Cast

Jean-Marc Barr

Acting

Cast

Jean-Marc Barr

Known for

Acting

Born

1960-09-27

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.

Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

Biography

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

Ça ne se refuse pas

Dogville

The Big Blue

Dancer in the Dark

Maurice

Manderlay

Les Faussaires

Dimension

Silent Land

The Pod Generation

After the War

Breaking the Waves

Marching in Darkness

Halo of Stars

Big Sur

Hexameron

The Infidels

The Call

Meurtres en dentelles

Nucingen House

Dolphin Man

The Big Blue Adventure

Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier

The Red Siren

Cockles and Muscles

Le jour qui vient

Le Divorce

My Best Part

Europa

Too Much Flesh

King David

What is Love?

American Translation

Hope and Glory

Mary's Sons

His Mother's Eyes

L'Échappée belle

FreeDogme

Buğday

The Academy

Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations

The Boss of It All

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

Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century

The Car Keys

The Plague

UK18

What I Did for Love

And They Call It Summer

Lifeline

Anecdotes from Europa

Tara Road

Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying

Heavy Rain

Le fils préféré

blur | The Best Of

Making Plans for Lena

Hotel du Lac

St. Ives

Being Light

Cut Off

Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi

City of Shadows

Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday

The Anarchist's Wife

This Is the End

The Cellar

Le fil

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

Baby Blues

Blaze

Parc

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Wax - We Are The X

Vandal

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95