Biography
Jean Reno (born July 30, 1948) is a French actor of Andalusian Spanish descent. Working in French, English, and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat, but also in European productions such as the French films Les Visiteurs (1993) and Léon (1994) along with the 2005 Italian film The Tiger and the Snow.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le Marsupilami
2026
New feature film adaptation of the Belgian comic books.

Zootopia 2
2025
as (voice)
Detectives Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a mysterious reptile who arrives in Zootopia and turns the mammal metrop...

Pierre et le loup : Avec Jean Reno et Renaud Capuçon
2025
as Le récitant
For Peter and the Wolf, premiered in 1936, Prokofiev chose the form of a symphonic tale, featuring a narrator alongside the orchestra. A unique work i...

Family Pack
2024
as Gilbert Vassier
When an old card game comes to life, a family jumps back in time to a medieval village where they must unmask werewolves to secure their return home.

My Penguin Friend
2024
as Joao
A lost penguin rescued from an oil spill transforms the life of a heartbroken fisherman. They become unlikely friends, so bonded that even the vast oc...

Oldies But Goodies
2024
as Lorenzo
As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation ...

Lift
2024
as Lars Jorgensen
An international heist crew, led by Cyrus Whitaker, race to lift $500 million in gold from a passenger plane at 40,000 feet.

The Squad: Home Run
2023
as Serge Buren
Former Antigang legend Niels Cartier, known for his muscular and unconventional methods, left the force following an intervention that went wrong and ...

Die Hart
2023
as Claude Van De Velde
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie ...

Mon nom est Johnny
2021
as Himself
From New York to Los Angeles, a journey in the United States, in the footsteps of Johnny Hallyday, on tour in the country he has always admired. On th...

Promises
2021
as Grandpa
When Alexander and Laura meet during a party what they feel for each other is obvious, but she’s about to get married and Alexander shares a daughter ...

The Last Journey
2021
as Henri W.R
The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of its generation. But few hours be...

I Love You Coiffure
2020
as M. Rimbaud (segment "La Veste")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over t...

Rogue City
2020
as Ange Leonetti
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.

The Doorman
2020
as Victor Dubois
A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while s...

Da 5 Bloods
2020
as Desroche
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried tre...

Waiting for Anya
2020
as Henri
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from sou...

A Magical Journey
2019
as Screen Hologram
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the...

Cold Blood
2019
as Henry
A legendary but retired hit man lives in peace and isolation in the barren North American wilderness. When he rescues a woman from a snowmobiling acci...

4L
2019
as Jean Pierre
To find Joseba, a dying friend, and see him reunite with his daughter Ely, two old friends, Jean Pierre and Tocho, embark with her on a road trip thro...

The Girl in the Fog
2017
as Dr. Augusto Flores
A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of f...

The Adventurers
2017
as Pierre Bissette
The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French det...

The Last Face
2017
as Dr. Mehmet Love
Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.

Family Heist
2017
as Patrick
A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him.

The Promise
2016
as Admiral Fournet
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated ...

Las pequeñas cosas
2016
as Jean-Pierre Bertrand

The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
as Le comte Godefroy de Montmirail
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...

Brothers of the Wind
2015
as Danzer
The way of the eagle is to raise two chicks. The stronger is destined always to throw the weaker from the nest. Man also has his ways, often to hurt t...

The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul W.R
2015
as Henri W.R
The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the the most talented astronaut of his generation, the enigmatic Paul W.R. But a few h...

Antigang
2015
as Serge Buren
As a rowdy team of detectives clashes with their disciplined new boss, they must catch a vicious band of robbers who are wreaking havoc on their city.

Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
2015
as Self

Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
2014
as Hector Poilonez
At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits w...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Days and Nights
2014
as Louis
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek...

Paris Story
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Who has not dreamed of embracing the city of Paris from the sky? Fly and explore the exceptional places that have shaped and are shaping the history o...

Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
as Diego Baresco
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he ha...

My Summer in Provence
2014
as Paul
In the wake of their parent's separation, three siblings spend the summer in the south of France with their estranged Grandfather. In less than 24 hou...

The Day of the Crows
2012
as Le père Courge (voice)
In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring hi...

Alex Cross
2012
as Gilles Mercier
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fir...

The Dream Team
2012
as Lui-même
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.

Le Chef
2012
as Alexandre Lagarde
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a ...

You Don't Choose Your Family
2011
as Luix
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a de...

Margaret
2011
as Ramon Cameron
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people...

The Philosopher
2010
as Baggio
A man whose life has smiled, decides to leave everything. He abandoned his house, his car and offered astonished passers-by his possessions and his fr...

22 Bullets
2010
as Charly Matteï
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

The Round Up
2010
as Dr. David Sheinbaum
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

Armored
2009
as Quinn
A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with...

Couples Retreat
2009
as Marcel
Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want ...

La Traversée du désir
2009
as Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

Ultimate Heist
2009
as Milo Malakian
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules ...

The Pink Panther 2
2009
as Ponton
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign I...

Ca$h
2008
as Maxime - Dubreuil
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined,...

Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau...
2007
as Self (archive footage)

Flushed Away
2006
as Le Frog (voice)
London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Rat...

Flyboys
2006
as Capt. Thenault
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became th...

