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Sebastian Roché

セバスチャン・ロッシェ　/　せばすちゃん・ろっしぇ

Television actor from France

August 4, 1964 (age 61)　・　Paris, France

television actor
film actor
stage actor

My Take

Sebastian Roché is one of those faces every TV fan recognizes even without placing the name, and I mean that as high praise. A Parisian working across American television, he has played angels, vampires, scientists, and a chilling minister in The Man in the High Castle, bringing the same theatrical precision to all of them. What I respect most is his refusal to coast: character actors of his caliber elevate every scene they enter, and Roché has done it for decades across Fringe, Supernatural, and The Originals. His French-American duality gives him an otherness casting directors clearly treasure. He is the connective tissue of genre television, and I love him for it.

Overview

Sebastian Roché (born 4 August 1964) is a French-American actor. He is known for his roles 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 and The Originals, and Reichsminister Martin Heusmann in The Man in the High Castle.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Sebastian Roché
Name (Japanese): セバスチャン・ロッシェ
Reading: せばすちゃん・ろっしぇ
Born: August 4, 1964 (age 61)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Dragon
Origin: Paris, France
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: television actor / film actor / stage actor / screenwriter / actor

2. Background

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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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