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Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

Birthday: 1955-03-04 | Place of Birth: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France

After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France. Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander. He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
L'Île aux 30 cercueils

as    Horacio

2022
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

as    Le détective privé

2021
Emma Bovary

as    Homais

2021
A Perfect Enemy

as    Jean Rosen

2019
I Love My Mum

as    French Restaurant Manager

2019
2019
Cyrano, My Love

as    Lucien

2019
Spread Your Wings

as    Pichon

2017
Somewhere Beautiful

as    Magazine Editor

2016
Max & Leon

as    Michel

2015
Soulless 2

as    Bernard

2015
The Price of Desire

as    Fernand Leger

2015
Cassandre

as    Jean-Pierre Marchand

2014
My Old Lady

as    Monsieur Lefebvre

2014
2009
Micmacs

as    Fracasse

2009
Murphy's Law

as    Rudy

2008
Dante 01

as    César

2008
When Evil Calls

as    Detective Ringwald

2008
The Oxford Murders

as    Frank

2007
Moon in a Bottle

as    Pascal Rossignol

2007
Crossed Tracks

as    Pierre Laclos / Louis

2006
Dikkenek

as    Stef

2005
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as    His Excellency's Fop

2004
Darkhunters

as    Charlie Jackson

2004
Hellbreeder

as    Detective Weiss

2004
A Very Long Engagement

as    Sylvain

2003
At Home with the Rozes

as    le lieutenant