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Cameron Arnett was born on 14 October 1960 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor and producer, known for Saved by Grace (2022), These Stones (2024) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).

Lovensky Jean-Baptiste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor and producer, known for The Pitt (2025), Vacation Friends 2 (2023) and 24 (2001).

Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a director and writer, known for Enfant Unique, Le Voyage and The Black General.

Yvans Jourdain was born on 26 May 1963 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor and director, known for Later Daters (2021), Parks and Recreation (2009) and Alias (2001).

Born in Haiti and raised in small-town USA, Numa Perrier is an actress, writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. She produces and develops TV and film projects under her production banner, House of Numa. She trained in acting under Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and Polina Klimovitskaya in New York City.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Denise Milfort narrowly escaped great political upheaval with her family as a small child. Her father, now deceased, was the supervising engineer at a German owned electronic company in Haiti. Her mother, a former entrepreneur owned several car dealerships throughout the country. The family was forced to abandon all of their assets and start with zero in the United States.

Her interest in acting began early, as she landed leading roles in school productions. She's credited on the highly praised Nine Inch Nails album The Fragile for song La Mer, recorded during a six year romantic relationship with the Grammy and Academy award winner Trent Reznor. She's quoted defending her decision to sing the song in Haitian Creole rather than French as support for the decision to make Haitian Creole an official language in Haiti, which prior had been French. It was a conscious decision on her part to distance herself from the elitist politics of her family's past.

While living in New Orleans, she appeared on the cover of Gambit Weekly and supported herself as a model. After finishing high school in Stamford, Connecticut, she attended Eastern Connecticut State University and majored in biology, she later moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She has four sisters and a brother. In Repentance, she plays alongside academy award winning actor Forest Whitaker. Her latest works include Lalo's House with Garcelle Beauvais set in Haiti due our early 2018. She passionately and diligently supports Dental Care for Children, volunteering her time as their international coordinator a nonprofit organization which provides free dental care for children in Haiti and in Mexico.

Gessica Geneus was born on 23 December 1985 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is an actress and director, known for Freda (2021), Cousines (2006) and Kidnapping Inc. (2024).

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sarodj Bertin (Daughter of Jean Bertin and Mireille Durocher Bertin) is fluent in four languages, an Actress, Model, human rights activist, Philanthropist, Attorney, Entrepreneur, and Goodwill Ambassador, who was crowned the first Miss Universe, Haiti in 2010 (after a 22 year absence), as well as "Reina Hispanoamericana" in 2012. Bertin has worked tirelessly to lend her celebrity, time and support to philanthropic organizations such as the International Alliance for Haiti's Recovery (AIRH), "Manitas en las Calles," "Catwalk for Charity," among others. As a result of her altruistic and humanitarian undertakings, she was acknowledged and awarded a Special Prize at the African Oscars in 2013 (NAFCA) and a Humanitarian Award at the Motion Picture Association of Haiti (MPAH) Awards in 2013. Bertin was also named "Woman of the Year, 2010" by the Latin Awards in New York City. In 2011 she founded " Sarodj For a Purpose" her foundation, which main objective is to work with orphans and there education in Haiti. In 2010 she starred in her first film, " The Voodoo List", of the Italian director Angelo Rizzo, with Juan Fernandez and Manny Perez. Sarodj also had a starring role in movies such as "Everybody Cheats ", directed by Richard Widmack, and in which she shared the big screen with the actor Benz Antoine; and "One Night in Vegas ", of the director Koby Maxwell, with Jimmy Jean Louis, Other movies she have worked in are: Sharktopus II, a SyFy Channel movie, and "The Heart Breaker's Revenge" directed by Dalyboy Belgason.

Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a composer, known for Old Gringo (1989), Splash (1984) and The Mists of Avalon (2001).

Karina Bonnefil is a proud Haitian. Born and raised in Haiti, Karina Bonnefil moved to America in 1987. Unlike most Haitians who migrated to Miami, Boston or Canada, the Bonnefil family decided to start a new life in Overland Park, Kansas. Always a Television fanatic and knew that one way or another she would end up on TV. Her first love, first show that Inspired her artistic dreams was the hit comedy show "Languichatte Debordus," Haiti's most famous comic actor and playwright, Theodore Beaubrun. Beaubrun, who was known by his stage name Languichatte Debordus was a stand-up comic whose career spans 50 plus years. The show was about the life and experiences of a middle class man in Haiti trying to keep up with the Joneses aka The Jean(s). Her move to America in 1987 opened the door to a possibility of having a successful American TV/film life.

