Sebastian Roche

Sebastian Charles Edward Roché (born 4 August 1964) is a French entertainer. He is known for his character as Kurt Mendel in ‘Odyssey 5’, Jerry Jacks in ‘General Hospital’, Thomas Jerome Newton in ‘Fringe’, Balthazar in ‘Supernatural’, Mikael in both ‘ The Vampire Diaries As is evident from the name, The Vampire Diaries d >> Read More... ’ and ‘ The Originals The Originals is an American television series by >> Read More... ’, and Reichsminister Martin Hausmann in ‘The Man in the High Castle’.

Roché was born in Paris to a Scottish mother, Gail Stewart, and a French father, Philippe Roché. He was named Sebastian Charles Edward after Jacobite Charles Edward Stuart. From age 12 to 18, Roché lived on a boat with his folks and siblings, making a trip to the Mediterranean, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. He is multilingual and can communicate fluently in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Roché was instructed at the Cours Florent in Paris and the école Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre, and went to the prestigious French National Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which he graduated in 1989. He moved to New York City in 1992.

Roché started his acting profession in the made-for-TV film The Murders in the Rue Morgue, seeming opposite Ian McShane and Val Kilmer, which circulated on CBS on 7 December 1986. All through the last part of the 1980s, he played parts in French TV and film, including the films ‘Adieu Je T'aime’ (1988), ‘La Queue de la Comète’ (1988), ‘La Révolution Française’ (1989), and ‘A Woman's Revenge’ (1990), and the TV series ‘Bonjour Maître’ (1987) and ‘The Hitchhiker’ (1989–1991). Roché likewise has a broad traditional auditorium foundation, prominently featuring in ‘Salome’ (1992) with Al Pacino at the Circle in the Square Theatre; ‘Titus Andronicus’ (1994) with the Theater for a New Audience, coordinated by Julie Taymor; ‘ Macbeth Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (1994) at the Classic Stage Company, coordinated by Jack Stehlin; and ‘Arms and the Man’ (1995) in Hartford, Connecticut, coordinated by Mark Lamos. He showed up in a supporting job in the Daniel Day-Lewis-featuring authentic epic ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which was released in the United States on 25 September 1992. On American TV, he seemed in ‘ Loving Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (1992), ‘South Beach’ (1993), ‘New York Undercover’ (1996), ‘Swift Justice’ (1996), and ‘Liberty!’ (1997).

In 1997, Roché was important for the principle projected in the Fox fantasy experience series ‘Roar’, assuming the part of Saint Longinus. He featured opposite Heath Ledger and Vera Farmiga. The series was dropped because of low evaluations later that very year. Roché's a huge number of TV credits incorporate repeating and visitor featuring stretches in series such as ‘Feds’ (1997), ‘Dellaventura’ (1997), ‘Sex and the City’ (1998), ‘Merlin’ (1998), ‘Law and Order’ (1999), and ‘Big Apple’ (2001). In 1998, he got back to the stage in the Off-Broadway creation of ‘Trainspotting’ at the Players Theater. In 2000, he depicted Prince Renzo in the Broadway production of ‘The Green Bird’ at the Cort Theater. The play denoted his second cooperation with Chief Julie Taymor. That same year, he showed up in the TV film ‘The Crossing’ opposite Jeff Daniels, which broadcasted on A&E on 10 January 2000. He likewise played a minor part in the Robert De Niro-featuring thrill-ride film ‘15 Minutes’, which was released on 9 March 2001.

In 2002, Roché started depicting Kurt Mendel in the Canadian sci-fi series ‘Odyssey 5’ for Showtime. He stayed in the job until the show's undoing a year after the fact. In the pilot scene, he communicated in French. He additionally visitor featured in scenes of ‘Touching Evil’ (2004), ‘ Charmed Charmed, as the name suggests is a supernatural se >> Read More... ’ (2005), ‘ Alias Alias was an English action television series that >> Read More... ’ (2005), ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ (2005), and ‘The Unit’ (2006). Roché then co-featured in the Mira Nair-coordinated drama film ‘ The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, released on 9 March 2007, and in the Darby Crash biopic ‘What We Do Is Secret’, released on 8 August 2008. He along these lines co-featured with Freddie Prinze, Jr. in the parody drama ‘New York City Serenade’, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2007.

Roché next featured in the movement catch epic dream film ‘Beowulf’, alongside Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, which was coordinated by Robert Zemeckis and released two films on 16 November 2007. He repeated his job as Wulfgar from the film in the going with video game ‘Beowulf: The Game’, released on 13 November 2007. In 2007, Roché started showing up in the ABC soap opera ‘General Hospital’ as psychological oppressor/criminal Jerry Jacks (although, when the person returned, he was passing by the pen name Craig). By mid-2009, Jerry had negligible screen time and was eventually worked out. Afterward, from July to August 2009, Roché got back to the series in a repetitive limit and returned to the job in December 2010. From August 2012 to October 2013, Roché again returned as the person on a repetitive premise. He featured in an aggregate of 319 scenes and has spoken Russian, Spanish, and French in the series.

