Jean-Marc Barr
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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".
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Movies (96)
Day Drinker
2027 · Father Lyon
What is Love?
2026 · Père Manto
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
2025 · Narrator (voice over)
Hexameron
2025 · Fr. Paulo
The Academy
2025 · Prof. Robert Copley
Meurtres en dentelles
2025 · Antoine Duprat
The Rebellious
2024 · Mr. Verger, Screenplay, Co-Producer, Director
La generación cápsula
2023 · The Founder
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
2023 · Jean-Marc Barr
This Is the End
2023 · Self
Le fil
2023
Silent Land
2022 · diver Arnaud
My Best Part
2020 · The director
La Casa De Jack
2018 · Thanks
The Cellar
2018 · Milan
The Call
2018 · (voice)
Aislados
2018 · Trevor De Blanc
Buğday
2017 · Erol
Dolphin Man
2017 · Self
After the War
2017 · Jérôme
UK18
2017 · The Foreigner
WAX: We Are the X
2016 · Jean-Christophe Touchalier
Whoever Was Using This Bed
2016 · Ray
The Last Mirage
2014 · Justin Livingstone
Ninfomanía: segunda parte
2013 · Debtor Gentleman
Left Over - Intimate Politics
2013 · Producer
Big Sur
2013 · Jack Kerouac
Manhattan Romance
2013 · Alex
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
2013 · Self
Vandal
2013 · Paul, l'oncle
And They Call It Summer
2012 · Dino
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
2012 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
2011 · Brian
American Translation
2011 · William, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
His Mother's Eyes
2011 · Jean-Paul Tremazan
Dimension
2010
City of Shadows
2010 · Dr. Max Orswell
Heavy Rain
2010 · Himself
Making Plans for Lena
2009 · Nigel
Nucingen House
2009 · William Henry James III
Parc
2009 · Paul Marteau
Baby Blues
2008 · Dan
The Anarchist's Wife
2008 · Pierre
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Self
The Boss of It All
2006 · Spencer
One to Another
2006 · Director, Director of Photography
Manderlay
2005 · Mr. Robinsson
Tara Road
2005 · Andy
Cockles and Muscles
2005 · Didier
Anecdotes from Europa
2005 · Interviewee
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
2004 · Steven
The Car Keys
2003 · Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
Saltimbank
2003 · Frédéric Saltim
Divorcio a la Francesa
2003 · Maitre Bertram
Dogville
2003 · The Man with the Big Hat
Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun
2002 · Camera Operator
The Red Siren
2002 · Hugo
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Director of Photography
Mary's Sons
2002 · Paul
Being Light
2001 · Jack Lesterhoof, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
blur | The Best Of
2000 · Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2000 · Self
Too Much Flesh
2000 · Lyle, Director, Writer, Producer
Bailando en la Oscuridad
2000 · Norman
FreeDogme
2000 · Himself
Lovers
1999 · Director, Producer, Writer
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
1998 · Ben
Ça ne se refuse pas
1998 · Alex
What I Did for Love
1998 · Marc
The Scarlet Tunic
1998 · Matthaus Singer
St. Ives
1998 · Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
1998 · Self
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997
The Infidels
1997
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
1997 · Self
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
1997 · Addy
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Terry
Lifeline
1996 · Patrick LeMay
Marching in Darkness
1996 · Silvio Roatto
L'Échappée belle
1996 · Manu Barnes
Iron Horsemen
1995 · Robert
Le fils préféré
1994 · Philippe
Les Faussaires
1994 · Jack Baker
Au nom d'un chien
1994 · Jean Grébault
The Plague
1992 · Jean Tarrou
Europa
1991 · Leopold Kessler
Blaze
1991 · Victor
The Big Blue Adventure
1989 · Self / Narrator
The Big Blue
1988 · Jacques Mayol
Maurice
1987 · French Colleague (uncredited)
Hope and Glory
1987 · Bruce
Hotel du Lac
1986 · Alain
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985 · Scott
King David
1985 · Absalom
Le jour qui vient
· Martin
Halo of Stars
· Gerald
TV shows (9)
Rey y Conquistador
2025 · King Henry of France
Sea Shadows
2025 · André
Antracita
2024 · Solal Heilman
The Rope
2022 · Serge Morel
Little Birds
2020 · Secretary Pierre Vaney
The Miracle
2018 · Serge
Bad Banks
2018 · Robert Khano
Blood On The Docks
2011 · Capitaine Richard Faraday
Le Repaire de la vouivre
2011 · Paul Pratt