Jimmy Jean-Louis – Bio, Wife, Net Worth, Best Films, 5 Interesting Facts

The award-winning actor, Jimmy Jean-Louis began his career as an international model. He did a few modeling gigs before he began to appear in television programs.

The Haitian actor and producer have received several awards and nominations for his acting career. Climbing the ladder of success has not been easy for the actor but he had to stay true and focused.  His hard work and dedication have surely paid off for him.

Who is Jimmy Jean-Louis?

Jimmy Jean-Louis was born on August 8, 1968, in Pétion-Ville, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His family moved to Paris when he was just twelve years old.

He attended Académie Internationale de la Danse after he dropped the business courses he was initially taking due to his interest in performing arts. His family returned to Haiti while he and his brother stayed back in Paris.

Jimmy Jean-Louis speaks five languages fluently. He speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole. He is a member of an amateur soccer club Hollywood United FC. The team consists of mainly celebrities and former professionals.

Wife

The Haitian actor is married to Evelyn Jean-Louis. His wife is a native of the Seychelles Islands. She is a writer and producer as well. Evelyn graduated Summa cum laude from UCLA.

She is the co-founder of a Los Angeles production company Jet Media Production. Her other projects are documentary films like Haiti 16:53(2010) Jimmy Goes to Nollywood (2015), feature films: Everything But AMan (2018), and short film Fahim (2012). She has also produced and documented an oral history project about AIDS in the Black Community.

The couple has three lovely children. Their first son is Thevi followed by a daughter called Jasmine and the baby of the house Kyra. Kyra was born on August 11 2011 at the Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Kyra weighed 10.8 pounds at birth.

Net worth

Jimmy Jean-Louis currently has an estimated net worth of $3 million as of August 2021. His income is mainly from his career as an actor and also an occasional actor. He spends most of his income on charity organizations especially the less privileged in Haiti.

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Best Films

When Jimmy Jean-Louis started acting fully, he got a role in Jean-Claude Van Damme’s movie Derailed (2002). His role in the movie was like a pacesetter to his career. He began to get roles with other Hollywood A-list actors. Here is a list of some of his best films and television series:

• Age of Kali (2005)
• The Game of Their Lives (2005)
• Tears of the Sun (2003)
• Hollywood Homicide (2003)
• Monster-in-Law (2003)
• the cursed ones (2015)
• Toussaint Louverture (2012)
• Heroes (2006-2009)
• The way (2017)
• Heroes Reborn (2015)

Here are 5 Interesting Facts about Jimmy Jean-Louis

1. Jimmy Jean-Louis was homeless as a model

Jean-Louis pursued his professional modeling career after he moved to Paris. He was quite successful as a model across Europe but before then, he struggling to live in Paris. He was even homeless sometimes.

He was discovered few years after he started by producers during one of his dancing stints in a French club. He later appeared in a Coca-Cola advertisement. He also worked in London for reputable names like Gianfranco Ferre and Valentino.

2. His parents were missing after the 2010 Haiti earthquake

The Haitian native went searching for his elderly parents in 2010 after a powerful earthquake that struck Haiti. It was reported that the actor lost his relatives after a house he had grown up in collapsed.

After the earthquake, he was not able to reach his parents and he became worried. He later got the news that his parents were okay but he didn’t hear from them directly.

3. Jimmy Jean-Louis is the founder of Hollywood Unites for Haiti( HUFH)

In a way of giving back to his community, Jean-Louis founded a non-profit charitable aid organization called Hollywood Unites for Haiti alongside his wife. His wife also works with HUFH and she is the secretary of the organization.

The organization is aimed at providing sports and cultural education to underprivileged youths in his country. The group mobilized for disaster relief after the magnitude-7 earthquake struck.

He has also been involved in some campaigns for Haitian aid as well. He is the ambassador of the pan American development foundation for Haitian children. In 2014 he was named Ambassador-at-Large to Haiti by his Excellency president Michel Martelly.

4. His father was shot during a robbery in Haiti

On April 6, 2014, Lephène Jean-Louis, was rushed to the hospital after an injury from a gunshot wound. He was shopping at a local store in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Tabarre near his home when he got shot by robbers. he was wounded with a single bullet on the abdomen.

He died four days after he was shot at the age of 78 leaving his aged wife and children to mourn him.

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5. He has several awards and credits to his name

The Haitian actor who grew up in the slums of Pétion -Ville rose beyond expectation in his career. He featured in quite a number of blockbuster movies and series and has been recognized for his works.

These are some of his awards and nominations so far in his acting career:

• 2012 Best Actor Nomination ( Toussaint Louverture Film- African Movie Academy Awards
• 2013 Excellence In The Arts Prize-Caribbean American Heritage Award
• 2017 Best Supporting Actor- Hollywood African Prestigious Awards
• 2019 Career Achievement Award- Montreal International Black Film Festival
• 2019 Impact in Entertainment Award- Face2Face Africa
• 2020 Best Actor Win at The Africa Movie Academy Awards

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