Jean Reno

Juan Moreno y Herrera–Jiménez (born 30 July 1948), known as Jean Reno (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁeno]), is a French actor of Andalusian Spanish origin. He has worked in American, French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Italian movie productions; Reno appeared in films such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, Les Visiteurs, Wasabi, The Big Blue, Hector and the Search for Happiness and Léon: The Professional.

Reno was born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez in Casablanca, Morocco.[1] His parents were Spanish, natives of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia. They had moved to North Africa to find work and escape Francoist Spain.[citation needed]

He has a younger sister named María Teresa (“Maite”); the children were raised Catholic.[2] Their father was a linotypist.[3] Their mother died when he was a teenager.[2] He learned Spanish from his parents, and Arabic and French growing up in Morocco.