Jean-Marc Barr

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.

Known For

Norman

Dancer in the Dark

Terry

Breaking the Waves

Jacques Mayol

Le Grand Bleu

Didier

Crustacés et coquillages

The Man with the Big Hat

Dogville

Jack Lesterhoof

Being Light

Andy

Tara Road

Spencer

Direktøren for det hele

Self

This Is the End

Nigel

Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras Pas Danser

Bruce

Hope and Glory

Leopold Kessler

Europa

Martin

Le jour qui vient

Dan

Baby Blues

Dr. Max Orswell

La Cité

Robert

Iron Horsemen

Alex

Ça ne se refuse pas

Jean-Paul Tremazan

Les Yeux de sa mère

Philippe

Le fils préféré

Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves

St. Ives

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

Ben

J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche

William

American Translation

Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

Les Clefs de bagnole

Matthaus Singer

The Scarlet Tunic

Hugo

La sirène rouge

Marc

Folle d'elle

Lyle

Too Much Flesh

Jack Kerouac

Big Sur

Paul Marteau

Parc

Dino

E la chiamano estate

Paul, l'oncle

Vandal

William Henry James III

La Maison Nucingen

Frédéric Saltim

Saltimbank

Alex

Manhattan Romance

Victor

Le brasier

The Founder

The Pod Generation

Self

Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

Self

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

Himself

Heavy Rain

Steven

CQ2: Tout près du sol

Paul

Les fils de Marie

Debtor Gentleman

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Pierre

The Anarchist's Wife

Jean Tarrou

La peste

diver Arnaud

Cicha ziemia

Jean-Marc Barr

Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier

Brian

Praktičan vodič kroz Beograd sa pevanjem i plakanjem

Erol

Buğday

Self

Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi

Mr. Verger

Les Indociles

Alain

Hotel du Lac

Self

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

Silvio Roatto

Marciando nel buio

Jean-Christophe Touchalier

Wax - We Are The X

Prof. Robert Copley

Die Akademie

Jack Baker

Les Faussaires

Gerald

Halo of Stars

Fr. Paulo

Hexameron

The Foreigner

UK18

French Colleague (uncredited)

Maurice

Self

Dolphin Man

Interviewee

Anecdotes from Europa

Jérôme

Dopo la guerra

(voice)

Telefonul

Milan

Pivnica

Himself

FreeDogme

Mr. Robinsson

Manderlay

Les Infidèles

Dimension

The director

Garçon chiffon

Trevor De Blanc

Cut Off

Ray

Whoever Was Using This Bed

Maitre Bertram

Le Divorce

Justin Livingstone

السراب الأخير

Scott

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Patrick LeMay

Lifeline

Absalom

King David

Manu Barnes

L'Échappée belle

Antoine Duprat

Meurtres en dentelles

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tod eines Weltstars

Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")

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