Name	Jean-Marc Barr
Height
Naionality	French-American
Date of Birth	27-September-1960
Place of Birth	Bitburg, Germany
Famous for	Acting

Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After some television roles (including a small role in Hotel du Lac (1986), the BBC's version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner), and film work, 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.

He played in the role opposite Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s. n 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) and The Boss of It All (2006). Also in 2005 he starred in the French film Crustaces et Coquillages.

He may also be recognized for his role as the attractive divorce lawyer, Maitre Bertram in the Merchant Ivory film le Divorce (2003). He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002. He appeared as the main character in the video for Blur's 1995 single, "Charmless Man". He is set to play author Jack Kerouac in the upcoming film adaption of the Beat Generation autobiographical novel Big Sur.