22 Facts About Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis was born on August 8,1968 and is a Haitian actor and producer.

Jimmy Jean-Louis played the character of "the Haitian" on the NBC television series Heroes from 2007 to 2010.

Jimmy Jean-Louis played the title character in the 2012 French telefilm Toussaint Louverture.

Jimmy Jean-Louis lived there until the age of twelve, when he moved to Paris with his family to pursue a modeling career.

Jimmy Jean-Louis enrolled in business courses, but quickly realized that his heart lay in performance, and studied at the Academie Internationale de la Danse.

Jimmy Jean-Louis's parents returned to Haiti, but Jean-Louis and his brother remained in Paris.

Jimmy Jean-Louis began appearing in low-budget independent films in Los Angeles.

Jimmy Jean-Louis worked in musical theatre in Barcelona, Spain, spending three years with musical theater "La Belle Epoque", before moving to Italy where he worked as a model.

Jimmy Jean-Louis had secondary roles in Tears of the Sun, Hollywood Homicide, Monster-in-Law and The Game of Their Lives.

Jimmy Jean-Louis was cast as the romantic lead in the 2006 film Phat Girlz starring opposite Mo'Nique as her love interest.

Jimmy Jean-Louis was cast in the recurring role of The Haitian on the NBC television series Heroes, playing a character who is an associate of Noah Bennet.

In 2013, it was announced that Jimmy Jean-Louis had been cast in a recurring role in Arrow.

Jimmy Jean-Louis portrayed "The Captain", an associate of Professor Ivo.

Jimmy Jean-Louis had a recurring role on season one of Claws but was upgraded to a starring role in season 2.

Jimmy Jean-Louis enjoys watching and playing soccer and is a member of an amateur soccer club Hollywood United FC, a team consisting mostly of celebrities and former professionals.

Jimmy Jean-Louis is fluent in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Haitian Creole.

Jimmy Jean-Louis received the key to Miami-Dade County on January 10,2010 from Mayor Carlos Alvarez.

Jimmy Jean-Louis received the key to the city of North Miami on May 3,2018 from Mayor Joseph Smith.

Jimmy Jean-Louis learned that a house he had grown up in collapsed, killing several of his relatives.

Jimmy Jean-Louis is the founder of Hollywood Unites for Haiti, a non-profit charitable aid organization whose original mission was to provide sports and cultural education to underprivileged youth on the island.

Jimmy Jean-Louis has taken part in a series of campaigns for Haitian aid, such as singing in the "We Are The World" remake of the original for Haiti in February 2010 which aired during the start of the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Jimmy Jean-Louis was named Ambassador-at-large to Haiti by President Michel Martelly in 2014.