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Son of an American father, hero of the US Air Force , and of a French mother, Jean-Marc Barr spent part of his childhood in Germany, then in the United States, before joining France in 1968. In 1974, the family settles in San Diego, Jean-Marc Barr receives a strict education there with a view to his incorporation into the US Air Force . Refusing to take the same path as his father, he left for London in 1982 to study theater. There, he met his future wife, a pianist of Yugoslav origin. Back in France, he made his screen debut in The Frog prince (1984) and played under the direction of John Boorman in La Guerre à sept ans (1987).

Then came the phenomenal success of the Big Blue (1988) and his role as a diver that will stick to his skin for a long time. Luc Besson's film earned him a nomination for best actor at the Césars. Regularly working on productions from all countries, he converted to "Dogma" in 1991, after meeting Lars von Trier, who offered him the leading role in Europa. It is the beginning of a friendship and an active collaboration which will continue with Breaking the waves (1996), Dancer in the dark (2000) and Dogville (2003). In 1999, the actor decides to go behind the camera, following the precepts of "Dogma". Jean-Marc Barr thus realizes with Pascal Arnold Lovers, the first part of a trilogy devoted to freedom and love, shot on a DV camera and inflated in 35 mm. This "saga"

Despite some hiccups (Crazy about her with Ophélie Winter), his acting choices remain very eclectic, leading him to switch from the thriller(The Red Siren, 2002), to the romantic comedy (Le Divorce, in 2003) after a detour through the dramatic comedy (Saltimbank, id.). Through his company Toloda, he produced Carole Laure's first two feature films: Les Fils de Marie (2002) and Tout près du sol (2004), in which he also acts. Refusing labels, he appears in light comedies like Crustaceans and Coquillages (2004) and Baby Blues (2007), which does not prevent him from finding in the meantime his favorite director Lars von Trier for the second part of his consecrated trilogy. to criticism from the United States, Manderlay, and for Le Direktør. He then re-teamed with Pascal Arnold to co-direct Everyone His Night, a film about adolescence and sexuality. Then he joined Sergi Lopez and Nathalie Richard in Parc and continued with the dreamlike universe of Raoul Ruiz in La Maison Nucingen, adapted from a novel by Balzac. He toured in 2009 under the direction of Christophe Honoré in Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser alongside Marina Foïs whom he found in Les Yeux de sa mère (2011), where they played the adoptive parents of a young man. man confronted with his origins.