Jean-Marc Barr

About Jean-Marc Barr

Who is it?: Actor, Producer, Director
Birth Day: September 27, 1960
Birth Place:  Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Germany
Occupation: Film, stage, television actor, director, screenwriter, film producer

Jean-Marc Barr

Jean-Marc Barr was born on September 27, 1960 in  Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Germany, is Actor, Producer, Director. Jean-Marc Barr was born on September 27, 1960 in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Le grand bleu (1988), Lovers (1999) and Big Sur (2013).
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Popular As Jean-Marc Barr
Occupation Actor
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born September 27, 1960 ( Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Germany)
Birthday September 27
Town/City  Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Germany
Nationality Germany

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Jean-Marc Barr’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Jean-Marc Barr was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.

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Biography/Timeline

1968

Barr was born to a French mother and an American father working in the US 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.

1986

Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After finding work in television (including a small role in Hotel du Lac (1986), the BBC's version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner), and film, (in particular Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman), he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him in the role of French diver Jacques Mayol, alongside Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s.

1991

In 1991, he 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 Nympho()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.

1997

In 1997 he appeared in The Scarlet Tunic, produced by Zigi Kamasa.

1999

His collaboration with von Trier put him on track to start directing his own work. He debuted in 1999 as a Director, Screenwriter and Producer with the intimate love story Lovers. The film became the first part of a trilogy; the films that followed were the drama Too Much Flesh (2000) and the comedy Being Light (2001), which he co-directed with Pascal Arnold. Barr and Pascal also directed the 2006 film Chacun sa nuit (eng: One to another) and discovered at that time Lizzie Brocher, Arthur Dupont and Karl E. Landler. Then an other one in 2012, Sexual Chronicles of a French Family.

2002

He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002 and played divorce Lawyer Maitre 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".

2013

He played author Jack Kerouac in the 2013 film adaptation of the Beat Generation autobiographical novel Big Sur.

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