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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 27, 1960
Place of Birth
Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Jean-Marc Barr
0.6 Popularity
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
7.0
King Henry of France
King & Conqueror
2025
8.0
Narrator (voice over)
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
2025
6.0
Prof. Robert Copley
The Academy
2025
6.3
Antoine Duprat
Meurtres en dentelles
2025
6.8
André
Rivages
2025
6.3
Solal Heilman
Anthracite
2024
3.5
Mr. Verger
The Rebellious
2024
6.0
The Founder
The Pod Generation
2023
0.0
Jean-Marc Barr
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
2023
9.0
Self
This Is the End
2023
Credits
King & Conqueror
as King Henry of France
2025
7.0
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
as Narrator (voice over)
2025
8.0
The Academy
as Prof. Robert Copley
2025
6.0
Meurtres en dentelles
as Antoine Duprat
2025
6.3
Rivages
as André
2025
6.8
Anthracite
as Solal Heilman
2024
6.3
The Rebellious
as Mr. Verger
2024
3.5
The Pod Generation
as The Founder
2023
6.0
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
as Jean-Marc Barr
2023
0.0
This Is the End
as Self
2023
9.0
Silent Land
as diver Arnaud
2022
4.9
The Rope
as Serge Morel
2022
4.3
My Best Part
as The director
2020
5.3
Little Birds
as Secretary Pierre Vaney
2020
6.6
The Cellar
as Milan
2018
2.8
The Call
as (voice)
2018
6.3
The Miracle
as Serge
2018
7.2
Cut Off
as Trevor De Blanc
2018
5.9
Bad Banks
as Robert Khano
2018
7.3
Buğday
as Erol
2017
5.8
Dolphin Man
as Self
2017
7.5
After the War
as Jérôme
2017
6.9
UK18
as The Foreigner
2017
6.0
Wax - We Are The X
as Jean-Christophe Touchalier
2016
7.2
Whoever Was Using This Bed
as Ray
2016
10.0
The Last Mirage
as Justin Livingstone
2014
0.0
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
as Debtor Gentleman
2013
6.7
Big Sur
as Jack Kerouac
2013
4.6
Manhattan Romance
as Alex
2013
0.0
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
as Self
2013
7.5
Vandal
as Paul, l'oncle
2013
6.7
And They Call It Summer
as Dino
2012
4.2
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
as Brian
2011
4.2
Blood On The Docks
as Capitaine Richard Faraday
2011
6.0
Le Repaire de la vouivre
as Paul Pratt
2011
0.0
American Translation
as William
2011
5.8
His Mother's Eyes
as Jean-Paul Tremazan
2011
5.4
Dimension
2010
5.3
City of Shadows
as Dr. Max Orswell
2010
5.5
Heavy Rain
as Himself
2010
2.0
Making Plans for Lena
as Nigel
2009
5.5
Nucingen House
as William Henry James III
2009
6.6
Parc
as Paul Marteau
2009
3.6
Baby Blues
as Dan
2008
5.1
The Anarchist's Wife
as Pierre
2008
5.5
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
2007
4.8
The Boss of It All
as Spencer
2006
6.6
Manderlay
as Mr. Robinsson
2005
6.9
Tara Road
as Andy
2005
5.2
Cockles and Muscles
as Didier
2005
5.8
🎬
Anecdotes from Europa
as Interviewee
2005
6.0
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
as Steven
2004
3.9
The Car Keys
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
2003
5.2
🎬
Saltimbank
as Frédéric Saltim
2003
5.0
Le Divorce
as Maitre Bertram
2003
5.0
Dogville
as The Man with the Big Hat
2003
7.8
The Red Siren
as Hugo
2002
5.1
Mary's Sons
as Paul
2002
5.0
Being Light
as Jack Lesterhoof
2001
4.3
blur | The Best Of
as Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
2000
8.5
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
as Self
2000
3.5
Too Much Flesh
as Lyle
2000
3.8
Dancer in the Dark
as Norman
2000
7.9
FreeDogme
as Himself
2000
4.0
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
as Ben
1998
4.4
🎬
Ça ne se refuse pas
as Alex
1998
0.0
What I Did for Love
as Marc
1998
4.7
🎬
The Scarlet Tunic
as Matthaus Singer
1998
4.5
St. Ives
as Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
1998
5.4
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997
6.8
The Infidels
1997
0.0
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
as Self
1997
10.0
Breaking the Waves
as Terry
1996
7.5
Lifeline
as Patrick LeMay
1996
0.0
Marching in Darkness
as Silvio Roatto
1996
5.4
L'Échappée belle
as Manu Barnes
1996
4.0
Iron Horsemen
as Robert
1995
6.0
Le fils préféré
as Philippe
1994
6.6
Les Faussaires
as Jack Baker
1994
4.9
Death of a World Star
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
10.0
The Plague
as Jean Tarrou
1992
5.7
Europa
as Leopold Kessler
1991
7.4
Blaze
as Victor
1991
5.5
The Big Blue Adventure
as Self / Narrator
1989
10.0
The Big Blue
as Jacques Mayol
1988
7.4
Maurice
as French Colleague (uncredited)
1987
7.6
Hope and Glory
as Bruce
1987
6.9
Hotel du Lac
as Alain
1986
3.0
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
as Scott
1985
4.0
King David
as Absalom
1985
5.6
🎬
Halo of Stars
as Gerald
N/A
0.0
Hexameron
as Fr. Paulo
N/A
0.0
🎬
Le jour qui vient
as Martin
N/A
0.0