Jamie Hector, Haitian-American actor

As a film actor, Jamie Hector has appeared in Spike Lee's Clockers, He Got Game, Ghost Dog, Prison Song, and Everyday People. In 2003, Hector won acclaim as an actor in the film Five Deep Breaths, an Official Selection at major film festivals (Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and IFP). The short film garnered 16 awards, and attracted the attention of David Simon, who gave him the role of Marlo Stanfield in The Wire.

Film offers continued to court him. In 2008, Jamie Hector won a starring role in Blackout, working with Melvin Van Peebles, and reprised villainous Benjamin "Knox" Washington in Heroes. In the film, Max Payne, he portrayed the character Lincoln De Neuf, a Haitian underworld crime boss. He also played a ruthless rapper, young Eastie, in the film Just Another Day, in 2009. And in 2010 he filmed Night Catches Us and The Gift. Last year, in 2011, he appeared on CSI Miami in the role of Jean Guiton.

Hector believes in giving back and has started Moving Mountains, a not-for-profit mentoring program for youth, training them in martial arts and drama. He has also raised money for the survivors of Haiti's 2010 earthquake.

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