1960-09-27 ( 64 years old ) in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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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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Movies
The Academy
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Meurtres en dentelles
2025-03-09
The Rebellious
2024-01-01
The Pod Generation
2023-08-11
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
2023-07-02
This Is the End
2023-02-16
Silent Land
2022-08-23
My Best Part
2020-10-28
The Cellar
2018-08-27
The Call
2018-06-01
Cut Off
2018-04-20
Buğday
2017-11-24
Dolphin Man
2017-10-28
After the War
2017-10-19
UK18
2017-04-19
Wax - We Are The X
2016-03-31
Whoever Was Using This Bed
2016-01-13
The Last Mirage
2014-02-14
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013-12-25
Big Sur
2013-11-01
Manhattan Romance
2013-10-15
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
2013-10-12
Vandal
2013-10-09
And They Call It Summer
2012-11-22
American Translation
2011-06-07
His Mother's Eyes
2011-03-23
Dimension
2010-08-24
City of Shadows
2010-04-09
Heavy Rain
2010-02-23
Making Plans for Lena
2009-09-02
Nucingen House
2009-06-03
Parc
2009-01-14
Baby Blues
2008-11-26
The Anarchist's Wife
2008-06-26
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007-02-16
The Boss of It All
2006-12-08
Manderlay
2005-06-03
Tara Road
2005-05-11
Cockles and Muscles
2005-03-30
Anecdotes from Europa
2005-01-01
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
2004-09-13
The Car Keys
2003-12-10
Saltimbank
2003-09-10
Le Divorce
2003-08-08
Dogville
2003-05-21
The Red Siren
2002-08-21
Mary's Sons
2002-05-19
Being Light
2001-12-05
blur | The Best Of
2000-11-28
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2000-11-01
Too Much Flesh
2000-09-24
Dancer in the Dark
2000-09-01
FreeDogme
2000-01-01
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
1998-09-13
Ça ne se refuse pas
1998-08-12
What I Did for Love
1998-06-17
The Scarlet Tunic
1998-06-12
St. Ives
1998-01-01
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997-12-12
The Infidels
1997-01-02
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
1997-01-01
Breaking the Waves
1996-07-05
Lifeline
1996-05-15
Marching in Darkness
1996-04-27
L'Échappée belle
1996-03-27
Iron Horsemen
1995-01-27
Le fils préféré
1994-12-21
Les Faussaires
1994-11-23
Death of a World Star
1994-06-01
The Plague
1992-08-26
Europa
1991-06-27
Blaze
1991-05-26
The Big Blue
1988-05-10
Maurice
1987-09-18
Hope and Glory
1987-09-03
Hotel du Lac
1986-03-02
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985-05-08
King David
1985-03-29
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