Jean-Marc Barr

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: September 27, 1960
From: Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Biography

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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Marc Barr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

88 films

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

20136.7

The Big Blue

19887.4

Dogville

20037.8

Dancer in the Dark

20007.8

Maurice

19877.6

Le Divorce

20034.9

Breaking the Waves

19967.5

Manderlay

20056.9

Ça ne se refuse pas

19987.0

The Call

20186.3

The Pod Generation

20236.0

The Boss of It All

20066.6

King David

19855.7

Dimension

20105.5

Dolphin Man

20177.8

Hope and Glory

19876.9

Europa

19917.3

Cockles and Muscles

20056.0

Too Much Flesh

20004.0

Big Sur

20134.7

The Big Blue Adventure

198910.0

Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier

2023

Les Faussaires

19945.5

After the War

20176.9

Halo of Stars

2026

Le jour qui vient

2026

Silent Land

20224.8

Marching in Darkness

19965.8

Tara Road

20055.4

The Red Siren

20025.3

Hexameron

2026

Buğday

20175.8

Nucingen House

20096.3

The Anarchist's Wife

20085.6

The Car Keys

20035.2

Here’s Looking at You, Boy

20075.2

American Translation

20115.9

Making Plans for Lena

20095.6

St. Ives

19985.6

L'Échappée belle

19966.0

In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema

19987.0

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

20005.0

Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday

19984.8

The Infidels

19977.0

The Cellar

20183.0

Au nom d'un chien

1994

Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century

1997

Cut Off

20185.9

Anecdotes from Europa

20056.0

Meurtres en dentelles

20256.6

Mary's Sons

20026.0

The Plague

19925.8

The Other 300: Army of Lovers

20258.0

And They Call It Summer

20124.1

Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi

199710.0

Blaze

19916.8

What is Love?

20266.2

His Mother's Eyes

20115.4

The Academy

20255.7

Lifeline

19969.0

Wax - We Are The X

20167.2

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

19856.0

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

19977.4

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

20137.5

FreeDogme

20004.0

Whoever Was Using This Bed

201610.0

What I Did for Love

19985.2

My Best Part

20205.4

Parc

20093.6

Baby Blues

20085.1

The Rebellious

20243.5

The Scarlet Tunic

19985.1

Vandal

20136.7

blur | The Best Of

20008.3

Heavy Rain

20105.5

Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying

20114.2

City of Shadows

20105.5

CQ2 (Seek You Too)

20044.4

Saltimbank

20035.8

Iron Horsemen

19956.5

Le fils préféré

19946.6

This Is the End

20239.0

Hotel du Lac

19864.3

Being Light

20015.2

Le fil

2023

Manhattan Romance

2013

UK18

20176.0

The Last Mirage

2014