Pierre Coffin

Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born November 1, 1967) is a French animator and director. He co-directs the Despicable Me series with Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. He is also the primary voice actor of the Minions and the museum director from Despicable Me 3. 
== History ==
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. 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 Steve Spielberg-executive produced We’re Back! A Dinosaur 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.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Voice role 	Notes
1993	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story	No 	No 	No 	No 	 	Inbewtween artist
2003	Gary's Day 	Yes 	No 	No 	 	 	
2010	Despicable Me 	Yes 	No 	No 	Yes 	Tim the Minion, Bob the Minion, Mark the Minion, Phil the Minion, Stuart the Minion 	
2010	Home Makeover 	Yes 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	 	Short film included on Despicable Me DVD and Blu-ray
2010	Orientation Day 	Yes 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	 	Short film included on Despicable Me DVD and Blu-ray
2010	Banana 	Yes 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	 	Short film included on Despicable Me DVD and Blu-ray
2011	Brad & Gary 	Yes 	No 	No 	Yes 	Brad 	Short film
2013	Despicable Me 2 	Yes 	No 	No 	Yes 	Kevin the Minion, Bob the Minion, Stuart the Minion, Additional Minions, Evil Minions	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Nominated - Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2015	Minions 	Yes 	No 	No 	Yes 	Kevin the Minion, Bob the Minion, Stuart the Minion, The Minions 	Nominated - Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2017	Despicable Me 3 	Yes 	No 	No 	Yes 	Mel, The Minions and Museum Director 	
2021	Minions: The Rise of Gru 	No 	No 	No 	Yes 	The Minions 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2004-2010	Pat & Stan	Yes 	No 	No 	Creator
== Trivia ==
* Pierre Coffin is actually a French-Indonesian. His father is a French diplomat and his mother is an Indonesian writer.
* Coffin lent his voice to all 899 minions in the film, including Kevin, Bob, Stuart, Mel, the Evil Minions and other additional minions.
*Pat & Stan is the only television show created by Coffin.