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.
No women no kids - that's the rules.
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.
There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
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.
In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.
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.
I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
I see most of my movies at festivals.
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.
At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.
Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.