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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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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Known for
The Academy
Anthracite
The Rebellious
The Pod Generation
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
This Is the End
Silent Land
The Rope
My Best Part
Little Birds
The Cellar
The House That Jack Built
The Call
The Miracle
Cut Off
Bad Banks
Buğday
Dolphin Man
After the War
UK18
Wax - We Are The X
Whoever Was Using This Bed
The Last Mirage
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Big Sur
Manhattan Romance
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
Vandal
And They Call It Summer
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
Blood On The Docks
Le Repaire de la vouivre
American Translation
His Mother's Eyes
Dimension
City of Shadows
Heavy Rain
Making Plans for Lena
Parc
Baby Blues
Nucingen House
The Anarchist's Wife
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
The Boss of It All
One to Another
Manderlay
Tara Road
Cockles and Muscles
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
The Car Keys
Le Divorce
Dogville
Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun
The Red Siren
Searching for Debra Winger
Being Light
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Too Much Flesh
Dancer in the Dark
FreeDogme
Lovers
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
What I Did for Love
St. Ives
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
The Infidels
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
Breaking the Waves
Lifeline
Marching in Darkness
L'Échappée belle
Iron Horsemen
Le fils préféré
Les Faussaires
The Plague
Europa
Blaze
The Big Blue
Maurice
Hope and Glory
Hotel du Lac
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
King David