Luc Besson

About Luc Besson

Luc Besson is a French filmmaker, producer and screenwriter whose career has ranged from stylized 1980s French cinema to large-scale international action and science-fiction films. Born Luc Paul Maurice Besson in Paris on 18 March 1959, he grew up around travel and the sea: his parents worked as scuba-diving instructors, and early accounts of his life often note that he first imagined a career connected to marine…