Jean-Marc Barr
Acting • Born 1960-09-27
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.
Filmography
95 credits
Dancer in the Dark
Movie • 2000
Norman
Breaking the Waves
Movie • 1996
Terry
The Big Blue
Movie • 1988
Jacques Mayol
Cockles and Muscles
Movie • 2005
Didier
Dogville
Movie • 2003
The Man with the Big Hat
Being Light
Movie • 2001
Jack Lesterhoof
Tara Road
Movie • 2005
Andy
The Boss of It All
Movie • 2006
Spencer
This Is the End
Movie • 2023
Self
Making Plans for Lena
Movie • 2009
Nigel
Hope and Glory
Movie • 1987
Bruce
Europa
Movie • 1991
Leopold Kessler
Le jour qui vient
Movie
Martin
Baby Blues
Movie • 2008
Dan
City of Shadows
Movie • 2010
Dr. Max Orswell
Iron Horsemen
Movie • 1995
Robert
Ça ne se refuse pas
Movie • 1998
Alex
His Mother's Eyes
Movie • 2011
Jean-Paul Tremazan
Le fils préféré
Movie • 1994
Philippe
St. Ives
Movie • 1998
Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
Movie • 1997
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Movie • 1998
Ben
American Translation
Movie • 2011
William
The Car Keys
Movie • 2003
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
The Scarlet Tunic
Movie • 1998
Matthaus Singer
The Red Siren
Movie • 2002
Hugo
What I Did for Love
Movie • 1998
Marc
Too Much Flesh
Movie • 2000
Lyle
Big Sur
Movie • 2013
Jack Kerouac
Parc
Movie • 2009
Paul Marteau
And They Call It Summer
Movie • 2012
Dino
Vandal
Movie • 2013
Paul, l'oncle
Nucingen House
Movie • 2009
William Henry James III
Saltimbank
Movie • 2003
Frédéric Saltim
Manhattan Romance
Movie • 2013
Alex
Blaze
Movie • 1991
Victor
The Pod Generation
Movie • 2023
The Founder
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Movie • 2007
Self
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
Movie • 2013
Self
Heavy Rain
Movie • 2010
Himself
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
Movie • 2004
Steven
Mary's Sons
Movie • 2002
Paul
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Movie • 2013
Debtor Gentleman
The Anarchist's Wife
Movie • 2008
Pierre
The Plague
Movie • 1992
Jean Tarrou
Silent Land
Movie • 2022
diver Arnaud
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
Movie • 2023
Jean-Marc Barr
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
Movie • 2011
Brian
Buğday
Movie • 2017
Erol
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
Movie • 1997
Self
The Rebellious
Movie • 2024
Mr. Verger
Hotel du Lac
Movie • 1986
Alain
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Movie • 2000
Self
Marching in Darkness
Movie • 1996
Silvio Roatto
Wax - We Are The X
Movie • 2016
Jean-Christophe Touchalier
The Academy
Movie • 2025
Prof. Robert Copley
Les Faussaires
Movie • 1994
Jack Baker
Halo of Stars
Movie
Gerald
Hexameron
Movie
Fr. Paulo
UK18
Movie • 2017
The Foreigner
Maurice
Movie • 1987
French Colleague (uncredited)
Dolphin Man
Movie • 2017
Self
Anecdotes from Europa
Movie • 2005
Interviewee
After the War
Movie • 2017
Jérôme
The Call
Movie • 2018
(voice)
The Cellar
Movie • 2018
Milan
FreeDogme
Movie • 2000
Himself
Manderlay
Movie • 2005
Mr. Robinsson
The Infidels
Movie • 1997
Dimension
Movie • 2010
My Best Part
Movie • 2020
The director
Cut Off
Movie • 2018
Trevor De Blanc
Whoever Was Using This Bed
Movie • 2016
Ray
Le Divorce
Movie • 2003
Maitre Bertram
The Last Mirage
Movie • 2014
Justin Livingstone
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Movie • 1985
Scott
Lifeline
Movie • 1996
Patrick LeMay
King David
Movie • 1985
Absalom
L'Échappée belle
Movie • 1996
Manu Barnes
Meurtres en dentelles
Movie • 2025
Antoine Duprat
Death of a World Star
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
blur | The Best Of
Movie • 2000
Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
The Big Blue Adventure
Movie • 1989
Self / Narrator
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
Movie • 2025
Narrator (voice over)
Au nom d'un chien
Movie • 1994
Jean Grébault
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
Movie • 1997
Addy
Blood On The Docks
TV • 2011
Capitaine Richard Faraday
The Rope
TV • 2022
Serge Morel
Sea Shadows
TV • 2025
André
Bad Banks
TV • 2018
Robert Khano
Anthracite
TV • 2024
Solal Heilman
The Miracle
TV • 2018
Serge
Le Repaire de la vouivre
TV • 2011
Paul Pratt
Little Birds
TV • 2020
Secretary Pierre Vaney
King & Conqueror
TV • 2025
King Henry of France