Jean Brassard
A son of Quebec, Canada, Jean can be seen on NBC's season 4 and 7 of The Blacklist opposite James Spader, Hulu's hit comedy show RAMY, on Showtime's acclaimed Escape at Dannemora directed by Ben Stiller as well as in Season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and in Lydia Dean Pilcher's WWII movie A Call To Spy. Watch for him in the upcoming season 5 of CBS hit show MacGyver. He also featured in Person of Interest and HBO's The Wizard of Lies (opposite Michelle Pfeiffer.) He can be seen in Josh Boone's box office hit The Fault In Our Stars, based on John Green's highly acclaimed novel with Shailene Woodley's and Ansel Elgort. Other movies include The Caller, Death in Love, Ten Stories Tall, Mango Bajito and J.C. Khoury's romantic cult comedy The Pill. He received critical praise from the New York Times among others for his role as Ambassador in Film Chinois at Pan Asian Rep and in Theater Pizzaz in The Lears.
Jean recently returned from London where he performed his homage to Charles Aznavour "I Have Lived," to great reviews and popular acclaim. He is a Bistro and AGGIE awards recipient for his tribute show "The Kid From Paris - Jean Brassard Sings Yves Montand" for which he also garnered a MAC nomination. Co-written with and directed by David Krueger, the show has traveled in the States, Canada and Europe. In New York he has performed at New York's Birdland's, Laurie Beechman Theater, Metropolitan Room, The Triad, Helen's Hideaway and The Café at the Pierre Hotel; he has been the guest of Steve Ross at the Metropolitan Museum on his "Dietz and Schwartz" and "Americans in Paris" programs. With the group Kabarett Kollektif, Jean was also awarded a NightLife Award. He was seen at Symphony Space's Wall To Wall Cabaret alongside Uteh Lemper and many cabaret greats. He also represented Quebec at the first Manhattan International Cabaret Festival in 2016. With Le Gamin de Paris CD, his homage to Montand, his album DIX, a collection of his own compositions, has been praised by the press. Bigmondemusique.com.
Well known to French-speaking wrestling fans around the world for his commentary on the WWE Network, Jean has also appeared on: House of Cards, Zero Hour, 30 Rock and Believe, HBO mini-series John Adams, opposite Laura Linney, Law and Order, Law and Order: CSI, Sex and the City, and The Sopranos. He can also be seen on the webseries Horrible People.
His voice over career spans over two decades for the US, Canadian and European markets for which he has voiced hundreds of projects for commercials, documentaries and more. Jean is also the narrator of more than 60 titles for Audible.com, Hachette and others. Along with the cast of Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody, he was honored by AudioFile Magazine with an Earphones Award given for excellence in audiobooks.