Biography
Jean Renault - the famous French actor with Spanish roots. Received popularity after the release of the Drama "Leon" and was in demand as a lone killer. Renault attracted the attention of viewers and other films. In parallel, the comedy career of the actor was developed: it became popular and as a graph of the funny film "Aliens". The pearls of the filmography of the artist were also paintings by Wasabi, "Unzovable", "Da Vinci" and "Godzilla".Childhood and youth
Jean Reno, originally called Juan Moreno, was born in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. Parents were immigrants from Spain, who had to leave the native country due to the arrival of the Military Dictator Francisco Franco.
The first 12 years, the boy with his parents lived on the African continent, and then the family returns to Europe by choosing more liberal France. But the citizenship of foreign subjects was not easy, so parents had to be arranged to work specialties. Mom got a handful, and his father went to work in the printing house.
When Jana was 17 years old, his mother died suddenly. To break through in a new country, a guy was needed by a French passport, and for the sake of it, Renault is recorded by recruitment to the National Guard. He served in the army of 4 years and becoming officially French citizen, Jean Reno decides to associate his life with the theater or cinema, since he has attracted him from childhood an actor profession.
In 1970, he begins to attend actor's courses in the famous studio Rene Simon in Paris. In the same period, he takes a pseudonym, transferring his name Juan to the French transcription Jean, and from the surname discarded the two first letters. During training in courses, the young man works around where it was possible. It is known that he worked by the driver, an accountant and even a customs officer.
After a time, having received a lot of theoretical knowledge, a novice actor debuts in television shows on local television in the TV series "One Mystery per day", and later on the theater scene in the philosophical play "This is a person", delivered by Friedrich Nietzsche. The first full-length film for Jean Renault was the painting "Hypothesis of Stolen Picture" in 1978.
Films
Despite the fairly good career of the theater actor, the business in the movie in the Renault did not develop at all. Probably, the world would not know about him as a big film actor, if not a meeting of Jean with a young director Lyuko Besson. In 1981, a short film "The Praultiy" comes out, after 2 years - the "last battle".
These film contractions were interested in the viewer, but the next tape "Subway", which appeared on the screens in 1985, made it says to the Jeans Renault all France, even though his role was secondary. High, static artist (Jean growth, in different sources, 188-190 cm, weight - 86 kg) was different in the frame of his charisma.
A number of films followed by other directors, for example, "the phone always calls twice," "purely personal matter", "I love you" and "Red Zone". After that, Jean Reno is reunited again with Besso and performs the role of Diver Enzo Molinari in the Blue Daznnaya tape. This job brought the actor the first nomination for the "Cesar" award.
In 1990, Renault fulfills the secondary role of the murderer in the criminal thriller "Nikita" and first appears in the image of an unshaven lone killer, which will become his business card for many years. His favorite director Luke Veson, seeing the episode in the film "Nikita", especially under Renault writes a script and develops a project next picture.
In 1994, the psychological thriller "Leon" comes out and brings fantastic popularity of both the director and executors of the main roles - Jean Reno and Young Natalie Portman. The creative biography of the actor rises to a new round.
Jean tried to change the opinion of himself as an actor of one character and participated in the films of other genres: in the historic comedy "Aliens", the romantic comedy "French kiss", modern Western "Jaguar", a surrealistic melodrama "behind the clouds", incendiary filmcoming " Cemetery "and others. Some of these works were successful, but it was the image of the villain-loner for Renault a ticket to the world of American cinema and on the set of Hollywood.
The first overseas film for Renault, a blockbuster "Mission is impossible", in which the main role is performed by Tom Cruise. Directed by Brian de Palma invited actor to the role of the secret agent of Franz Krighera, as he decided that Jean was able to impress the viewer, without saying a single word. The next, even more successful, the work was the fantastic film "Godzilla". This time, Jean Reno was given the opportunity to demonstrate the role of a "good guy", and the actor coped perfectly with a man who saves the world from the monster.
An artist in a pair with an excellent Robert de Niro in Island militant "Ronin" has exceeded. This work is considered the best in the execution of the actor in the past century. But the new millennium, Jean Reno opened even more significant success. A psychological thriller "Bagrov River" was released on the screens on the famous novel Jean-Christopher Grine and won such high popularity that the scenarios immediately sat for writing the continuation, which appeared after 4 years called "Baghrovaya Rivers - 2: Angels of the Apocalypse".
In 2001, an American adaptation of the "aliens" appeared. The film is considered a remake of the original painting, wearing the name "Aliens in America", but the main roles in the comedy were performed by Jean Reno and Christian Klava, who, as in the original, played a graph and a squire from medieval France. The names of the heroes changed: the graph of de Mondimiya turned into de Malfet, and the servant instead of Jacket became Andre. And, as follows from the name, travelers in time fall into modern US.
In the same year, another picture came out with Renault in the lead role, which became famous worldwide. The actor played the role of Commissioner of the Police of Jubera Fiorentini in the comedy militant "Vasabi". An eccentric police officer learns that he has an almost adult daughter, a semi-bridge, which a new-minced father is trying to protect from Yakuza, who announced the hunt for a girl.
