To be broadcast Thursday, January 14, 2010  

New York, NY - January 14, 2010 - Haitian native and "Heroes" cast member Jimmy Jean-Louis heard from his elderly parents in Haiti while taping an interview in Los Angeles for Inside Edition Thursday morning. Jean-Louis had been trying to reach them in Haiti for the last two days.

The call came during a taping for Inside Edition.  "I started to get worried last night," Jean-Louis tells Inside Edition when he still hadn't heard from his family.

After speaking with his mother by phone, Jean-Louis breaks down in tears tells Inside Edition he needs to find a way to get down to Haiti.

"I need to go there asap to take care of him (my dad) and my mom."

Jean-Louis was relieved to hear that his parents' home sustained no real damage but they told him by phone that they are sleeping outside because they are "scared to go inside."

Jean-Louis, who is best known as "The Haitian" on the NBC series "Heroes," is the founder of Hollywood Unites for Haiti, a nonprofit organization to provide sports and cultural education to underprivileged kids in Haiti. The group is mobilizing for disaster relief after a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Tuesday.

Jean-Louis is also on the board of AristsforPeaceandJustice.com which is collecting donations for relief efforts. http://www.artistsforpeaceandjustice.com/

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