# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-jean-louis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:48:27.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-jean-louis"
name: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
slug: "jimmy-jean-louis"
description: "Jimmy Jean-Louis is a Haitian actor and producer. Born in Pétion-Ville, he moved to Paris at a young age with his family in search of a better life. His early roles were in French television commercials and Spanish musical theatre. Eventually settling in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, he had small roles in The Bourne Identity, Tears of the Sun and Arliss before breaking into larger roles in American television and film. He played the character of \"the Haitian\" on the NBC television series Heroes from 2007 to 2010. He played the title character in the 2012 French telefilm Toussaint Louverture. In 2024, he co-produced and acted in the Indian film The Goat Life alongside Prithviraj."
tagline: "Haitian actor and model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Jean-Louis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1968-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.25
  momentum:             0.5693348365276213
  historical:           14.2025
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/haitianhero"
    handle:    "haitianhero"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1097515/"
    handle:    "nm1097515"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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    title: "جيمي جان-لويس"
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    title: "جيمى جان لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Jean-Louis"
    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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    title: "جیمی ژان لوئیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Jean-Louis"
    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%80%EB%AF%B8_%EC%9E%A5%EB%A3%A8%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "지미 장루이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105762"
    title: "Jimmy Jean-Louis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump