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Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

Actor · b. 1960 · 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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  • Movie6.7

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    2013 · 3.3K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Le Grand Bleu

    The Big Blue

    1988 · 1.6K votes

  • Movie7.8

    Dancer in the Dark

    2000 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.7

    Dogville

    2003 · 2.8K votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Pod Generation

    2023 · 275 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Maurice

    1987 · 633 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Breaking the Waves

    1996 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Manderlay

    2005 · 417 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Europa

    1991 · 372 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Le Divorce

    2003 · 172 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Hope and Glory

    1987 · 225 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Direktøren for det hele

    The Boss of It All

    2006 · 331 votes

  • Movie5.7

    King David

    1985 · 67 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Telefonul

    The Call

    2018 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.1

    C’est quoi l’amour ?

    What is Love?

    2026 · 47 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Dolphin Man

    2017 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.3

    La sirène rouge

    The Red Siren

    2002 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Les Clefs de bagnole

    The Car Keys

    2003 · 88 votes

  • Movie4.0

    Too Much Flesh

    2000 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Buğday

    2017 · 34 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Big Sur

    2013 · 35 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Cicha ziemia

    Silent Land

    2022 · 14 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Les Infidèles

    The Infidels

    1997 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.8

    J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche

    Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday

    1998 · 20 votes

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  • TV7.2

    King & Conqueror

    2025 · 79 votes

  • TV6.2

    Anthracite

    2024 · 116 votes

  • TV6.6

    Little Birds

    2020 · 127 votes

  • TV7.3

    Bad Banks

    2018 · 97 votes

  • TV7.2

    Il miracolo

    The Miracle

    2018 · 45 votes

  • TV6.8

    Rivages

    Sea Shadows

    2025 · 12 votes

  • TV4.4

    La Corde

    The Rope

    2022 · 19 votes

  • TV6.0

    Deux flics sur les docks

    Blood On The Docks

    2011 · 5 votes

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