Jean Reno
Jean Reno
Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez, known as Jean Reno, is a French actor. Of Spanish descent, he has worked in French, English, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian, and appeared in films such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, Les visiteurs, The Big Blue, and Léon: The Professional...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 July 1948
CityCasablanca, Morocco
CountryFrance
I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
There is partial truth to that rumor. The president did say I would be good in the role, but when he said that, he didn't know I'd already been cast. His approval wasn't needed -- I'd already been selected by Steve Martin.
We honor a group of young people who were essential in bringing down a reviled dictatorship.
I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.
Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.
I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.
Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.
I see most of my movies at festivals.
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.