In 2009, Roché's visitor featured in ‘The Mentalist’ as Shirali Arlov, and as John Quinn in both ‘24: Redemption’ (2008), and the 2009 season of ‘24’. He then, at that point, showed up in the satire drama film ‘Happy Tears’ with Demi Moore and Parker Posey, released on 19 February 2010, and loaned his voice to the vivified film ‘The Adventures of Tintin’, coordinated by Steven Spielberg and released on 21 December 2011. In 2010, Roché joined the repetitive cast of The CW's drama series ‘Supernatural’. He featured in six scenes of the 6th season as Balthazar, a rebel heavenly messenger and long-term companion of the individual angel Castiel. He was next projected in the Fox sci-fi drama series ‘Fringe’, repeating in the second and third seasons as Thomas Jerome Newton, the head of a multitude of shapeshifters from a parallel universe and a principal enemy of the series.

In 2011, Roché started repeating as Mikael, the dad of the Original Vampires, in The CW's heavenly show series ‘The Vampire Diaries’. He then, at that point, repeated as Clyde Easter in the CBS procedural crime drama series ‘ Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police crime fiction >> Read More... ’. Roché next played a supporting part in the activity thrill-ride film ‘ Safe House Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, starring  Ryan Reynolds He is one of the dashing debonair of Hollywood. He >> Read More...  and Denzel Washington, which was released on 10 February 2012. Likewise in 2012, he showed up in NBC's procedural dream drama series ‘Grimm’. He then, at that point, featured in William Brent Bell's shock film ‘Wer’, released first in Japan on 16 November 2013.

From 2014 to 2015, and proceeding through 2018, Roché repeated his job as Mikael in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ spin-off series, ‘The Originals’. Roché then, at that point, featured in the American crime show thrill-ride film ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ alongside  Liam Neeson I don't know who you are. I don't know wha >> Read More... , released on 19 September 2014. In March 2014, he joined ABC's political drama series ‘Scandal’ in a repetitive limit. In December 2014, it was reported that Roché would visitor star in season four of ABC's fairy tale drama series ‘Once Upon a Time’ as King Stefan. Roché featured Pierre Curie in a scene of the narrative miniseries ‘The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements’, which circulated on PBS on 19 August 2015. Roché then visitor featured in season seven of CBS' procedural drama series ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’, as Lee Ashman.

In 2016, Roché co-featured as Cardinal Michel Marivaux in Paolo Sorrentino's show series ‘The Young Pope’, alongside Jude Law and James Cromwell. He likewise had a featuring job in the subsequent season and third season of Amazon Video's show series ‘The Man in the High Castle as Martin Heusmann’, the offended Nazi dad of principal character Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank). Roché co-featured in ‘Christopher Gorham's first time at the helm comedy ‘We Love You, Sally Carmichael!’ (2017), depicting film star Perry Quinn, alongside Gorham and  Bitsie Tulloch Bitsie Tulloch was born on 19th January 1981 in Sa >> Read More... . He then, at that point, showed up as Emile Gilot, the dad of French painter Françoise Gilot, in the second period of the National Geographic anthology series ‘ Genius Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. Roché has been projected in a current variation of the Molière play Tartuffe, making his West End theatre debut as Orgon. He will depict Klaus Jager in the war film ‘Burning at Both Ends’, opposite Cary Elwes and Judd Hirsch. He will likewise seem in ‘Tides’ directed by Tim Felhbaum inverse Iain Glen Iain Glen was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotla >> Read More... and Nora Arnezeder just as the Michael Bay Michael, who was adopted by Harriet and Jim was ra >> Read More... coordinated movie ‘6 Underground’ with Ryan Reynolds for Netflix. He was likewise given a role as Dr. Ethan Campbell in the new CW series ‘Batwoman‘. He likewise visitor featured as Hannibal Teague in the series ‘Macgyver’ in 2020

By 2021 he was repeating in both the NBC science fiction drama ‘Debris’ as the perplexing MI6 specialist Brill and in the ABC drama ‘Big Sky’ as the bad Sheriff John Wagy.

Roché met American actress Vera Farmiga while co-featuring with her in the Fox series ‘Roar’. They ran off to the Bahamas after the series finished in 1998, and lived on a 117-section of land home in Upstate New York. Following seven years of marriage, Roché and Farmiga separated in 2004. On 31 May 2014, he wedded Australian entertainer Alicia Hannah (née Kim) at the Chateau Les Bouysses in Mercuès, France. The couple co-featured in the film ‘We Love You, Sally Carmichael!’ (2017).