Frosty's Flava Magazine AUG-SEP- 2019 URBAN FILM FESTIVAL EDITION | Page 54

Jimmy Jean-Louis
Haitian-French Actor
Ambassador at Large to Haiti
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Photography by: Johnny Louis | JLN Photography & Wire Service
IG: @jlnphotography | Interviewed by: Frances “Frosty” Remy
Transcription: Maria T. Aponte | Painted Swagg | Powered by: Marco Molinet | FFH • UFF
Jimmy Jean-Louis (born August 8,
1968) is a Haitian-French Actor and
model best known for his role as “The
Haitian” on the NBC television series
Heroes.
B
ORN in Pétion-Ville, Jimmy worked as
a dancer and a model in France, Spain,
Italy, South Africa, and England. He
moved to Paris at a very young age to
pursue a modeling career. His early roles were
in French television commercials and Spanish
musical theatre.
Jimmy Jean-Louis grew up in the slums of
Petion-Ville, Haiti until age 12, to become
a Hollywood Celebrity and now is a Global
Cultural Ambassador to Haiti; eventually
settling in Los Angeles in the late 1990s.
now has a starring role on season two of the
television show Claws He now portrays Gregory
Ruval, Haitian Mafia Boss Gregory Ruval - who’s
now a recurring character, in Season 1 of Claws.
Jimmy is promoted a series regular for Season
2 with his beautiful Co-Star Neicy Nash who
plays (Desna Simms) pictured above, who
plays Jimmy’s love interest & husband. Harold
Perrineau (Dean Simms) plays Desna’s Autistic
Brother, Sheryl Lee Ralph (Matilde Ruval) who
plays Jimmy’s manipulative
mother, who Ralph admits is a very janky chick.
And several other
awesome characters
such as; Karrueche
Tran, Jenn Lyon,
Carrie Preston, Jack
Kesy, Judy
He has had small roles in movies such as; The
Bourne Identity and Arliss before breaking into
larger roles in American television and film. He
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