Jean LeClerc is a Québécois

French-speaking Quebecer

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 actor

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. In the original French, his name is spelled Jean Leclerc. He is best known for his work in the United States

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 as Jeremy Hunter on the American daytime soap opera

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s All My Children

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and Loving

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in the 1980s and 1990s.

LeClerc first started his career in Quebec on the television series Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut

Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut

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. Roles in Québécois movies followed, culminating in his first English-speaking role in the 1976 Canadian film, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room.