Jean LeClerc (actor)
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Jean LeClerc (born July 7, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Québécois actor. In the original French, his name is spelled Jean Leclerc. He is best known for his work in the United States as Jeremy Hunter on All My Children and Loving in the 1980s and 1990s. He stands well over 6' tall.
He first started his career in Quebec on the television series Les belles histoires des Pays-d'en-Haut. Roles in Québécois movies followed, culminating in his first English-speaking role in the 1976 Canadian film, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room. That same year, he acted in a television miniseries on the life of Sarah Bernhardt. He played the role of Jacques Damala, Bernhardt's husband for a few years.
LeClerc moved to the United States in 1982, playing the part of a French doctor on the soap opera The Doctors. He played similar kinds of roles on The Edge of Night and As the World Turns before being offered the role of Jeremy Hunter in 1985. This was the first time he was slated to play an American, and it would prove to be his most lucrative role.
He also appeared on Broadway as the title character in a production of Dracula.
In 1991, All My Children loaned actor LeClerc as "Jeremy" and actress Genie Francis, as Jeremy's love interest, "Ceara Connor" to the lowly rated soap opera, Loving for the November sweeps period in an effort to boost the show's ratings. The following year, in 1992, LeClerc left All My Children to join Loving full-time (minus his now on-screen wife, Ceara, who had been written of All My Children earlier that year). LeClerc played his character for three more years before leaving the program in 1995 when his character was murdered as part of the show's murder mystery storyline. In 2001, LeClerc briefly reprised his role as "Jeremy Hunter" on All My Children, when his spirit appeared in Heaven, along with Natalie Marlowe, Jesse Hubbard, Travis Montgomery and Cindy Chandler.
In the winter of 1995, LeClerc moved back to Canada full-time and commenced acting for the national and Quebec markets. He most recently appeared in a Patty Duke Show television reunion special in the United States, as well as in the 2005 film Idole instantanée.
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Ragan, David (1992) "Leclerc, Jean" Who's Who in Hollywood: The largest cast of international film personalities ever assembled Facts on File, New York;
