Jean-Marc Barr
Actor · 65 years old
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| Age | 65 years old |
|---|---|
| Birth date | September 27, 1960 |
| Birthplace | Bitburg |
| Profession | Actor, Stage actor, Television actor, Film director |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
Jean-Marc Barr — Biography
Jean-Marc Barr (born 27 September 1960 in Bitburg, West Germany) is a French-American actor and director. He achieved international recognition in 1988 playing free-diving champion Jacques Mayol in Luc Besson's The Big Blue.
Barr is best known for his long-running collaboration with Danish director Lars von Trier, appearing in Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005) and both volumes of Nymphomaniac (2013); he has also directed several of his own projects. With more than fifty film and television credits across a career spanning four decades, he has appeared in Turkish productions such as Buğday (2017) and İtiraf (2013), and continues to work on screen with recent projects including The Pod Generation (2023) and the series King & Conqueror (2025).
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Filmography / Projects
- 2003 Le Divorce
- 2000 Dancer in the Dark (Karanlıkta Dans)
- 1994 Iron Horsemen
- 2005 Manderlay
- 2023 The Pod Generation
- 2021 Silent Land
- 2025 King & Conqueror
- 2005 Tara Road
- 1985 King David
- 2005 Crustacés et Coquillages
- 1987 Hope and Glory (Umut ve Zafer)
- 1996 L'Échappée belle
- 2008 The Anarchist's Wife
- 1997 Transformer (Tranceformer) (translated)
- 2013 Big Sur
- 2014 Nymphomaniac Director's Cut
- 2003 Dogville Confessions
- 2013 Nymphomaniac: Volume I
- 2013 Nymphomaniac: Volume II
- 2000 Too Much Flesh
- 2011 American Translation
- 2008 Baby Blues
- 2016 WAX: We Are the X
- 2004 CQ2 (Seek You Too)
- 1998 Folle d'elle
- 1998 Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
- 2008 Nucingen House
- 2002 The Red Siren
- 1991 Le Brasier
- 1994 The Favorite Son (The Favourite Son) (translated)
- 2003 The Car Keys
- 1994 Les faussaires
- 2011 Les yeux de sa mère
- 2003 Dogville
- 1996 Marching in Darkness
- 2009 Making Plans for Lena
- 2008 Parc
- 1992 The Plague
- 2003 Saltimbank
- 2007 Here's Looking at You, Boy
- 2013 Vandal
- 2012 They Call It Summer
- 2001 Being Light
- 2002 Les fils de Marie
- 2018 The Miracle
- 1988 The Big Blue (Derinlik Sarhoiluğu)
- 1996 Breaking the Waves (Dalgaları Aşmak)
- 2006 The Boss of It All
- 1991 Europe (Europa) (translated)
- 2020 My Best Part
- 2010 City of Shadows
- 2018 The Cellar
- 2017 Grain (Buğday)
- 2013 Nymphomaniac (İtiraf)
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