Dominique Pinon Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality French
Birth March 4, 1955 (Saumur – France)

BIOGRAPHY
After graduating from college, Dominique Pinon chose to become an actor. In Paris, he enrolled in the Simon course, then met Arthur Joffe , who made his debut in 1980 in his first short film, La Découverte .

Noticed by casting director Dominique Besnehard , who introduced him to Jean-Jacques Beineix , Dominique Pinon obtained his first film role in Diva (1981), where he played a cynical killer with a shaved head. This label as a marginal and offbeat character will stick to him for a long time and his cinematic “face” and his atypical physique will confine him to supporting roles for a few years. The alcoholic brother of Gérard Depardieu in The Moon in the Gutter , where he meets Beineix , he plays a killer in Tir grouped , a coward in Le Thé à la menthe , a tramp in The Legend of the Saint Drinker and a vagabond in Frantic .

In 1983, Dominique Pinon was nominated for a César for Best Young Actor for The Return of Martin Guerre , where he played a somewhat obtuse peasant, but it was in 1991 that his film career really took off with Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean -Pierre Jeunet : he plays the main role, a lunar character in love with Marie-Laure Dougnac . From then on, very popular, he distinguished himself in Les Arcandiers and Je m’appelle Victor , then played a young psychotic in La Cavale des fous .

In 1995, Dominique Pinon headlined again with Caro and Jeunet ‘s second film , The City of Lost Children . He plays no less than five roles: four brothers, perfect clones, and their progenitor, a diver, ex-mad scientist turned amnesiac, confined at the bottom of a port. Two years later, he continued his collaboration with Jeunet in Alien, la resurrection , opposite Sigourney Weaver .

During the years 1990-2000, he moved easily from drama ( Remembering beautiful things ) to comedy ( Quasimodo d’el Paris , Bienvenue chez les Rozes , Musée haute, musée bas ), from detective ( Crimes in Oxford , Roman de station ) to ungloved films ( Dikkenek ) and intimate films ( Dante 01 ,Humans ) to choral films ( Ces amours-là ). But it is still with Jean-Pierre Jeunet that he is most at ease, since he is present in the credits of the director’s greatest successes ( Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain , Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles and Micmacs at tire-larigot ).

A versatile actor, Dominique Pinon plays on all fronts. Outside of cinema, he is very present in the theater and won the Molière for Best Actor in 2004. He also works for television ( In the Century of Maupassant: Tales and News of the 19th Century , Colère , etc.) and appears in numerous short films ( Paradisiac , L’eau vive ).

In 2011, after a few years spent playing supporting roles, he starred in two films: Neither for sale nor for rent , a comedy by Pascal Rabaté , and Crédit pour tous , directed by one of his favorite directors, Jean-Pierre Mocky .