MOVIE GOD on Instagram: "[🎬] Léon: The Professional Léon is a 1994 English-language French action released in the United States as The Professional originally and then as Léon: The Professional − written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno and Gary Oldman, and features the film debut of Natalie Portman. The plot centers on Léon (Reno), an Italian-American professional hitman who reluctantly takes in twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando (Portman) after her family is murdered by corrupt Drug