It is also worth noting such work of the beginning of the 21st century, as the comedy "unlucky", where Gerard Depardieu became a partner of Renault on the film, the "History of Love", in which Jean appeared in a duet with Julietary Binos. Later, the actor shone in the criminal filmcomy "Pink Panther", the dramatic thriller "Collector", the film comic "Corsican", the film with the popular Roman Dan Brown "Da Vinci Code", the Franco-Spanish culinary comedy "Chef". Especially spectators and critics impressed the star game in the screening of the novel Jean-Christopher grump "Empire of Wolves."
In 2014, a new film was released with Jean Reno - adventure tragicomedy "Hector's travel in search of happiness." Here he got a secondary role.
In 2016, after a 17-year break, Jean Reno appeared again on the screens as a graph of Godfru de Mondai in the fantastic comedy "Aliens-3: Taking Bastille." In the new sequel, the famous graph and squire moved in 1789, during the revolution times.
In January 2017, a comedy premiere with Jean Renault was held in the lead role of "Family Robbery". The actor plays the role of Patrick's thief operating internationally. The criminal comes up with a plan for the robbery, in which the daughters of Patrick participate, have never seen the father in life. The thief decided to combine "work" and attempt to restore family relationships with abandoned children.
In the same year, the actor became a member of the filming of the adventure fantasy "Polina and the Mystery of the Film Studio", the work on which France, Belgium and Ukraine were occupied. In the center of the narration lies a fabulous story about the journey of a little girl into a magical country in order to learn the truth about parents. The main role was performed by Polina Artenenko.
Among the novelties in the filmography of 2017, the thriller "Girl in the fog" is listed. Renault appeared in the form of a police officer who is investigating the mysterious murder that occurred in the provincial town.
The French actor has repeatedly become a participant in promotional actions. In 2017, Jean Reno in Leon appeared on the GRAND website. Touch legend. " Photo and video and other cult actors were used in the advertising campaign: Ala Pacino and George Clooney, accompanied by popular quotes of artists.
A year later, the artist appeared in the PNK GROUP commercial "Extreme Tour of PNK. Part 2 "in the image of the guide, more similar to the special agent in resignation. At the end of the year, the video clip hit the top 10 most visible viral rollers of the Russian segment of Youtube.
Personal life
The first marriage of Jean Reno concluded, not yet being a famous actor. The name of the wife and remained the public to the unknown. Two children were born in this union - the daughter of Sandra and the son of Mikael. The divorce happened through the fault of Jean, as he tied a novel with a fashion model from Poland Natalia Dyshkevich, who became the second spouse Renault. From this marriage from the actor there is a son Tom and the daughter of Serena. Union was discontinued in 2001.Embed from getty imagesAfter 5 years, the personal life of the artist again played with paints. Jean Reno married the third time. The director of the actor became the Romanian fashion model and actress Zofi Boruk, with which he met in New York.
Interestingly, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Nicolas Sarkozy was the witness from the bridegroom. The celebration took place in the town of Le B-de Provence in the south of France. At the event, in addition to relatives and friends, there were celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Charles Aznavour, Elton John, Monica Bellucci. In the third marriage, the spouse gave the actor two more children - sons, which were called Siele and Dean.
Lives Renault alternately in the Paris Apartment and in the mansions in Los Angeles and Malaysia. The actor is not used to sit in place and travels a lot, despite the fact that in France, in addition to the acting profession, is engaged in business for the production of olive oil.
Embed from getty imagesHe also writes small works for the theater and once performed as director-director in the Turin Opera House. It gives artist attention and charity. It helps to build a medical center in Paris to conduct research of brain disease.
From the hobby of the actor it is worth highlighting football. Renault is sick for the Inter team from Milan. In addition, Jean Reno is a big fan of the Creativity of King Rock and Roll Elvis Presley.
Jean Reno now
After a small break, Jean Reno is again ready for new accomplishments. Now in the work of the star 7 projects. One of them is a military drama "Waiting for Ani", where Renault will appear in the acting duet with Angelica Houston. In the film of British cinematographers, it will be about the inhabitants of a small French village, which are hiding from the fascists of several Jews. In 2019, the French thriller "Cold Blood Legacy" and the Spanish drama "4 Latas" are being prepared with the screen of the screen.
Embed from getty imagesIn early 2019, it became known that Jean Reno together with the shedvik bokesman and destruct Lindo will be included in the main acting drama "Da 5 Bloods" SPUCHI. In the film, we will talk about the veterans of the Vietnam War, which years of years return to the places of combat battles - in distant jungle. Here they will try to figure out their own problems and help combat comrade. It is also known that in a duet with Vincenom Kassel, Jean Reno will appear in the horror movie "Phantom", which will remove the director Christoph Hans.
Filmography
- 1985 - "Subway"
- 1990 - Nikita
- 1993 - "Aliens"
- 1994 - "Leon"
- 1996 - "Mission impossible"
- 1998 - "Godzilla"
- 1998 - "Ronin"
- 2000 - "Bagger Rivers"
- 2001 - "Vasabi"
- 2003 - "Unweight"
- 2006 - "Pink Panther"
- 2006 - "Da Vinci Code"
- 2009 - "Collector"
- 2016 - "Aliens 3: Revolution"
- 2017 - "Girl in the fog"