As she said, her ESL(English as a second language)Teachers at Leawood middle school, The Golden girls, The Oprah Winfrey show, Murder,She Wrote, Amen,& A different world would be proud of her accomplishments and strives. Those teachers and shows helped her master the American English language.

As she proudly stated,"God places people in your life, your journey to help you on your path to success." During college she decided to take a leap and move to Florida. From Lisa Maile in Orlando, to Linda Fionte,Raymond Forchion & Jay W. Jensen in Miami,Florida these wonderful coaches and mentors guided her steps in discovering & living truthfully in every character. Her Haitian parents(her papa) just didn't understand the artistic side of life as a profession so she proudly received a B.A in Communication Broadcasting,minor in marketing-public relations from St.Thomas University in Miami, Florida. This Haiti lady,proud character Actress.

Karina Bonnefil is the daughter of Reynold Bonnefil & Genevieve Bonnefil.

Sandra Prosper is a Haitian-American actress from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She is best known for her roles as Sheila Morris in the television series Charmed, and for her co-starring role, opposite Morris Chestnut, in Like Mike.

Sandra emigrated to America, from Haiti, when she was four years old. She spent her formative years in Englewood, New Jersey, where her father practiced medicine and her mother was a nurse. Sandra is the middle of five siblings and was a high-school track star, Girl Scout, and a weekend volunteer in Soup Kitchens throughout New York City.

After high-school, Sandra attended NYU and graduated with honors, receiving a B.A. in Political Science. While at NYU, Sandra caught the attention of several photographers and modeling agents. She became the face of several successful advertising and marketing campaigns, including Revlon and Clinique, Avon, and Newport. Eventually, Sandra's chic sense of style and her love of fashion led her to pursue a career as a buyer for New York's premiere luxury department store, Bergdorf Goodman. As a buyer, Sandra circled the globe, while frequenting international fashion circles in Paris, Milan and Hong Kong. However, Sandra soon grew tired of the constant travel and living out of a suitcase. On a flight back to New York from Europe, Sandra decided that she would leave the fashion industry and pursue her original dream of becoming a lawyer.

While studying for the law school admissions exam, and between jobs, a Celebrity actress friend suggested that Sandra should try auditioning for television commercials as means of making extra money. Ever one to try a new challenge, Sandra met with an agent her friend arranged for her to meet, and she was immediately offered representation and signed to a contract. Sandra booked twelve national commercials in her first six months., and her success in commercials piqued her interest in taking acting seriously to pay her tuition for law school.

Sandra enrolled in the famed William Esper two-year acting program, where she studied the Meisner Technique. It was during this time that Sandra landed roles in three independent films. Her performances did not go unnoticed. A producer saw her and offered Sandra the lead female role, playing attorney Shawn Holley Chapman, in the original movie about the O.J. Simpson trial and his "Dream Team," called "An American Tragedy". Sandra quickly realized that she loved acting more than the law, and that landing her role was a sign that she was not meant to become a lawyer. Instead, Sandra's destiny was to play lawyers in films and on television. Sandra eventually packed up her Manhattan apartment and relocated to Los Angeles, where she has played numerous memorable roles on hit dramas like Soul Food, ER and First Monday.

In addition to acting, Sandra also operates an organic food business called Sandra's Soups and Sweets. Sandra is also an accomplished screenwriter, who has written four scripts. She is penning a semi-autobiographical script based on her own life.

Hencha Voigt was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. She is known for Basketball Girlfriend (2014), Send Help (2022) and WAGS Miami (2016).

Marie was born and and raised in Port-au Prince, Haiti and moved to the United States in New Jersey 1996. She lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she was able to launch a small business Scrappyscloset inspired by her puppy Scrappy. She went to school at the University of Houston for Petroleum Land Management and began to work in the oil and gas industry as a Land Technician. In between school and work she was also training to compete in the NPC. She hosts a TV Show called Phitness on FOX Television and gives great advice on how to maintain fit. Marie launched MarieBFit.com in 2015 teaching the beauty of health and fitness and posts many fitness tips on her YouTube channel, MarieBFit.

Marie lists her hometowns as Croix Des Bouquets, Haiti and Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Marie moved to Manhattan, New York and speaks Creole, French and English. She has very clean English. She owes that to not having many Haitian friends after coming to the US. Marie is very athletic, loves to listen/dance to hip hop, and loves to travel. She has enjoyed her career filled with campaign ads, fitness competitions, fashion shows, not to mention working in front of the camera on TV.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to an immigrant family from Martinique, Francois Duvalier had always wanted to be a doctor, and after graduation he earned a medical degree and served as a doctor in many rural areas of Haiti, where he gained a reputation for showing the rural poor how to fight typhus and other fatal diseases. In 1946 he was appointed director general of the National Health Service, and four years later was made Minister of Health and Minister of Labor. In 1949 the government was overthrown by a military coup led by Gen. Paul Magloire. Duvalier was a vocal opponent of the coup, resulting in his being forced to go into hiding until 1956, when an amnesty was declared.

