Dominique Pinon
- Acting
- March 4, 1955 · Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Violette
- Cassandre - Un ciel de plomb · Jean-Paul Marchand
- Cassandre - Ni vu, ni connu · Jean-Paul Marchand
- You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? · Edgar
- Cassandre - Les inconnus du Sapenay · Jean-Paul Marchand
- Cassandre - Les captives · Jean-Paul Marchand
- Cassandre - Un homme parfait · Jean-Paul Marchand
- Jean Valjean · Boîte à Mots
- She Loved Blossoms More · Logo
- Memoir of a Snail · Percy Pudel (Voice)
- At the End of the Day · Le médecin
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon · Antoine
- Apaches: Gang of Paris · Gueule de Bois
- Amélie: The Real Story · (archive footage)
- Good People · Roger
- A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon · Le détective privé
- Hamlet Within
- The Island of Thirty Coffins · Horacio
- Bigbug · Igor
- Emma Bovary · Homais
- Pierre & Jeanne · Le notaire
- A Perfect Enemy · Jean Rosen
- Dernière Station · Le pompiste
- Jo · L'Inspecteur Ducros
- Dark Stories to Survive the Night · Jean Luc
- Dark Stories · Jean-Luc Barrouf
- Spread Your Wings · Pichon
- I Love My Mum · French Restaurant Manager
- Anna · Monk Dominic
- Magnetick Pathways · Raymond Vachs
- Cyrano, My Love · Lucien
- O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
- White Fang · Beauty Smith (Voice)
- Based on a True Story · Raymond
- Two Snails Set Off · Voice
- Vive la crise ! · Noël
- Somewhere Beautiful · Magazine Editor
- La DorMeuse Duval · Basile Matrin
- Max & Leon · Michel
- Cassandre · Jean-Pierre Marchand
- A Love You · Serge
- The Price of Desire · Fernand Leger
- Soulless 2 · Bernard
- OXI, an Act of Resistance · Investigator
- Brèves de comptoir · Taxi 2
- My Old Lady · Monsieur Lefebvre
- Outlander · Master Raymond
- The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet · Two Clouds
- Murders in... · Le Kid
- Serial Teachers · L'inspecteur d'académie
- Metal Hurlant Chronicles · Stanley Summers
- La Guerre du Royal Palace · Colonel Otto Strudel
- The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm · L'inspecteur Lamentin
- Holidays by the Sea · Homme caravane
- Madame Sans Gêne · Fouché
- Crédit pour tous · Gobert
- Specky Four-Eyes · Narrator
- Un pied dans le crime
- What War May Bring · Maurice Lemoine
- Colère · Mougin, le sorcier
- Mumu · Père de Roger
- Murphy's Law · Rudy
- Micmacs · Fracasse
- Humans · Gildas
- Morris: A Life with Bells On · Jean Baptiste
- The Little Murders of Agatha Christie · Hubert Petitpont
- An Organization of Dreams · Inspector
- A Day at the Museum · Simon
- The Clown
- Fin de partie · Hamm
- The Oxford Murders · Frank
- Dante 01 · César
- Moon in a Bottle · Pascal Rossignol
- Midsummer Madness · Toni
- L'Acte inconnu
- Crossed Tracks · Pierre Laclos / Louis
- When Evil Calls · Detective Ringwald
- Dikkenek · Stef
- Sable noir · Axel
- Your Name is Justine · Oncle Goran