# Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon (born 4 March 1955) is a French actor. He is known for appearing in films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, often playing eccentric or grotesque characters.

## Early life and education

Dominique Pinon was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France on 4 March 1955. After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris and enrolled at the Cours Simon.

## Career

A prolific screen and theatre actor with many tens of titles to his credit, Pinon has appeared most predominantly in French films, but also in works produced and shot in England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the United States.

### In film

In 1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix gave Pinon his start in cinema with the movie Diva; Pinon also acted in two later Beineix films. He has had several roles in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He has appeared in three films by British horror director Johannes Roberts. Pinon appeared in The Bridge of San Luis Rey (in French, Le Pont du roi Saint-Louis). Adapted from a short work by Thornton Wilder by the Irish director Mary McGuckian, Pinon acted in this period piece, which was poorly reviewed and had an ensemble cast (including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Gabriel Byrne, Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham, and Geraldine Chaplin). He appeared in Álex de la Iglesia's 2008 The Oxford Murders with Elijah Wood, John Hurt, and Leonor Watling.

### In theater

In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, and Valère Novarina.

## Awards and recognition

Pinon received the Molière Award for Best Actor in 2004. In 2011, he was the president of the jury for the second Festival International du Film fantastique d'Audincourt. He has been an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres since 2014.

## Works
### On stage

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1985 | Une station service | Gildas Bourdet | Gildas Bourdet | |
| 1988 | L'Inconvenant | Gildas Bourdet | Gildas Bourdet | |
| 1990–91 | L'Été | Romain Weingarten | Gildas Bourdet | |
| 1993 | Maison d'arrêt | Edward Bond | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 1994 | Love in the Crimea | Sławomir Mrożek | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 1995 | The Death of Auguste | Romain Weingarten | Gildas Bourdet | |
| 1996 | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems | Michael Ondaatje | Frank Hoffmann | |
| 1997–98 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 1999 | Pour Louis de Funès | Valère Novarina | Renaud Cojo | |
| 2000 | L'Origine rouge | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| 2000 | Mein Kampf (farce) | George Tabori | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 2001 | L'Ombre de Venceslao | Copi | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 2002 | L'Origine rouge | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| 2002 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Yannis Kokkos | |
| 2003 | L'Incroyable Voyage | Gilles Granouillet | Philippe Adrien | |
| 2003 | Providence Café | Mohamed Rouabhi | Mohamed Rouabhi | |
| 2003–04 | La Scène | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| 2004–05 | L'Hiver sous la table | Roland Topor | Zabou Breitman | Molière Award for Best Actor |
| 2005 | L'Âge d'or | Maurice Desvallières, Georges Feydeau & Louis Varney | Claudia Stavisky | |
| 2006 | Arnaques, cocaïne et bricolage | Mohamed Rouabhi | Clotilde Moynot | |
| 2007 | L'Acte inconnu | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| 2007–08 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Laurent Fréchuret | |
| 2008–09 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Charles Berling | |
| 2009 | Le Tribun | Mauricio Kagel | Charles Tordjman | |
| 2010 | On purge bébé & Léonie est en avance | Georges Feydeau | Gildas Bourdet | |
| 2010 | Pour Louis de Funès | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| 2010–11 | Un pied dans le crime | Eugène Marin Labiche | Jean-Louis Benoît | |
| 2011 | Madame Sans-Gêne | Victorien Sardou & Émile Moreau | Alain Sachs | |
| 2011–12 | The Lonesome West | Martin McDonagh | Ladislas Chollat | |
| 2012 | Hollywood | Ron Hutchinson | Daniel Colas | |
| 2012 | All That Fall | Samuel Beckett | Jacques Nichet | |
| 2012 | Schopenhauer, lettres à son disciple | | | |
| 2013 | The Madwoman of Chaillot | Jean Giraudoux | Didier Long | |
| 2013 | Résumons-nous, la semaine a été désastreuse | Alexandre Vialatte | Charles Tordjman | |
| 2012–14 | Address Unknown | Kathrine Taylor | Delphine de Malherbe | |
| 2014 | Richard III | William Shakespeare | Laurent Fréchuret | |
| 2014 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Christophe Lidon | |
| 2015 | Les Lois de la gravité | Jean Teulé | Anne Bourgeois | |

### Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1980 | La découverte | The young painter | Arthur Joffé | Short |
| 1981 | Diva | "The Priest" | Jean-Jacques Beineix | |
| 1981 | Une pierre, un arbre, un nuage | | Christine van de Putte | Short |
| 1981 | Samantha | Loulou | Victor Vicas | TV movie |
| 1981 | Julien Fontanes, magistrat | | François Dupont-Midi | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 1982 | The Return of Martin Guerre | Antoine | Daniel Vigne | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 1982 | Tir groupé | Daniel Verlot | Jean-Claude Missiaen | |
| 1982 | Merlin ou le cours de l'or | The son | Arthur Joffé (2) | Short |
| 1982 | Il est trop tard pour rien | | Pierre Novion | Short |
| 1982 | Le village sur la colline | Renaud | Yves Laumet | TV Miniseries |
| 1983 | Ghost Dance | Salesman | Ken McMullen | |
| 1983 | Moon in the Gutter | Frank | Jean-Jacques Beineix (2) | |
| 1983 | Si j'avais mille ans | | Monique Enckell | |
| 1983 | Le cimetière des voitures | Ybar | Fernando Arrabal | TV movie |
| 1983 | Merci Sylvestre | Ballu | Serge Korber | TV series (6 Episodes) |
| 1984 | Le thé à la menthe | Roger | Abdelkrim Bahloul | |
| 1984 | Nemo | Monkey | Arnaud Sélignac | |
| 1984 | Mon inconnue | | Philippe Harel | Short |
| 1985 | Partir, revenir | A villager | Claude Lelouch | |
| 1985 | Zina | Pierre | Ken McMullen (2) | |
| 1985 | Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!! | Professor Pichon | Jean-Pierre Vergne | |
| 1985 | La baston | Marcel Noblet | Jean-Claude Missiaen (2) | |
| 1985 | Quiz | | Jérôme George | Short |
| 1985 | Cyril Tourneur | | Jean-Pierre Gras | Short |
| 1985 | Via Mala | Niklaus Lauretz | Tom Toelle | TV Miniseries |
| 1986 | Betty Blue | The drug dealer | Jean-Jacques Beineix (3) | |
| 1986 | Sauve-toi, Lola | Jean-Pierre | Michel Drach | |
| 1986 | Suivez mon regard | Frédéric | Jean Curtelin | |
| 1986 | Cent francs l'amour | Tom | Jacques Richard | |
| 1986 | Rückfahrt in den Tod | Fred | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | TV movie |
| 1987 | Devil's Paradise [de] | Gato | Vadim Glowna | |
| 1987 | La voix du désert | | Jean-Michel Roux | Short |
| 1987 | Chamane | | Thomas Gilou | Short |
| 1988 | Frantic | Wino | Roman Polanski | |
| 1988 | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Woitech | Ermanno Olmi | |
| 1988 | Anaon | | François-Renaud Labarthe | Short |
| 1988 | La mort mystérieuse de Nina Chéreau | Albert | Dennis Berry | TV movie |
| 1989 | La Révolution française | Jean-Baptiste Drouet | Robert Enrico | |
| 1989 | Foutaises | The Man | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Short |
| 1989 | Trouble | | Yannick Saillet | Short |
| 1989 | Paris mirage | Avati | Yves Laumet (2) | TV movie |
| 1989 | Série noire | Chanier | Laurent Heynemann | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 1990 | 1871 | Napoleon III | Ken McMullen (3) | |
| 1990 | Alberto Express | The driver | Arthur Joffé (3) | |
| 1990 | Bleu marine | Charles | Jean-Claude Riga | |
| 1990 | La mandragore | | Aziz Lamzouris | Short |
| 1991 | Delicatessen | Louison | Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2) | Sitges Film Festival - Best Actor |
| 1991 | Les arcandiers | Bruno | Manuel Sanchez | |
| 1991 | Août | Eugène Blouzette | Henri Herré | |
| 1991 | 25 décembre 58, 10h36 | | Diane Bertrand | Short |
| 1991 | L'illuminé | | Philippe Barcouzareaud | Short |
| 1991 | Le roi Mystère | Cassecou | Paul Planchon | TV Mini-Series |
| 1992 | Mémento | | Jean-Max Peteau | Short |
| 1992 | 'R': Rembrandt | | Ken McMullen (4) | TV Short |
| 1993 | La cavale des fous | Angel | Marco Pico | |
| 1993 | Je m'appelle Victor | Bernard | Guy Jacques | |
| 1993 | Stella plage | | Elisabeth Prouvost | Short |
| 1993 | Ma petite Mimi | René | Roger Kahane | TV movie |
| 1994 | KO Kid | | Marc Caro (2) | Short |
| 1995 | The City of Lost Children | The diver / the clones | Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet (3) | |
