9 best roles of Jean Reno

French actor Jean Reno July 30 celebrates the anniversary - 65 years. By this time, Renault managed to play more than one hundred films and directors gladly give him a completely different role, but for the most part see it as an assassin or a cop (policeman, detective). On the birthday of the actor, we remember his best films.

9 best roles Jean Reno

1) "Underground", 1985, dir. Luc Besson

Young Reno plays in one of the first films Besson cameo - drummer in the underground band. "Nikita", "Leon" and other paintings still ahead.

2) "Nikita", 1990, dir. Luc Besson.

Reno plays a role around which then will be charged a separate picture - assassin Leon tasked to "eliminate mistakes" during one of failed Nikita (Anne Parillaud) tasks.

3) "Leon", 1994, dir. Luc Besson.

The painting, which became the key to Reno. Here he plays the role of that "cleaning" Leon of "Nikita." A cold-blooded killer meets a 12-year-old girl Mathilda (Natalie Portman) after her family killed. Matilda asks Leon to teach her skills murder, while she herself helps killer to learn to read and write in English (the hero Reno - Italian). Girl wants to take revenge on the murderers of his parents Leon and involuntarily becomes her mentor and assistant.





4) "Godzilla", 1998, dir. Roland Emmerich

In the American blockbuster disaster-Reno plays the French police, who, along with colleagues from the United States must save America and the rest of the planet from the invasion of reviving the dinosaurs. Can not heroes is only partly.

5) "Crimson Rivers", 2000, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz and "Crimson Rivers 2", 2004, dir. Olivier Dahan.

The film, which becomes a detective Reno - line, which then will be used for a long time directors to work with him. Detective Pierre Niemann investigates the brutal ritual murders. In the first scene of the film became a campus Gernon in the French Alps. In the second - a detective must solve the mystery of the monastic order in central France.



6) "Wasabi", 2001, dir. Gerard Kravichk

Again detective - but this time Hubert Fiorentini, methods which often cause doubt his superiors. Arriving in Japan for the funeral of the only woman he loved in his life, Hubert discovers that he has a daughter Yumi (Ryoko Hirosue). The girl who is about to celebrate its 20 years, the mother left a legacy of $ 200 million. For money hunts Yakuza gang leader. Detective Hubert nothing to do but to settle the problems.

7) "Love Story", 2002, dir. Danielle Thompson.

Reno plays chef Felix. Stuck in a Paris airport during the strike, Felix meets beautician Rose (Juliette Binoche). One night, that they are destined to be together, forever changing the lives of both.

8) "The Pink Panther", 2006, dir. Shawn Levy and "Pink Panther 2", 2009, dir. Harald Tsvat.

And here again, Reno plays the gendarme Gilbert Ponton - assistant and driver Inspector Jacques Clusaz (Steve Martin). Together they search for the stolen diamond "Pink Panther."

9) "The Da Vinci Code", 2006, dir. Ron Howard.

In the film adaptation of the bestselling detective Reno again given the role of a police officer tasked to conduct a murder case curator of the Louvre. It was he who invites Professor Langdon (Tom Hanks) on the scene of the crime; Professor with her granddaughter killed unraveling the mysteries of the world's history, their actions shed light on the murder, which turned out to be not at all random.



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