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person_profile-Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr Age: 64

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Sep 27, 1960

Country of birth:

Germany

Biography of

Jean-Marc Barr

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Jean-Marc Barr (born on 27 September 1960 in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer. Barr is bilingual in French and English: he speaks French with a nasal, hybrid accent, reminiscent of his American upbringing - with a slight American accent and occasional anglicisms in interviews - and English with a Mid-Atlantic accent.

    He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. He went on to pursue an education in drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In London he met his future wife, a pianist and composer Irina Dečermić.

    Jean-Marc Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After some television roles and film work, in particular, Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman, he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him in the role of French diver Jacques Mayol. He played in the role opposite Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s.

    In 1991, he starred in Danish director Lars von Trier's Europa, marking the beginning of a long friendship (he is the godfather of von Trier's children) as well as a significant professional relationship. He went on to appear in von Trier’s Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2004) and Manderlay (2005). Also in 2005 he starred in the French film Crustacés et Coquillages.

    His collaboration with von Trier put him on track to start directing his own work. He debuted in 1999 as a director, screenwriter and producer with the intimate love story Lovers. This film became the first part of a trilogy; the two subsequent parts being the drama Too Much Flesh (2000) and the comedy Being Light (2001) which he co-directed with Pascal Arnold.

    He may also be recognized for his role as the attractive divorce lawyer, Maitre Bertram in the Merchant Ivory film le Divorce (2003). He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002. He appeared as the main character in the video for Blur's 1995 single, "Charmless Man".

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Filmography of

Jean-Marc Barr

Found 67 Movies in total

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... 2024

The Pod Generation

The Founder ( Actor )

... 2023

This Is the End

Self ( Actor )

... 2023

Silent Land

Nurek Arnaud ( Actor )

... 2022

My Best Part

The director ( Actor )

... 2020

The Cellar

Milan ( Actor )

... 2018

Cut Off

Trevor De Blanc ( Actor )

... 2018

Buğday

Erol ( Actor )

... 2017

Dolphin Man

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

After the War

Jérôme ( Actor )

... 2017

UK18

The Foreigner ( Actor )

... 2017

Wax - We Are The X

Jean-Christophe Touchalier ( Actor )

... 2016

The Last Mirage

Justin Livingstone ( Actor )

... 2014

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Debtor Gentleman ( Actor )

... 2013

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac ( Actor )

... 2013

Manhattan Romance

Alex ( Actor )

... 2013

Vandal

Paul, l'oncle ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

American Translation

William ( Actor )

Editor

... 2011

His Mother's Eyes

Jean-Paul Tremazan ( Actor )

... 2011

City of Shadows

Dr. Max Orswell ( Actor )

... 2010

Making Plans for Lena

Nigel ( Actor )

... 2009

Nucingen House

William Henry James III ( Actor )

... 2009

Parc

Paul Marteau ( Actor )

... 2009

Baby Blues

Dan ( Actor )

... 2008

The Anarchist's Wife

Pierre ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2007

The Boss of It All

Spencer ( Actor )

... 2006

Manderlay

Mr. Robinsson ( Actor )

... 2005

Tara Road

Andy ( Actor )

... 2005

Cockles and Muscles

Didier ( Actor )

... 2005

CQ2 (Seek You Too)

Steven ( Actor )

... 2004

The Car Keys

Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent ( Actor )

... 2003

Le Divorce

Maitre Bertram ( Actor )

... 2003

Dogville

Man with the big Hat ( Actor )

... 2003

The Red Siren

Hugo ( Actor )

... 2002

Mary's Sons

Paul ( Actor )

... 2002

Being Light

Jack Lesterhoof ( Actor )

Writer

... 2001

blur | The Best Of

Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man") ( Actor )

... 2000

... 2000

Too Much Flesh

Lyle ( Actor )

Writer

... 2000

Dancer in the Dark

Norman ( Actor )

... 2000

FreeDogme

Himself ( Actor )

... 2000

... 1998

What I Did for Love

Marc ( Actor )

... 1998

St. Ives

Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

Breaking the Waves

Terry ( Actor )

... 1996

Lifeline

Patrick LeMay ( Actor )

... 1996

Marching in Darkness

Silvio Roatto ( Actor )

... 1996

L'Échappée belle

Emmanuel Barnes ( Actor )

... 1996

Iron Horsemen

Robert ( Actor )

... 1995

Le fils préféré

Philippe ( Actor )

... 1994

Les Faussaires

Jack Baker ( Actor )

... 1994

The Plague

Jean Tarrou ( Actor )

... 1992

Europa

Leopold Kessler ( Actor )

... 1991

Blaze

Actor

... 1991

The Big Blue

Jacques Mayol ( Actor )

... 1988

Maurice

French colleague ( Actor )

... 1987

Hope and Glory

Bruce ( Actor )

... 1987

Hotel du Lac

Alain ( Actor )

... 1986

King David

Absalom ( Actor )

... 1985