Jean-Marc Barr
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.
Born: 27 September 1960
Played In
What is Love?
King & Conqueror
King Henry of France
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
Narrator (voice over)
The Academy
Prof. Robert Copley
Meurtres en dentelles
Antoine Duprat
Sea Shadows
André
Anthracite
Solal Heilman
The Rebellious
Mr. Verger
The Pod Generation
The Founder
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
Jean-Marc Barr
This Is the End
Self
Le fil
Silent Land
diver Arnaud
The Rope
Serge Morel
My Best Part
The director
Little Birds
Secretary Pierre Vaney
The Cellar
Milan
The Call
(voice)
The Miracle
Serge
Cut Off
Trevor De Blanc
Bad Banks
Robert Khano
Buğday
Erol
Dolphin Man
Self
After the War
Jérôme
UK18
The Foreigner
Wax - We Are The X
Jean-Christophe Touchalier
Whoever Was Using This Bed
Ray
The Last Mirage
Justin Livingstone
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Debtor Gentleman
Big Sur
Jack Kerouac
Manhattan Romance
Alex
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
Self
Vandal
Paul, l'oncle
And They Call It Summer
Dino
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
Brian
Blood On The Docks
Capitaine Richard Faraday
Le Repaire de la vouivre
Paul Pratt
American Translation
William
His Mother's Eyes
Jean-Paul Tremazan
Dimension
City of Shadows
Dr. Max Orswell
Heavy Rain
Himself
Making Plans for Lena
Nigel
Nucingen House
William Henry James III
Parc
Paul Marteau
Baby Blues
Dan
The Anarchist's Wife
Pierre
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
The Boss of It All
Spencer
Manderlay
Mr. Robinsson
Tara Road
Andy
Cockles and Muscles
Didier
Anecdotes from Europa
Interviewee
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
Steven
The Car Keys
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Saltimbank
Frédéric Saltim
Le Divorce
Maitre Bertram
Dogville
The Man with the Big Hat
The Red Siren
Hugo
Mary's Sons
Paul
Being Light
Jack Lesterhoof
blur | The Best Of
Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Self
Too Much Flesh
Lyle
Dancer in the Dark
Norman
FreeDogme
Himself
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Ben
Ça ne se refuse pas
Alex
What I Did for Love
Marc
The Scarlet Tunic
Matthaus Singer
St. Ives
Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
Self
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
The Infidels
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
Self
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
Addy
Breaking the Waves
Terry
Lifeline
Patrick LeMay
Marching in Darkness
Silvio Roatto
L'Échappée belle
Manu Barnes
Iron Horsemen
Robert
Le fils préféré
Philippe
Les Faussaires
Jack Baker
Au nom d'un chien
Jean Grébault
The Plague
Jean Tarrou
Europa
Leopold Kessler
Blaze
Victor
The Big Blue Adventure
Self / Narrator
The Big Blue
Jacques Mayol
Maurice
French Colleague (uncredited)
Hope and Glory
Bruce
Hotel du Lac
Alain
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Scott
King David
Absalom
Le jour qui vient
Martin
Halo of Stars
Gerald
Hexameron
Fr. Paulo