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Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr

Highest Rated: 96% Hope and Glory (1987)

Lowest Rated: 0% Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)

Birthday: Sep 27, 1960

Birthplace: Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Extraordinarily handsome, classically trained actor who made his film debut as Absalom in Bruce Beresford's 1985 biblical bomb, "King David." Fluent in several languages, Barr earned his first leading role as champion diver Jacques Mayol in Luc Besson's "The Big Blue" (1988), a huge hit in France which failed to find an international audience. He enjoyed more success on the arthouse circuit with his fine work as the hapless hero of Lars von Trier's stunning WWII film, "Zentropa" (1991). Barr also did well as an American scholar who travels to Tahiti to do research on Gaugin and forms an odd relationship with an amiable con man in "The Imposters" (1994), and reteamed with von Trier for the striking epic romance "Breaking the Waves" (1996).

Highest rated movies

96% Hope and Glory
90% Silent Land
88% My Best Part
84% Breaking the Waves
82% Europa
74% The Boss of It All
70% Dogville
70% Dancer in the Dark

Photos

Jean-Marc Barr ONE TO ANOTHER, (aka CHACUN SA NUIT), directors Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold, on set, 2006. ©La Fabrique de Films THE PLAGUE, (aka LA PESTA), from left: Jean-Marc Barr, William Hurt, 1992, © Araba Films LE DIVORCE, Jean-Marc Barr, Naomi Watts, 2003, (c) Fox Searchlight HOPE AND GLORY, Sammi Davis, Jean-Marc Barr, 1987 HOPE AND GLORY, Susan Wooldridge, Derrick O'Connor, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Jean-Marc Barr, Sarah Miles, Annie Leon, Ian Bannen, (bottom, l to r): Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Katrine Boorman, Amelda Brown, Jill Baker, & Geraldine Muir, 1987. CRUSTACES ET COQUILLAGES, Jean-Marc Barr, 2005 CRUSTACES ET COQUILLAGES, Jean-Marc Barr, Gilbert Melki, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jacques Bonaffre, 2005 LE DIVORCE, Jean-Marc Barr, 2003, (c) Fox Searchlight The Big Blue, Jean-Marc Barr, 1988, ©Columbia Pictures ZENTROPA, (aka EUROPA), Eddie Constantine, Jorgen Reenberg, Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Erik Mork, Udo Kier, 1991 The Big Blue, Jean-Marc Barr, 1988, ©Columbia Pictures ZENTROPA, (aka EUROPA), Jean-Marc Barr, 1991 ZENTROPA, (aka EUROPA), Jean-Marc Barr, 1991 The Big Blue, Jean-Marc Barr (L), Rosanna Arquette (R), 1988, ©Columbia Pictures HOPE AND GLORY, Sammi Davis, Jean-Marc Barr, 1987, (c)Columbia Pictures The Big Blue, Jean Reno (L), Jean-Marc Barr (R), 1988, ©Columbia Pictures The Big Blue, Jean-Marc Barr, 1988, ©Columbia Pictures The Big Blue, Jean-Marc Barr, 1988, ©Columbia Pictures AMERICAN TRANSLATION, Jean-Marc Barr, 2011. ©TLA Releasing
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
41% 55% The Pod Generation Pegazus Founder (Character) - 2023
90% No Score Yet Silent Land Arnaud (Character) - 2021
88% 0% My Best Part Le réalisateur (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cellar Milan (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dolphin Man Narrator - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet uk18 The Foreigner (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 33% Grain Erol Erin (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet After the War Jérôme (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wax: We Are the X Jean-Christophe Touchalier (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Magic Mountain Unknown (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vandal Paul (Character) - 2013
59% 55% Nymphomaniac: Volume II The Debtor (Character) - 2013
44% 37% Big Sur Jack Kerouac / Jack Duluoz (Character) $33.6K 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet And They Call It Summer Dino (Character) - 2012
0% 30% Sexual Chronicles of a French Family Director,
Producer,
Film Editing 		- 2012
No Score Yet 30% American Translation William (Character),
Director,
Producer,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing 		- 2011
90% 71% Khodorkovsky Narrator $38.6K 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet His Mother's Eyes Jean-Paul Tremazan (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 58% Les Yeux de Sa Mère Unknown (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet City of Shadows Maxime Vincent (Character) - 2010
56% 45% Making Plans for Lena Nigel (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 50% The Anarchist's Wife Pierre (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baby Blues Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 50% La maison Nucingen (Nucingen House) Unknown (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Parc Paul Marteau (Character) - 2007
74% 70% The Boss of It All Spencer (Character) $51.3K 2006
45% 46% One to Another Director $18.4K 2006
No Score Yet 42% Tara Road Unknown (Character) - 2005
50% 75% Manderlay Mr. Robinson (Character) $74.2K 2005
53% 60% Mariscos Beach Didier (Character) $140.4K 2005
No Score Yet 59% CQ2 (Seek You Too) Steven (Character) - 2004
70% 89% Dogville The Man with the Big Hat (Character) $1.5M 2003
36% 26% Le Divorce Maitre Bertram (Character) $9.1M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marie's Sons Paul (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 39% The Red Siren Hugo (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 44% La Sirene Rouge Unknown (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Being Light Unknown (Character),
Director 		- 2001
70% 91% Dancer in the Dark Norman (Character) $4.2M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Too Much Flesh Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 2000
No Score Yet 61% St. Ives Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 50% Lovers Director,
Writer 		- 1999
25% 50% Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday Ben (Character) $10.5K 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet What I Did for Love Marc (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 20% The Scarlet Tunic Matthaus Singer (Character) - 1998
84% 91% Breaking the Waves Terry (Character) $4.0M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lifeline Patrick LeMay (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Shave Emmanuel Barnes (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mo' Sam Follow (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horsemen Robert (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Le fils préféré Philippe (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 27% The Plague Jean Tarrou (Character) - 1992
82% 88% Europa Leopold Kessler (Character) $21.4K 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Le Brasier Victor (Character) - 1991
62% 93% The Big Blue Jacques Mayol (Character) $2.9M 1988
96% 82% Hope and Glory Cpl. Bruce Carrey (Character) $9.4M 1987

TV

Credit
67% 56% Anthracite Solal Heilman (Character) 2024
58% No Score Yet Little Birds The Secretary (Character) 2020
No Score Yet 88% Bad Banks Robert Khano (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blood on the Docks Capitaine Richard Faraday (Character) 2011-2014 2016