The Da Vinci Code
2006
as Captain Bezu Fache
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. ...

The Pink Panther
2006
as Ponton
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the di...

The Tiger and the Snow
2005
as Fuad
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittor...

Empire of the Wolves
2005
as Jean-Louis Schiffer
When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the exper...
10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back
2005
as Himself - 'Leon'
The cast and crew reflect back on the making of the film Léon - The Professional (1994).A series of interviews with people in different places, all of...
Jean Reno: The Road to 'Léon'
2005
as Himself
Jean Reno discusses his career and his role in the film Léon: The Professional (1994).

Les Visiteurs revisités
2005
as Self

Hotel Rwanda
2004
as Sabena Airlines President, Mr. Tillens
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnot...

Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin."

The Corsican File
2004
as Ange Léoni
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most d...

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
as Commissaire Pierre Niémans
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA...

Ruby & Quentin
2003
as Ruby
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a so...

Jet Lag
2002
as Félix
At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. L...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

Rollerball
2002
as Alexi Petrovich
In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marc...

Les Rivières pourpres: L'enquête
2001
as Self
Behind the scenes of Mathieu Kassovitz's 'The Crimson Rivers'

Making of "la scène au scalpel"
2001
as Self
The team behind 'The Crimson Rivers' explains how the autopsy scene was assembled.

Wasabi
2001
as Hubert Fiorentini
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working metho...

Just Visiting
2001
as Thibault
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and t...

The Crimson Rivers
2000
as Pierre Niemans
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by ...

Ronin
1998
as Vincent
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembl...

Godzilla
1998
as Philippe Roaché
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
as Comte Godefroy de Montmirail
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...

Les Sœurs Soleil
1997
as Un spectateur
This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie c...

A Witch's Way of Love
1997
as Molok
Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a special as...

Roseanna's Grave
1997
as Marcello
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery ...

Jaguar
1996
as Jean Campana
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-...

Mission: Impossible
1996
as Krieger
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated...

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
1996

Beyond the Clouds
1995
as Carlo
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
as Self (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by...

French Kiss
1995
as Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon
After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris ...

Boxer
1995
as Patrick
Patrick, a not so successful boxer, meets Nathaniel - and adventures started.

Léon: The Professional
1994
as Léon Montana
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA ag...
The Screw
1993
as Monsieur K
Mr. K is a do-it-yourselfer and he works very seriously. One day he has a problem with one of his screws. Furious, he decides to complain at the admin...

Flight from Justice
1993
as Charlie Bert
An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling.

The Visitors
1993
as Comte Godefroy de Montmirail
After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with...

Paranoïa
1993

Loulou graffiti
1992
as Pique la Lune
A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he ...

L'Opération Corned Beef
1991
as Capitaine Philippe Boulier, dit "Le Squale"
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.

L'homme au masque d'or
1991
as Don Gaetano
In San Luis de la Paz, a small and and very poor town in northern Mexico, the priest Father Victorio manages an orphanage with nearly 50 children. He ...

Au coeur de Nikita
1990
as Self
A documentary that captures some moments on set of filming of Luc Besson's "Nikita".

La Femme Nikita
1990
as Victor, the "cleaner"
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by ...

The Big Blue
1988
as Enzo Molinari
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, ...

I Love You
1986
as Dentist
In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as Mic...

Zone Red
1986
as Leccia
Claire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the ...

Strictement personnel
1985
as Le détective Villechaize
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...

Subway
1985
as Le Batteur
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen so...

The Telephone Always Rings Twice
1985
as L'homme de confiance de Marraine
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "te...

Our Story
1984
as A neighbour
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Don...

Outward Signs of Wealth
1983
as Marc Letellier, Béatrice's colleague
Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society an...

The Last Battle
1983
as The Brute
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identi...
Bloody Ballad
1983
Restless day and night of a bourgeois family man (Michel Aumont), humiliated father and cheated husband.

The Passerby
1982
as Antisemite
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an...

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
1981
as le lieutenant Zag
Five young conscripts lead a peaceful life in the barracks of a small town. Their officer is an eccentric man who lets them spend their time listening...

We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
1981
as Le serveur restaurant chic (uncredited)
A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.

The Penultimate
1981
as La Brute
A man wanders through a wrecked, dystopian city, finding violence everywhere he turns.

Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ?
1980
as Bernier
Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies.

Womanlight
1979
as Cop Place de la Concorde
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
1978
as Character of Paintings
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensi...
Birds of Prey
N/A
An impoverished young Russian woman is drawn into Putin's crusade to re-fight the Cold War and thrives as a high-level "swallow" spy in Washington, un...
The Man Who Saved Paris
N/A
as Trenet
The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city's image (City of Love, Romance, Light) afte...
Verona Spies
N/A
as Crowley
Verona, a lovable hot mess, is hired as an escort/assassin through a case of mistaken identity. Her mission: to seduce a pharmaceutical executive and ...
Tuner
N/A
A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking ...

The Florist
N/A
as Charlie
A quiet horticulturalist harboring a secret life as a lethal assassin finds his true identity jeopardized when he forms an unlikely friendship with a ...
The Butler
N/A
as Felix Dubois
When mobsters rob a mansion to settle unpaid debts, they find themselves facing an extremely dangerous retired WWI Commando — trying to live a peacefu...