Actor
Jean-Marc Barr
September 27, 1960 · Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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.
Notable work
6.7Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
as Debtor Gentleman
7.8Dogville (2003)
as The Man with the Big Hat
7.8Dancer in the Dark (2000)
as Norman
7.4The Big Blue (1988)
as Jacques Mayol
7.5Breaking the Waves (1996)
as Terry
7.6Maurice (1987)
as French Colleague (uncredited)
6.9Manderlay (2005)
as Mr. Robinsson
5.4Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Director
7.3Europa (1991)
as Leopold Kessler
6.6The Boss of It All (2006)
as Spencer
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