| 1996 | A Saturday on Earth | Morel | Diane Bertrand (2) | |
| 1996 | La gotera | | Grojo & Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | Short |
| 1997 | Alien Resurrection | Dom Vriess | Jean-Pierre Jeunet (4) | |
| 1997 | Mordbüro | Eugène | Lionel Kopp | |
| 1997 | Violetta la reine de la moto | Adrien | Guy Jacques (2) | |
| 1997 | Photomaton | | Philippe Dorison | Short |
| 1999 | Quasimodo d'El Paris | Clopin Trouillefou | Patrick Timsit | |
| 1999 | Comme un poisson hors de l'eau | Melvin | Hervé Hadmar | |
| 1999 | Djedi | | Lionel Escama | Short |
| 2000 | Sur un air d'autoroute | Jacky Carpe | Thierry Boscheron | |
| 2000 | Sabotage! | Armani | Esteban Ibarretxe & Jose Miguel Ibarretxe | |
| 2000 | Der Pilot | Pilot | Oliver Seiter | Short |
| 2000 | Vestiaire obligatoire | M. Muk | Bertrand Stephant Andrews | Short |
| 2001 | Beautiful Memories | Robert | Zabou Breitman | |
| 2001 | Amélie | Joseph | Jean-Pierre Jeunet (5) | |
| 2001 | Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! | | Abel Ferry | Short |
| 2002 | Alice | | James Eaves & Johannes Roberts | |
| 2002 | Dead or Alive | The Butcher | Paulo Machline | Short |
| 2002 | Lilith | | Fabien Martorell | Short |
| 2003 | Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure | Fredy Mazas | Javier Fesser | |
| 2003 | Bienvenue chez les Rozes | Lieutenant | Francis Palluau | |
| 2003 | Parts of the Family | Television's woman | Léon Paul De Bruyn | |
| 2003 | Europa | Schmidt & Smith | Carlo Avventi & Christophe Bruncher | Short |
| 2003 | From Another Point of View | Henri | Ken Duken & Bernd Katzmarczyk | Short |
| 2003 | Entrusted | Henri Lafont | Giacomo Battiato | TV movie |
| 2003 | Petits mythes urbains | The Butcher | Stéphane Gateau & Paulo Machline (2) | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2004 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | His Excellency's Fop | Mary McGuckian | |
| 2004 | Hellbreeder | Detective Weiss | James Eaves & Johannes Roberts (2) | |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | Sylvain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet (6) | |
| 2004 | Darkhunters | Charlie Jackson | Johannes Roberts (3) | |
| 2004 | Ne quittez pas! | The homeless | Arthur Joffé (4) | |
| 2004 | Kurz - Der Film | | Bernhard Haux, Oliver Seiter (2), ... | |
| 2004 | Lift | Otis | Hugues Dalton & Jeff Garton | Short |
| 2004 | Le bon, la brute et les zombies | Little Cowboy | Abel Ferry (2) | Short |
| 2004 | Caméra Café | Jean-Pierre | Francis Duquet | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2005 | Your Name Is Justine | Uncle Goran | Franco de Peña | |
| 2005 | L'hiver sous la table | Dragomir | Zabou Breitman (2) | |
| 2005 | Camping à la ferme | Rodolphe | Jean-Pierre Sinapi | |
| 2005 | Ze film | The homeless | Guy Jacques (3) | |
| 2006 | Dikkenek | Stef | Olivier Van Hoofstadt | |
| 2006 | Busker | The Mime | David Wigram | Short |
| 2006 | When Evil Calls | Detective Ringwald | Johannes Roberts (4) | TV Miniseries |
| 2006 | Sable noir | Axel | Harry Cleven | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2006 | Nachtschicht [de] | Emile Gaspard | Lars Becker | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2007 | Roman de Gare | Pierre Laclos | Claude Lelouch (2) | |
| 2007 | Midsummer Madness | Toni | Alexander Hahn | Nominated - Latvian National Film Festival - Best Supporting Actor |
| 2007 | La luna en botella | Pascal Rossignol | Grojo (2) | |
| 2007 | La praline | 511 | Jean-Baptiste Chuat | Short |
| 2007 | L'acte inconnu | | Dominique Thiel | TV movie |
| 2008 | The Oxford Murders | Frank | Álex de la Iglesia | |
| 2008 | Musée haut, musée bas | Simon | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2008 | Dante 01 | César | Marc Caro (4) | |
| 2008 | Le Queloune | | Patrick Boivin | Short |
| 2008 | Seared | The Butcher | James Nicholas Fuller | Short |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Jean Baptiste | Lucy Akhurst | |
