The origin story of Jean Valjean, the iconic protagonist of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece “Les Misérables,” is being brought to the bigscreen by Éric Besnard, the French director of 18th-century set movie ...

NEW YORK -- Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape, ...

In some truly tragic news from the Broadway world, Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the youngest actor to ever play the iconic lead role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and the first black actor to do so, died ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- The first African-American to ever play the role of Jean Valjean on Broadway in "Les Misérables'' has died. Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, died Friday night after falling off his ...

EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Lindon and Tahar Rahim will hit the big screen next year in Fred Cavayé's action-skewed adaptation of Les ...

Dominic West laughs easily, smiles warmly. His character in Masterpiece PBS's Les Misérables, the long-suffering ex-convict Jean Valjean, does not. If anything, Valjean is West's idol, rather than his ...

Jean Valjean is basically a superhero already (he lifts a whole cart off a guy by himself at one point), and now he’s getting the requisite origin story to boot. Anyone who’s ever so much as breathed ...

Nick Cartell dreamed a dream of playing Jean Valjean, and now that dream has come true. The Phoenix native who played student rebel Marius about 10 years ago in his hometown, has jumped to the ...

A revolution is coming to Syracuse, a 19th-century French revolution that is. The Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables is coming to the Landmark Theatre beginning March 26. Nick Cartell, an ...

Since the original publication of Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Miserables” more than 150 years ago, the brutal conflict between the convict-turned-savior Jean Valjean and ruthless pursuer Inspector Javert ...

NEW YORK --Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape, according ...