Jean-Michel grew up in Paris and has lived and worked all over Europe,
spending much time in Spain, Germany and Holland.

He received his masters degree at Sorbonne University and completed
studies at Paris’s renowned national conservatory for Dramatic Arts.
While at the Conservatory, he won a scholarship to study at New York’s
Columbia University, under the tutelage of director Andrei Serban.

Jean-Michel then settled in Los Angeles, where he now enjoys a
cross-continental career.

His on-camera work includes numerous recurring roles on television.
He co-starred in Bottle Shock opposite Alan Rickman and in What
Just Happened opposite Robert DeNiro, among many other credits.

He is a founding member of the award winning theater company
The Next Arena, which has produced a string of critically acclaimed plays.

Jean-Michel also has a thriving voice over career, and is recognized as
one of the top European voice over talents in Los Angeles.

Jean-Michel lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and a dog named Rémy.

Most recently, Jean-Michel completed a sold out multi-city tour of the one man show
Vincent by Leonard Nimoy, illuminating the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

In 2015, we were proud to help commemorate the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh’s death with the
French language Premiere in Paris, France at the renowned Ciné XIII theatre. The show was embraced
by reviewers and audiences alike and was nominated for Best Actor and Best Author at the Petits Molières,
the French Tony awards for small theatres.

Vincent had two amazing runs at the Avignon theater festival in 2017 and 2018, being bought by many theaters across France.

The play has been touring internationally in English and French ever since.

Jean-Michel had the pleasure of guest starring alongside Sharon Stone in Agent X.

Jean-Michel played the male lead role in the thriller The Housemaid, shot in Vietnam. The film premiered
in September 2016 and stayed #1 at the Vietnamese box office for a few weeks.

Destination F, a short film he starred in, won the Jury Award and the Audience Award for Best Comedy short
at the Sonoma International Film Festival.

Jean-Michel continues to enjoy a a thriving voice over career. His voice could recently be heard in theatres in The Cloverfield Paradox, Equalizer 2, on the radio for a Dr. Pepper national campaign, on TV on many series for Netflix, Amazon and Hulu including Jack Ryan, Looming Tower, Dark Tourist, Elite, the super fun animated series Splash and Bubbles (2 seasons) and in the videogame Wolfenstein: Youngblood. He is also one of the main voices on the popular app Calm.com (French version).

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