Jimmy Jean-Louis

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Jimmy Jean-Louis
Born	August 8th, 1968 Petionville, Haiti
Official website

Jimmy Jean-Louis is a Haitian actor and model best known for his role as The Haitian on the NBC television series Heroes. Born in Petionville, Haiti, he moved to Paris at a young age to pursue a modeling career. His early roles were in French musical theatre and television commercials. Eventually settling in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, he had small parts in The Bourne Identity and Arliss before breaking into larger parts in American television and film.

Jean-Louis is also a huge Soccer fan. He often plays for Hollywood United F.C., a team comprised mostly of celebrities and former professionals.

[edit] Filmography

• Emmanuelle's Secret (1992)
• Emmanuelle in Venice (1993)
• Arliss (2001)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Tears of the Sun (2003)
• Hollywood Homicide (2003)
• Cousines (Haitian Film) (2005)
• Monster-in-Law (2005)
• The Shield (2005)
• The Game of Their Lives (2005)
• Heroes (2006)
• Phat Girlz (2006)
• Le President a-t-il Le Sida (Haitian Film) (2006)

[edit] External links

• Official home page
• Jimmy Jean-Louis at the Internet Movie Database
• Jimmy Jean-Louis at the Haiti Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Jimmy Jean-Louis from The Company Podcast