Jean-Marc Barr
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1960-09-27 (64 years old)
Place of Birth Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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
Actor
as Martin
as Gerald
as Fr. Paulo
as Antoine Duprat
as André
as King Henry
as Mr. Verger
as Solal Heilman
as The Founder
as Jean-Marc Barr
as Self
as diver Arnaud
as Serge Morel
as The director
as Secretary Pierre Vaney
as Milan
as (voice)
as Trevor De Blanc
as Serge
as Robert Khano
as Erol
as Self
as Jérôme
as The Foreigner
as Jean-Christophe Touchalier
as Ray
as Justin Livingstone
as Debtor Gentleman
as Jack Kerouac
as Alex
as Paul, l'oncle
as Dino
as William
as Jean-Paul Tremazan
as Capitaine Richard Faraday
as Paul Pratt
as Dr. Max Orswell
as Nigel
as William Henry James III
as Paul Marteau
as Dan
as Pierre
as Self
as Spencer
as Mr. Robinsson
as Andy
as Didier
as Interviewee
as Steven
as Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
as Frédéric Saltim
as Maitre Bertram
as The Man with the Big Hat
as Hugo
as Paul
as Jack Lesterhoof
as Self
as Lyle
as Norman
as Himself
as Ben
as Alex
as Marc
as Matthaus Singer
as Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
as Self
as Terry
as Patrick LeMay
as Silvio Roatto
as Emmanuel Barnes
as Robert
as Philippe
as Jack Baker
as Jean Tarrou
as Leopold Kessler
as Victor
as Jacques Mayol
as French Colleague (uncredited)
as Bruce
as Alain
as Absalom
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Co-Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
Camera
as Director of Photography
as Director of Photography
as Director of Photography
as Director of Photography
as Camera Operator
Writer
as Screenplay
as Writer
as Writer
as Writer
Editor
as Editor
as Editor
Crew
as Thanks