Jean-Marc Barr
Acting
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.
The Other 300: Army of Lovers
as Narrator (voice over)
Age 64 (now 65)
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
as Jean-Marc Barr
Age 62 (now 65)
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
as Self
Age 53 (now 65)
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
Director of Photography
Age 51 (now 65) Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
Editor
Age 51 (now 65) Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
Producer
Age 51 (now 65) Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
Director
Age 51 (now 65)
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
as Brian
Age 51 (now 65)
Baby Einstein: Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun
Camera Operator
Age 41 (now 65)
Searching for Debra Winger
Director of Photography
Age 41 (now 65)
blur | The Best Of
as Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")
Age 40 (now 65)
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
as Self
Age 37 (now 65)
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
as Addy
Age 36 (now 65)
Death of a World Star
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 33 (now 65)
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
as Scott
Age 24 (now 65)
Gathering insights...
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