum" in Palisades Toys' X-Files PALz action figure line. In 2004, The Enigma appeared with Mike Patton, Jane Wiedlin, Karen Black and Katzen, in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker. The film had a very limited theatrical release but was released on DVD on July 4, 2006.
He has also appeared in the music video of Fallen Leaves by Billy Talent as a monster or deformed person at a dinner party and as a "stranger" on the game show Identity.
