Originally Posted By: Nowhereman
Just a shame Jean Reno isnt actually French!


I suppose it depends on how you define French:
  • A French actor of Spanish-Moroccan descent, Jean Reno (pronounced Ruh-No) broke through into the American market with a heralded performance as an illiterate mob executioner who finds his soul saving the life of a teen-age girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by rogue DEA agents in "The Professional" (1994). The film also marked the English-language debut of screenwriter-director Luc Besson, with whom Reno has frequently collaborated.

    The son of Andalusian parents, the actor was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Morocco, which was then under French territorial control, and remained there with his family until 1960 when they relocated to France.


But I'll defer to your innate knowledge of European colonism and nationalism, given your own status as Euro-trash. ;\)