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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1960-09-27
Location
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Edit pageJean Marc Barr
Biography
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 (1991).
In 1991, Barr 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 Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2004), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of It All (2006), and Nymph()maniac (2013). In 2005 he starred in the French film Crustacés et Coquillages.
In 1999 he starred in the French cinéma du corps/cinema of the body drama film, Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (French: J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche), directed by Didier Le Pêcheur.
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.
