Jean-Marc Barr

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-09-27 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Jean-Marc Barr

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 Unive...

Acting

2000

1996

1988

The Big Blue

as Jacques Mayol

2005

2003

Dogville

as The Man with the Big Hat

2001

Being Light

as Jack Lesterhoof

2005

Tara Road

as Andy

2006

2023

1987

1991

Europa

as Leopold Kessler

2008

2010

City of Shadows

as Dr. Max Orswell

1995

Iron Horsemen

as Robert

2011

His Mother's Eyes

as Jean-Paul Tremazan

1994

1998

St. Ives

as Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves

2011

2003

The Car Keys

as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

1998

The Scarlet Tunic

as Matthaus Singer

2002

2000

2013

Big Sur

as Jack Kerouac

2009

Parc

as Paul Marteau

2013

Vandal

as Paul, l'oncle

2009

Nucingen House

as William Henry James III

2003

Saltimbank

as Frédéric Saltim

1991

Blaze

as Victor

2023

The Pod Generation

as The Founder

2010

Heavy Rain

as Himself

2004

2002

2013

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

as Debtor Gentleman

1992

The Plague

as Jean Tarrou

2022

Silent Land

as diver Arnaud

2017

Buğday

as Erol

2024

The Rebellious

as Mr. Verger

1986

Hotel du Lac

as Alain

1996

Marching in Darkness

as Silvio Roatto

2016

Wax - We Are The X

as Jean-Christophe Touchalier

2025

The Academy

as Prof. Robert Copley

1994

Les Faussaires

as Jack Baker

-

Halo of Stars

as Gerald

-

Hexameron

as Fr. Paulo

2017

UK18

as The Foreigner

1987

Maurice

as French Colleague (uncredited)

2017

2005

Anecdotes from Europa

as Interviewee

2017

After the War

as Jérôme

2018

The Call

as (voice)

2018

The Cellar

as Milan

2000

FreeDogme

as Himself

2005

Manderlay

as Mr. Robinsson

2020

My Best Part

as The director

2018

Cut Off

as Trevor De Blanc

2003

Le Divorce

as Maitre Bertram

2014

The Last Mirage

as Justin Livingstone

1996

Lifeline

as Patrick LeMay

1985

King David

as Absalom

1996

L'Échappée belle

as Manu Barnes

2025

Meurtres en dentelles

as Antoine Duprat

1994

Death of a World Star

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000

blur | The Best Of

as Charmless Man (video "Charmless Man")

Production

1999

Lovers

as Director

1999

Lovers

as Producer

2006

One to Another

as Director

2011

2000

Too Much Flesh

as Director

2000

1999

Lovers

as Writer

2024

The Rebellious

as Screenplay

2024

The Rebellious

as Co-Producer

2006

One to Another

as Director of Photography

2024

The Rebellious

as Director

2001

Being Light

as Director

2002

Searching for Debra Winger

as Director of Photography

2012

Sexual Chronicles of a French Family

as Director of Photography

2001

Being Light

as Executive Producer

2001

Being Light

as Writer

2011

2011

American Translation

as Director of Photography

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