Pierre Coffin

Pierre Coffin (born March 15, 1967 in France) is a voice actor, known for his role as Minions and the director in the entire Despicable Me franchise and as well as the creator of Pat & Stan. He is the son of Yves and Nh. Dini. 
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year 	Role 	Movie 	Notes
2014 	The Minions 	Earth of the Ponies 	Director
2016 	Kevin, Bob, Stuart, The Minions	Minions Smurfs 	
2023 	Minions 	Despicable Me 4 	Also Director
2021 (re-released film)	Kevin, Bob, Stuart, and Minions	Despicable Me 	
2023 	Director, Storyboarder 	Brad & Gary 	
2023 	Woody Woodpecker 	Woody Woodpecker (Illumination film)	
=== Television ===
Year	Role 	Show 	Notes
2016	Kevin, Bob, Stuart, The Minions 	Minions: The Series 	
2017	Kevin, Bob, and Stuart 	The Gru Girls 	
2018	The Minions (along with Chris Renaud)	Despicable Me (TV series) 	
2015	The Minions 	Minions 	
2019	The Minions 	The Gru Show 	
2024	The Minions 	SpongeBob's Crossover Misadventure	
2024	The Minions 	The Hardest Grand Finale Indeed! 	
=== Video Games ===
Year	Role 	Game 	Notes
2015	Kevin, Bob, Stuart, The Minions	Minions	
== Biography ==
Coffin was born in France to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini, an Indonesian novelist. He was trained at the Gobelins animation school in Paris and started to work at Amblin, the 2D London-based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg-executive-produced We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as an animator and eventually animation supervisor. 
Pierre Coffin's directorial career began with a short named Pings in 1997. He then started to collaborate by doing commercials with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff. He created the characters Pat & Stan for the titular TF1 TV series. In 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal.
Coffin directed Despicable Me (2010) and Despicable Me 2 (2013), with Renaud, Despicable Me 3 (2017) and the Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015) with Kyle Balda. He also produced the 2023 Brad & Gary film. Also best known for Minions: The Series and the 2015 Minions cartoon.
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