Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr (born September 27, 1960) is a French-American film actor and director. He is best known for working on several films from Danish film director and frequent collaborator Lars von Trier since Europa.

Early life and education

Barr was born to a French mother and an American father working in the United States Armed Forces. He is fluent in both French and English. Barr was born in West Germany where his father was stationed, and lived an itinerant childhood. His family moved to France in 1968, then to California in 1974.

Barr's parents wished for him to join the armed forces, but he was unwilling to follow in his father's footsteps. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, then at the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. He moved to London to pursue an education in drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In 1997, Barr appeared in The Scarlet Tunic, produced by Zigi Kamasa. He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002 and played divorce lawyer Maître Bertram in the 2003 Merchant Ivory film le Divorce. He appeared as the titular character in the video for Blur's 1996 single, "Charmless Man".

In 2010, he starred in Kim Nguyen's film City of Shadows (La Cité). Barr played author Jack Kerouac in the 2013 film adaptation of the Beat Generation autobiographical novel Big Sur.

Filmography

Film Sam Follow 1998 The Scarlet Tunic|Matthaus Singer 1998 Préférence|Simon 1998 Folle d'elle|Marc 1998 Ça ne se refuse pas|Alex 1998 Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday|Ben 1998 St. Ives Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves 2000 Dancer in the Dark|Norman 2000 Too Much Flesh|Lyle 2001 Being Light|Jack Lesterhoof 2002 Marie's Sons|Paul 2002 The Red Siren|Hugo Cornelius Toorop 2003 Dogville|The Man with the Big Hat 2003 Saltimbank|Frédéric Saltim 2003 The Divorce|Maitre Bertram 2003 The Car Keys|Un comédien 2004 CQ2 (Seek You Too)|Steven 2005 Crustacés & Coquillages|Didier 2005 Manderlay|Mr. Robinsson 2005 Tara Road Andy Vine 2006 One to Another|Phillipe 2006 The Boss of It All|Spencer 2008 Baby Blues Dan 2008 The Anarchist's Wife|Pierre 2008 Parc Paul Marteau 2008 Nucingen House|William Henry James III 2009 Making Plans for Lena|Nigel 2010 The City of Shadows|Maxime Vincent 2011 His Mother's Eyes|Jean-Paul Tremazan 2011 American Translation|William 2011 Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying|Brian 2012 Niccolò Machiavelli il Principe della politica|Niccolò Machiavelli 2012 They Call It Summer|Dino 2013 Big Sur Jack Kerouac 2013 Manhattan Romance|Alex 2013 Vandal|Paul, l'oncle 2013 Nymphomaniac Debtor Gentleman 2014 The Last Mirage|Justin Livingstone 2015 WAX: We Are the X|Jean-Christophe Touchalier 2017 uk18|The Foreigner 2017 After the War Jérome 2017 Grain Erol 2017 Cut Off Trevor De Blanc 2018 The Cellar|Milan 2018 The House that Jack Built|Leopold Kessler Archive footage only; uncredited 2020 My Best Part|Le réalisateur 2021 Aleksandar od Jugoslavije|Ferdinand Foch 2021 Silent Land|Arnaud 2023 The Pod Generation''The Founder

Theatre

Television