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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 Conser…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Jean-Marc Barr's Filmography
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Day Drinker
as Father Lyon
What is Love?
as Père Manto
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
as Narrator (voice over)
Hexameron
as Fr. Paulo
The Academy
as Prof. Robert Copley
Meurtres en dentelles
as Antoine Duprat
The Rebellious
as Mr. Verger
The Pod Generation
as The Founder
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
as Jean-Marc Barr
This Is the End
as Self
Le fil
Silent Land
as diver Arnaud
My Best Part
as The director
The Cellar
as Milan
The Call
as (voice)
Cut Off
as Trevor De Blanc
Buğday
as Erol
Dolphin Man
as Self
After the War
as Jérôme
UK18
as The Foreigner
WAX: We Are the X
as Jean-Christophe Touchalier
Whoever Was Using This Bed
as Ray
The Last Mirage
as Justin Livingstone
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
as Debtor Gentleman
Big Sur
as Jack Kerouac
Manhattan Romance
as Alex
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
as Self
Vandal
as Paul, l'oncle
And They Call It Summer
as Dino
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
as Brian
American Translation
as William
His Mother's Eyes
as Jean-Paul Tremazan
Dimension
City of Shadows
as Dr. Max Orswell
Heavy Rain
as Himself
Making Plans for Lena
as Nigel
Nucingen House
as William Henry James III
Parc
as Paul Marteau
Baby Blues
as Dan
The Anarchist's Wife
as Pierre
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self
The Boss of It All
as Spencer
Manderlay
as Mr. Robinsson
Tara Road
as Andy
Cockles and Muscles
as Didier
No Poster
Anecdotes from Europa
as Interviewee
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
as Steven
The Car Keys
as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
No Poster
Saltimbank
as Frédéric Saltim
Le Divorce
as Maitre Bertram
Dogville
as The Man with the Big Hat
The Red Siren
as Hugo
Mary's Sons
as Paul
Being Light
as Jack Lesterhoof
blur | The Best Of
as Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
as Self
Too Much Flesh
as Lyle
Dancer in the Dark
as Norman
FreeDogme
as Himself
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
as Ben
No Poster
Ça ne se refuse pas
as Alex
What I Did for Love
as Marc
The Scarlet Tunic
as Matthaus Singer
No Poster
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
as Self
St. Ives
as Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
The Infidels
No Poster
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
as Addy
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
as Self
Breaking the Waves
as Terry
Lifeline
as Patrick LeMay
Marching in Darkness
as Silvio Roatto
L'Échappée belle
as Manu Barnes
Iron Horsemen
as Robert
Le fils préféré
as Philippe
Les Faussaires
as Jack Baker
No Poster
Au nom d'un chien
as Jean Grébault
The Plague
as Jean Tarrou
Europa
as Leopold Kessler
Blaze
as Victor
The Big Blue Adventure
as Self / Narrator
The Big Blue
as Jacques Mayol
Maurice
as French Colleague (uncredited)
Hope and Glory
as Bruce
Hotel du Lac
as Alain
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
as Scott
King David
as Absalom
No Poster
Halo of Stars
as Gerald
No Poster
Le jour qui vient
as Martin