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Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

Birthday: 1960-09-27 | Place of Birth: Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Rope

as    Serge Morel

2022
Silent Land

as    diver Arnaud

2020
My Best Part

as    The director

2018
Bad Banks

as    Robert Khano

2018
Cut Off

as    Trevor De Blanc

2017
UK18

as    The Foreigner

2014
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

as    Debtor Gentleman

2013
Manhattan Romance

as    Alex

2013
Big Sur

as    Jack Kerouac

2013
Vandal

as    Paul, l'oncle

2011
His Mother's Eyes

as    Jean-Paul Tremazan

2011
American Translation

as    William

2008
Baby Blues

as    Dan

2008
The Anarchist's Wife

as    Pierre

2007
The Boss of It All

as    Spencer

2006
Manderlay

as    Mr. Robinsson

2005
Tara Road

as    Andy

2004
The Red Siren

as    Hugo

2004
CQ2 (Seek You Too)

as    Steven

2000
Too Much Flesh

as    Lyle

2000
Dancer in the Dark

as    Norman

1998
St. Ives

as    Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves

1998
The Scarlet Tunic

as    Matthaus Singer

1996
Breaking the Waves

as    Terry

1992
The Plague

as    Jean Tarrou

1992
Europa

as    Leopold Kessler