Jean-Marc Barr
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Jean-Marc Barr (born on September 27, 1960 in Bitburg, 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 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, Irina, a pianist.
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 1980’s.
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).
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".
Filmographie
Acteur
- 1984 : The Frog Prince, de Brian Gilbert
- 1985 : Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story, de Don Taylor (TV)
- 1985 : Le Roi David (King David), de Bruce Beresford
- 1986 : Hôtel du Lac, de Giles Foster (TV)
- 1987 : La Guerre à sept ans (Hope and Glory), de John Boorman
- 1988 : Le Grand Bleu, de Luc Besson
- 1991 : Le Brasier, d'Éric Barbier
- 1991 : Europa, de Lars von Trier
- 1992 : La Peste, de Luis Puenzo
- 1993 : Au nom d'un chien, de Laurent Malet (court-métrage)
- 1994 : Les Faussaires, de Frédéric Blum
- 1994 : Le Fils préféré, de Nicole Garcia
- 1995 : Mon capitaine, un homme d'honneur (Marciando nel buio), de Massimo Spano
- 1995 : Iron Horsemen, de Gilles Charmant
- 1996 : L'Échappée belle, d'Étienne Dhaene
- 1996 : Cap danger (Lifeline), de Fred Gerber (TV)
- 1996 : Breaking the Waves, de Lars von Trier
- 1996 : Mo', de Yves-Noël François
- 1997 : Les Infidèles, de Randa Chahal Sabagg (TV)
- 1998 : The Scarlet Tunic, de Stuart St. Paul
- 1998 : La Préférence (Préférence), de Grégoire Delacourt
- 1998 : Folle d'elle, de Jérôme Cornuau
- 1998 : Ça ne se refuse pas, d'Éric Woreth
- 1998 : J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche, de Didier Le Pêcheur
- 1998 : St. Ives, de Harry Hook
- 2000 : Dancer in the Dark, de Lars von Trier
- 2000 : Too Much Flesh, de Pascal Arnold et Jean-Marc Barr
- 2000 : The Best of Blur, de Jamie Thraves (vidéo) (video Charmless Man)
- 2001 : Being Light, de Pascal Arnold et Jean-Marc Barr
- 2002 : Les Fils de Marie, de Carole Laure
- 2002 : La Sirène rouge, d'Olivier Megaton
- 2003 : Dogville, de Lars von Trier
- 2003 : Saltimbank, de Jean-Claude Biette
- 2003 : Le Divorce, de James Ivory
- 2003 : Les Clefs de bagnole, de Laurent Baffie
- 2004 : Sauf l'amour (Without Love), de Pascal Arnold et Jean-Marc Barr
- 2004 : Tout près du sol (CQ2 (Seek You Too)), de Carole Laure
- 2005 : Crustacés et coquillages, d'Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau
- 2005 : Manderlay, de Lars von Trier
- 2005 : Tara Road, de Gillies MacKinnon
- 2006 : Le Direktør, de Lars von Trier
Réalisateur
- 1999 : Lovers
- 2000 : Too Much Flesh
- 2001 : Being Light
- 2004 : Sauf l'amour (Without Love)
