Luc Besson Parents: Who are Claud Besson and Danièle Plane?

Claud Besson and Danièle Planeare the parents of popular French film director, Luc Besson. They both worked as Club Med Scuba-diving instructors.

According to sources, he spent most of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece. They returned to France when he was 10 years old.

Besson once shared that he was 17 years old when he had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.

“I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do. … So I took a piece of paper and on the left I put everything I could do, or had skills for, and all the things I couldn’t do. The first line was shorter and I could see that I loved writing, I loved images, I was taking a lot of pictures. So I thought maybe movies would be good. But I thought that to really know I should go to a set. And a friend of mine knew a guy whose brother was a third assistant on a short film. It’s true. So, I said: ‘OK, let’s go on the set.’ So I went on the set…The day after I went back to see my mum and told her that I was going to make films and stop school and ‘bye. And I did it! Very soon after I made a short film and it was very, very bad. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do on,” he said during an interview in 2000.