The Escape Artist

If you read his IMDB profile, you see a successful actor-a guy whose face you’ve seen in TV shows, mostly the bad guy. So what?

The backstory of Ian Jarvis.

A nice Jewish boy from New Jersey quits Georgetown University in his junior year and crosses the country in a Chevy truck. He does some plum work as a drug dealer, escapes half a dozen FBI agents at an airport, and lives eight years as a federal fugitive in Paris, London, Ibiza, Corsica, and Morocco. Turning thirty, he decides to return to the US, face the mess he left behind, and find a way back on the rails of the American dream.

To reconnect with his daughter, to create the stability she’s never had, Ian, assisted by fluent French and a fabricated resumé, talks way to his first real job: US salesperson for Paris based multinational, Saint Gobain. He’s named Vice President of the US division a mere eighteen months later. He goes on to have a highly successful career in the cosmetics industry.

The acting he got paid for came after that.

This is an American success story unlike any other.