Renny Harlin (born Lauri Mauritz Harjola; March 15, 1959) is a Finnish American film director and producer, mostly known for action movies.

Biography

Early life

Renny Harlin was born in Riihimäki, Finland to a nurse mother and a physician father.Renny Harlin Biography (1959-) His mother often took him to see films at the cinema as a child, particularly those of Alfred Hitchcock, and he became enamored with the movies often citing Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969) as one of his favourites. Harlin had a video camera from a very early age and made his first short at the age of 12. At the age of 14 he decided to became a film director after he saw Don Siegel and Charles Bronson in Helsinki for the filming of Telefon (1977).