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Actor · Association football player · Model · Dancer · Film actor
📍 Birthplace Pétionville, Ouest
🎂 Birthday August 8
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Jimmy Jean-Louis is a Haitian actor and producer. Born in Pétion-Ville, he moved to Paris at a young age with his family in search of a better life. His early roles were in French television commercials and Spanish musical theatre. Eventually settling in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, he had small roles in The Bourne Identity, Tears of the Sun and Arliss before breaking into larger roles in American television and film. He played the character of "the Haitian" on the NBC television series Heroes from 2007 to 2010. He played the title character in the 2012 French telefilm Toussaint Louverture. In 2024, he co-produced and acted in the Indian film The Goat Life alongside Prithviraj.
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Films
- 2013The Mark of the Angels – MiserereActor
- 2013Doctor BelloActor
- 2013One Night in VegasActor
- 2011A Butterfly KissActor
- 2010Paris ExpressActor
- 2010Sinking SandsActor
- 2010The PenthouseActor
- 2009Moloch TropicalActor
- 2009OrpailleurActor
- 2009I Sing of a WellActor
- 2008Adventures of PowerActor
- 2008Diary of a Tired Black ManActor
- 2008LoadedActor
- 2006Phat GirlzActor
- 2005The Game of Their LivesActor
- 2005Monster-in-LawActor
- 2003Tears of the SunActor
- 2003Hollywood HomicideActor
- 2002The Bourne IdentityActor
- 2002DerailedActor
Career
- 2002The Bourne IdentityWork
Distinctions
- Africa Movie Academy Awards
Places
- Birthplace
- Pétionville, Ouest
- Languages
- French
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q931325 (CC0)
- Photo: watchwithkristin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons