Jean Reno

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Gender: Male
Born: 30th July 1948 (currently 63 years old)
Nationality: France, Morocco
TV programs: Le grand journal de Canal+
Movies: Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse, French Kiss, Godzilla, Hotel Rwanda, Just Visiting, Léon: The Professional, Mission: Impossible, Rollerball, Ronin, The Big Blue, The Crimson Rivers, The Da Vinci Code, The Pink Panther, Wasabi, Nikita, Les Visiteurs II, Flushed Away, Flyboys, The Tiger and the Snow, Jet Lag, Les Visiteurs, Margaret, Tais-toi!, Subway, L'Empire des loups, The Pink Panther 2, Le Dernier Combat, Roseanna's Grave, Armored, Le Premier Cercle, Couples Retreat, The Round Up, Jaguar, 22 Bullets, The Corsican File, Beyond the Clouds, The Philosopher, Cash, Raspoutine, Comme un chef, I, Alex Cross, You Don't Choose Your Family, Soeurs Soleil, Les, La Passante du Sans-Souci, Loulou Graffiti, Strictement personnel, Nikita, I Love You, L'opération Corned-Beef, Porco Rosso, Womanlight, The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, L'Homme Au Masque D'Or, Flight from Justice, The Newton Boys, L'avant dernier

Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez known as Jean Reno (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁeno]; born July 30, 1948) is a French-Spanish actor. Working in French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther (2006), Godzilla (1998), The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat, but also in European productions such as the French films Les Visiteurs (1993), its sequel Les Visiteurs 2 (1998) and Léon (1994) along with the 2005 Italian film The Tiger and the Snow.

Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco. His Spanish parents were natives of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), and had moved to North Africa to find work and escape the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. His father was a linotypist. His mother died when he was a teenager, and he has a younger sister named María Teresa ("Maite"). Reno was raised Catholic. He moved to France at the age of seventeen and studied acting in the Cours Simon School of Drama.

Due to his tall, hulking frame (1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)), he mostly played villainous brutes early on in his career. He later appeared in

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