From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jimmy Jean-Louis (born August 8, 1968) 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.

Filmography

• 2026Melodrama — Aimé
• 2026Viper — Marcus 'Shadow' Blackwood
• 2025Au revoir — Frédéric, Executive Producer
• 2025Jimmy Goes to Tropico — Narrator, Screenplay
• 2025July 7: Who Killed the President of Haiti? — Renel Monise, Executive Producer
• 2025The Fire and the Moth — Contractor
• 2024Dead Money — Faizel
• 2024Evil, I — Pastor
• 2024The Goat Life — Ibrahim Khadiri, Producer
• 2023Assassin Club — Inspector Leon
• 2023Detective Knight: Independence — Det.Godwin Sango
• 2023Jagged Mind — Papa Juste
• 2022Detective Knight: Rogue — Det.Godwin Sango
• Pam & Tommy — Officer Jarvis
• 2022Parsley — Executive Producer
• 2022The Gray Man — Alex Dumas
• 2020Citation — Prof. Lucien N'Dyare
• 2020Jungle Jihad — The negotiator, Co-Producer
• 2019Cargo
• 2019Code_Switch — Rodney Oliver, Associate Producer
• Deadly Tropics — Clément Galpin
• 2019Desrances — Francis Desrances, Executive Producer
• 2019Rattlesnakes — Robert McQueen
• 2018The Outer Wild — Ramson
• 2017Catastrópico — Damien
• Just One Look — Eric Toussaint
• S.W.A.T. — Sal Desir
• SMILF — Henri
• 2017The Empty Box — Toussaint
• 2016Everything But a Man — Max, Producer
• 2016The CEO — Jean-Marc
• Heroes Reborn — The Haitian
• 2015Jimmy Goes to Nollywood — Himself, Director, Writer
• 2015Joy — Toussaint
• 2015The Cursed Ones — Paladin
• 2015Yefon — President Jean Pierre
• Extant — Pierre Lyon
• 2014Five Thirteen — JJL
• 2013And Then There Was You — Associate Producer
• 2013Doctor Bello — Doctor Bello
• 2013Miserere — Puyferrat
• 2013One Night in Vegas — Nick
• Arrow — The Captain
• Metal Hurlant Chronicles — Norman
• 2012Toussaint Louverture — Toussaint Louverture
• Toussaint Louverture — Toussaint Louverture
• 2011A Butterfly Kiss
• 2011Sinking Sands — Jimah Sanson
• 2010Paris Express — Steve Loki
• 2010Relentless — Candidate
• 2010The Penthouse — Buzz McManus
• 2009Diary of a Tired Black Man — James
• 2009I Sing of a Well
• 2009Moloch Tropical — Francis
• 2009Orpailleur — Myrtho
• 2008Adventures of Power — Aubelin
• 2008Loaded — Antonio
• 2006Cousines — Ralph
• Heroes — The Haitian
• 2006Le president a-t-il le sida — Dao, Producer
• 2006Phat Girlz — Dr. Tunde Jonathan
• 2005Age of Kali — Ferdinand
• 2005Monster-in-Law — Prince Amir
• 2005The Game of Their Lives — Joe Gaetjens
• 2003Tears of the Sun — Gideon
• 2002Derailed — Henry
• Fastlane — Haitian #1
• The Shield — Ididsa Okoye
• The District — Jean-Paul Bertrand
• 1999Blade Sisters
• Arli$$ — Caesar
• 1993Emmanuelle Forever — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle in Venice — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle's Love — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle's Magic — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle's Perfume — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle's Revenge — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• 1993Emmanuelle's Secret — as Jean-Louis Jimmy
• Angel Blade — The Pharaoah
• Angie — Det. Randall, Executive Producer
• Fronteras
• Killing of a Nation — Jovenel Moise
• Life Outside of Pearl — Marco
• Un coq sur un escalier de secours

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2025Bruce Willis : les secrets d'une icône — Self
• La route de la soif — Self