Picardy Jean-Pierre
Picardy Jean-Pierre was born February 27 1984 in Montreal, Canada from Haitian immigrant parents. He has spent half of his student life between Montreal, Boston and New-York. Being a talented award winning professional soccer player led him to travel across countries.
He was first initiated to the movie industry in 2013 on the set of Brick Mansion, next to the late Paul Walker (Fast and Furious), the RZA (Wu-Tang Clan) and David Belle (Banlieu 13) as a background actor. Loving the experience, he appeared in numerous movies and TV-series, both in French and English. He has filmed in Canada, United-States and even on International projects. Since then, he never looked back, now knowing what he wanted to do: acting.
Two years later, he was interned as a recurrent specialized extra on the ABC hit series Quantico, as a New Agent in Training (NAT), studying to become FBI agent, where he spent a full 9 months shooting next to the actress Priyanka Chopra. One important highlight of his young emerging career.
That same year, he gets casted in his 1st national commercial for the NBA (National Basketball Association) as a Milwaukee Bucks fan, which has more than 32 000 views on YouTube. Then in the summer of 2016 he gets his 1st role in an Asian feature "The Killing House" as Reino, a killer who's just trying to survive among his 2 cast-mates. Then, he was casted as assistant coach and specialized soccer consultant on the CBC series "21 Thunder." The Following winter, he shoots his 2nd commercial for Bull-E Soccer, as a soccer player who gets to defy the goalkeeper one on one inside of a plastic bubble.
Actra member and now soon to be UDA, Picardy is a dedicated and passionate actor that is always ready for the challenge. Throughout his 6 years in the movie business, Picardy has worked next to some of Hollywood's A-list actors. From Bruce Willis to Jennifer Lawrence and working with directors like Darren Aronosfky, Stephan Kay, Xavier Dolan and Jennifer Lynch just to name a few.