Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis led a simple Life in the slums of Haiti until the age of 12, when he moved to Paris. Jimmy worked for 3 years in a musical theater in Spain "La Belle Époque" before embarking on a successful modeling career in France, Spain, Italy, South Africa and England. He moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue acting. Some of his credits include: "Tears of the Sun" (Dir: Antoine Fuqua, Columbia pictures 2003) with Bruce Willis, "Hollywood Homicide" (dir: Ron Shelton, Columbia Pictures, 2003) with Harrison Fordand Josh Hartnet, "Monster-in-Law" (Dir: Robert Luketic, New Line, 2005 ) with Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez, "Phat Girlz" (Dir: Nnegest Likke, Fox Searchlight, 2006) with Oscar winner Mo'Nique, "Heroes" (NBC, 2006-2010) where he portrayed the charismatic Rene aka The Haitian, "Arrow" (CW Network, 2013), "Heroes Reborn" (NBC, 2015) and "Joy" (Dir: David O Russell, Fox 2000 Pictures, 2015) with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro. He' was a regular on the show "Claws" TNT, 2018. His most important role to date is playing the title character in "Toussaint Louverture" which won Best Actor at the Pan African Film Festival and a nomination for Best Actor at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2012. Jimmy Jean-Louis won Best Actor in a leading role "Desrances" at the Africa Movie Academy Award in 2020. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Creole, Jimmy has worked in many parts of the world including France, England, Indonesia, Cuba, Nigeria, Brasil and Mexico....
Jimmy Jean-Louis

Movies

The Goat Life
FHD
An Indian man seeking work follows a job lead to Saudi Arabia, only to find himself forced to labor without pay as a goat herder in the remote desert.
Jagged Mind
When Billie finds herself reliving different versions of the same first date, she must break out of a series of loops created by her manipulative ex-girlfriend.
Assassin Club
Takes place in the world of international spies and elite assassins. In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
Detective Knight: Independence
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
Detective Knight: Redemption
In custody in New York, Detective James Knight finds himself in the middle of a jailbreak led by The Christmas Bomber, a brutal fanatic whose Santa Claus disciples are terrorizing the city. With the promised return of his badge in exchange for taking out the terrorists, the steely-eyed Knight doles out mercy for the just...and merciless justice for all the rest.
Detective Knight: Rogue
As Los Angeles prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound detective James Knight’s partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world apart…unless redemption can claim Knight first.
Joy
6.3
  • Dec 30, 2015
  • OST
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Heroes Reborn
  • Sep 23, 2015
  • English
The supernatural phenomenon begins again with a fresh crop of inspiring heroes who take on the ultimate struggle between those with extraordinary abilities and those with nefarious motives to hunt and harness their powers. Epic adventures await these newly empowered allies as they cross paths with some of the original characters, unlocking the mysterious fate of the universe and their place within it.