Duvalier ran for president in the general election of 1957, and in a portent of things to come, he used armed gangs, paid assassins, racial hatreds (he campaigned as a champion of poor Haitians, who were mostly of dark-skinned African descent, against the lighter-skinned mulatto class which held most of the power in the country) and the army to help him win the election. He also took advantage of the traditions of voodoo, a quasi-religious movement deeply ingrained in Haitian culture, and claimed to be a "houngan", or voodoo priest.

A year after his election he narrowly escaped being overthrown in a military coup, and as a result he purged the army, replacing senior officers who he believed weren't loyal enough to him, and formed a personal militia that was responsible to him and him alone. Technically it was called the Volunteer Militia for National Security, but it became better known by the term "Tonton Macoutes", which was Creole for "Boogeymen" (he unit was modeled on the Blackshirt private militia of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whom Duvalier greatly admired). The Macoutes' sole responsibility was to protect Duvalier at all costs, and there were no restraints placed on them. They could beat, rape or murder anyone they thought was or could be a threat to Duvalier, and as a result they gained such a reputation for ruthlessness, savagery and brutality that many Haitians didn't even consider them human but evil spirits and satanic forces, hence their nickname of "Boogeymen". Duvalier organized another private army called the Presidential Guard. Their job was also to watch for threats to Duvalier, and to keep an eye on the Macoutes to be sure they didn't become one.

In 1961 Duvalier rewrote the Haitian constitution and then held an "election" in which he was the only candidate. Officially, more then one million voters cast their ballots for Duvalier. Several years later he declared himself President for Life, and in an area noted for its repressive regimes, his government became infamous as one of the most corrupt and murderous in the region. It's estimated that at least 30,000 Haitians were killed by Duvalier's security forces during his regime, although the actual toll is generally thought to be much higher. Many economists have estimated that at least half of the country's yearly income was stolen by Duvalier and his cronies; while Duvalier's family and friends lived in the lap of luxury, the vast majority of the Haitian people lived on the brink of starvation, suffering from a host of diseases that had been eradicated in many other countries. The unemployment rate was estimated by the UN and other agencies to be at least 50% and as high as 80%, and the infant mortality rate was not only the highest in the Western Hemisphere but was also higher than many of the poorest countries in Africa. It was reported that Duvalier himself wore on a ring around his neck the key that unlocked the room in the National Treasury where the country's gold supply was kept; he didn't want anyone in the country getting their hands on it but him.

The US administration of President John F. Kennedy at first placed political and economic sanctions against Haiti because of its corruption and use of violence against its own citizens, but in 1962 it eased the sanctions to keep Duvalier from cozying up to Cuba's Fidel Castro, as he had threatened to do if the sanctions weren't lifted. In 1963 tensions between Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic rose almost to the point of war, but it was prevented by internal political power struggles in the Dominican Republic and mediation by the Organization of American States (OAS).

Although there were several attempted coups by disgruntled or ambitious army officers, they were swiftly crushed--one attempt in 1967 resulted in the execution of more than 20 officers of the Presidential Guard. Duvalier died in 1971, and his 19-year-old son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, succeeded him.

Krystel Roche is a multilingual actress and model who speaks French, Créole, English and Spanish. She won the Award for Best Actress at the Open World Toronto Film Festival. Ever since kindergarten, Krystel was exposed to a crowd and performed in school dance and theater. Straight from High School, she left her entire family behind and went to New York to focus on her education and her acting career. She now resides in Los Angeles, California

Rodrigue Milien was born on 27 October 1946 in Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was an actor and composer, known for A la mise pou Rodrig (1980), Rodrigue Milien Et Son Groupe Combite Creole: Omage A Ti Paris (1981) and Hommage à Rodrigue Milien: Live à Kasa Champèt (2021). He died on 25 September 2021 in Fountainhead Care Center, North Miami, Florida, USA.

