Fayolle Jean (born July 17, 1953) is a Haitian Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec, best known for his starring role as Frank Honoré in the television series Lakay Nou.
[1] Originally from Les Cayes, Haiti, he had a career as an actor and radio broadcaster in Haiti before emigrating to Canada in 1979, where he was a founder of the Théâtre Libre d'Haïti au Québec theatre company.
[2] He has been most prominently a stage actor, although he has also had film and television roles beginning with a small bit part in How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) in 1989.
His most noted roles have included Victor in A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali),[3] Joseph Louboutin in the third season of Durham County, writer Joseph in Of Ink and Blood (D'encre et de sang), [4] and an alternate reality version of Denzel Washington in There Are No False Undertakings (Il n'y a pas de faux métier).
[6] The two have acted together in the films Scratch[7] and Première vague.