| 2009 | Micmacs | Fracasse | Jean-Pierre Jeunet (7) | |
| 2009 | Humains | Gildas | Jacques-Olivier Molon & Pierre-Olivier Thevenin | |
| 2009 | An Organization of Dreams | Inspector | Ken McMullen (5) | |
| 2009 | La loi de Murphy | Rudy | Christophe Campos | |
| 2009 | Histoire trouble | Voice | Jérôme Lefdup | |
| 2009 | L'eau vive | Yann | Arthur Joffé (5) | TV Short |
| 2010 | What War May Bring | Maurice Lemoine | Claude Lelouch (3) | |
| 2010 | Mumu | Roger's father | Joël Séria | |
| 2010 | Cul de Bouteille | Narrator | Jean-Claude Rozec | Short |
| 2010 | Domino(S) | Matteo | Charles Poupot | Short |
| 2010 | Colère | Mougin | Jean-Pierre Mocky | TV movie |
| 2010 | Paradisiaque | DomJik | Igor Pejic | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2010 | Au siècle de Maupassant | Dubenoit | Jacques Santamaria | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2011 | Holidays by the Sea | The caravan's man | Pascal Rabaté | |
| 2011 | Crédit pour tous | Gobert | Jean-Pierre Mocky (2) | |
| 2011 | L'orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins | Inspector Lamentin | Jacques Richard (2) | |
| 2011 | Poupée chagrin | | Marion Barthès | Short |
| 2011 | Un pied dans le crime | Gaudiband | Dominique Thiel (2) | TV movie |
| 2012 | La balle de trop | Jeff | Sébastien Chaplais & Mehdi Mostefaï | Short |
| 2012 | Les parapluies migrateurs | Jean-Pierre | Melanie Laleu | Short |
| 2012 | La guerre du Royal Palace | Colonel Otto Strudel | Claude-Michel Rome | TV movie |
| 2012 | Le Romancier Martin | | Jérôme Foulon | TV Miniseries |
| 2012 | Foot Lose | Mr. Lopez | Charles Meurisse | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2012 | Le sang de la vigne | Milou Savin | Aruna Villiers | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2013 | Serial Teachers | The school inspector | Pierre-François Martin-Laval | |
| 2013 | The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet | Two Clouds | Jean-Pierre Jeunet (8) | |
| 2013 | Suzanne | Jean | Wilfried Méance | Short |
| 2013 | Myster Mocky présente | Various | Jean-Pierre Mocky (3) | TV series (3 Episodes) |
| 2014 | My Old Lady | Auguste Lefebvre | Israel Horovitz | |
| 2014 | Brèves de comptoir | Taxi driver | Jean-Michel Ribes (2) | |
| 2014 | Somewhere Beautiful | Magazine Editor | Albert Kodagolian | |
| 2014 | Ferdinand Knapp | Ferdinand Knapp | Andrea Baldini | Short VideoMaker Film Festival - Best Actor |
| 2014 | Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie | Hubert Petitpont | Marc Angelo | TV series (1 Episode) |
| 2014 | Métal Hurlant Chronicles | Stanley Summers | Guillaume Lubrano | TV series (3 Episodes) |
| 2015 | Soulless 2 | Bernard | Roman Prygunov | |
| 2015 | The Price of Desire | Fernand Leger | Mary McGuckian (2) | |
| 2015 | A Love You | Serge | Paul Lefèvre | |
| 2015–present | Cassandre | Jean-Paul Marchand | Eric Duret, Éric Le Roux & Bruno Garcia | TV series (4 Episodes) |
| 2016 | La folle histoire de Max et Léon | Michel | Jonathan Barré | |
| 2016 | Outlander | Master Raymond | Metin Hüseyin & Douglas Mackinnon | TV series (5 Episodes) Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Guest Performance on a Television Series |
| 2017 | Based on a True Story | | Roman Polanski (2) | |
| 2017 | La Dormeuse Duval | Basile Matrin | Manuel Sanchez (2) | |
| 2017 | Vive la crise | Noël | Jean-François Davy | |
| 2017 | Two Snails Set Off | | Romain Segaud & Jean-Pierre Jeunet (9) | Short |
| 2017 | Trois aveugles | Yoni | Félix Lantieri | Short |
| 2018 | Caminhos Magnéticos | | Edgar Pêra | |
| 2018 | Go West ! | Maslo | Alexander Hahn (2) | |
| 2022 | Good People | Roger Rabet | Stéphane Bergmans, Matthieu Donck, Benjamin d'Aoust | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 2023 | The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon | Antoine | Tim Southam | TV Series (2 Episodes) |
| 2024 | Memoir of a Snail | Percy Pudel | Adam Elliot | Voice role |
| 2024 | She Loved Blossoms More | Logo | Yannis Veslemes | |