Born in Haiti, Gilbert Mirambeau Jr. is a producer, writer and activist. He's the general manager of Muska Group, a leading audiovisual production company based in Haiti. In 2015, he co-founded Muska Films to produce socially engaged films exploring themes on society and politics and spark difficult conversations. He produced his first feature Kafou (Fiction, 2017) nominated for best film at Austin Film Festival and won Best Feature at FEMI and ECU film festival. Later on, he co-produced Kidnapping Inc. (Fiction,2021), Brave (Short Documentary, 2021) and With Naomie (Documentary, 2022). Gilbert is an alumni of the producer's Lab of EFM (2022) and Locarno (2022). Today, Gilbert is focused on his next feature, Dorval Street (Documentary, 2024) and The Other Side of the Sea (Documentary, 2024).

Théodore Beaubrun was born on 26 December 1918 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was an actor and writer, known for Languichatte in the 20th Century (1978), The New Adventures of Languichatte (1988) and Fournérailles (1985). He died on 30 June 1998 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Hervé Denis was born in 1940 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was an actor, known for Udenrigskorrespondenten (1983), Concerto pour un exil (1968) and Tiga: Haiti, Dream, Creation, Possession, Madness (2001). He was married to Magaly Denis. He died on 21 April 2002 in Petionville, Haiti.

Joseph Hillel was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is known for Soft Shell Man (2001), Ayiti Toma, au pays des vivants (2013) and Les prisonniers de Beckett (2005).

Won-G was born on 29 August 1978 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor, known for The Nickel Children (2005), Hack! (2007) and Won-G: Caught Up in the Rapture (2004).

Florence Regina is an award-winning producer/actress/director/motivational speaker. Her production company, Soleil Films, produces films, staged productions, and events. Past film productions include film festival favorites, Bringing Up Baybay, Copelessness, Art and more.

She was born in Haiti and came to the U.S. at the age of five. She began working in the entertainment industry in New York City, where she grew up.

From NYC to LA she's performed as an actress on stage, film, and TV. Acting credits include: The HBO Max drama series, The flight Attendant; the CBS TV series, Bull; Comedy Central's Broad City; and more. She's also had several national commercial spots.

She's taught, directed and performed in improvisational theater at the famed 13th Street Repertory Theater Company in New York City, and was a member of the Theateroke Improv Troupe at the NY Comedy Club.

She's produced several notable events, including A Focus On International Short Films: An Evening Of Haitian Filmmaking, which was presented by the Women In film International Committee and Los Angeles City Council President, Eric Garcetti (now Mayor of Los Angeles).

She spent 3 years as a member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Diabetes Association's African-American Diabetes Task Force, where she became a motivational speaker. Today she's an award-winning motivational speaker, who travels and speaks about different topics including but not limited to: Diabetes Awareness and Advocacy, The Human Experience, Achievement & Success and, Women in the Entertainment Industry, etc.

She is a member of the Board of Directors for The Haiti International Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Centaur Stage in New York, NY.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 25th 1939 In 1958 he graduated with a degree in chemistry from City College of New York 1959 he studied at the Sorbonne. By 1962, he had obtained a graduate degree in biochemistry 1965, At Cornell Medical Center, he supervised a staff synthesizing metabolic steroids Beauvoir joined an engineering company that had him set up shop in North Jersey, then a digital equipment(DEC)company in Massachusetts. His interest in steroids brought him back to Haiti in January 1973 to experiment with hydrocortisone synthesized from plants. From 1974 until 1994, Beauvoir was one of the most respected voodoo priests on the island, enjoying celebrity, power, and great esteem. Beauvoir is a Western- educated biochemist who has a hecogenin US patent in 1979 When Harvard anthropologist Wade Davis came to Haiti in 1982 to research what would become his acclaimed book on Haiti, voodoo, and zombies. The Serpent and the Rainbow it was Beauvoir to whom he turned for help.

Luck Mervil was born on 20 October 1967 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor and composer, known for Notre-Dame de Paris (1998), Les Boys (1997) and Alias Betty (2001).

Valensky Sylvain is one of the founding members of Dark Elf Films. V acts primarily as Dark Elf's producer and casting director and oversees several of Dark Elf's projects at one time including short and full length films, web series, commercials and music videos; which range in genre from comedies to action, to hard romance and fantasy, just to name a few.

Life began for V in New York- Brooklyn to be precise, where he started in the entertainment industry as a theatre actor at the age of five. With a long list of credits to his name, he eventually expanded his interests to film and has had a hunger for it ever since.

Known for his thunderous laugh, quirky sense of humor and impeccable networking skills, V can most often be found mentoring and encouraging other young artists on the set of several Dark Elf Films productions including Breaking Point, Technopolis, GameStore, Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave and Bond among others.

V offers the following advice to young filmmakers and actors: "Hone your skills and never give up." V lives by the most inspirational advice he was ever given: "One day we'll find the balance between who we wish to be and who we need to be. But for now we have to be satisfied with who we are."