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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
all 101
Movies 92
self 10
TV Shows 9
Director 5
Producer 1
Anthracite (2024)
The Rebellious (2024)
The Pod Generation (2023)
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier (2023)
This Is the End (2023)
Silent Land (2022)
White Friar (2022)
The Rope (2022)
The Fourth Wall (2021)
My Best Part (2020)
Little Birds (2020)
The Cellar (2018)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
The Call (2018)
The Miracle (2018)
Cut Off (2018)
Bad Banks (2018)
Buğday (2017)
Dolphin Man (2017)
After the War (2017)
UK18 (2017)
Wax: We Are The X (2016)
Whoever Was Using This Bed (2016)
The Magic Mountain (2015)
The Last Mirage (2014)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Left Over - Intimate Politics (2013)
Big Sur (2013)
Manhattan Romance (2013)
Fantasmes! - Sexe, Fiction et Tentations (2013)
Vandal (2013)
Brochet comme le poisson (2013)
And They Call It Summer (2012)
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying (2011)
Blood On The Docks (2011)
Le Repaire de la vouivre (2011)
American Translation (2011)
His Mother's Eyes (2011)
Dimension (2010)
City of Shadows (2010)
Heavy Rain (2010)
Making Plans for Lena (2009)
Parc (2009)
Baby Blues (2008)
Nucingen House (2008)
The Anarchist's Wife (2008)
Here’s Looking at You, Boy (2007)
The Boss of It All (2006)
One to Another (2006)
From Dreyer to von Trier (2005)
Manderlay (2005)
Tara Road (2005)
Cockles and Muscles (2005)
Anecdotes from Europa (2005)
CQ2 (Seek You Too) (2004)
The Car Keys (2003)
Saltimbank (2003)
Le Divorce (2003)
Dogville (2003)
Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun (2002)
The Red Siren (2002)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
Mary's Sons (2002)
Being Light (2001)
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95 (2000)
Too Much Flesh (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
FreeDogme (2000)
Lovers (1999)
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (1998)
Ça ne se refuse pas (1998)
What I Did for Love (1998)
Préférence (1998)
The Scarlet Tunic (1998)
St. Ives (1998)
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997)
The Infidels (1997)
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi (1997)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Mo' (1996)
Lifeline (1996)
Marching in Darkness (1996)
L'Échappée belle (1996)
Iron Horsemen (1995)
Le fils préféré (1994)
Les Faussaires (1994)
The Plague (1992)
The Making of Europa (1991)
Europa (1991)
Blaze (1991)
Trier's Element (1991)
The Big Blue (1988)
Maurice (1987)
Hope and Glory (1987)
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985)
King David (1985)
Shores
Le jour qui vient
King and Conqueror
Halo of Stars
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1960-09-27 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceBitburg, Germany
CitizenshipsFrance, United States of America
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