Personal Info
Birth date
1955-03-04 (70 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also known as
Доминик Пиньон
دومینیک پینان
Dominique Pinon
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.
Filmography
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
8.1
Overview:
Daryl washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.Outlander
8.2
Overview:
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.Caméra Café
6.8
Overview:
The coffee machine of a small company is the scene of discussions between employees. Private life, professional life, gossip, mockery, ... everything goes!Memoir of a Snail
8.074
Overview:
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.Murders in...
7.5
Overview:
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
7.4
Overview:
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.Amélie
7.913
Overview:
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?Alien Resurrection
6.16
Overview:
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.At Home with the Rozes
5.4
Overview:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...A Day at the Museum
4.5
Overview:
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.Max & Leon
6.3
Overview:
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild adventures.The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5.1
Overview:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.Colère
NYR
Overview:
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal.Enigma
5.6
Overview:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.Loonies at Large
6
Overview:
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.When Evil Calls
2.6
Overview:
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students of Wilburn High School their wildest desires.Humans
4.243
Overview:
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on human evolution. The trip, however, turns into a deadly fight for survival when the team crash into a gully and find themselves falling prey to someone...or something.The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
6.851
Overview:
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.Ne quittez pas !
6.5
Overview:
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.The City of Lost Children
7.2
Overview:
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.A Perfect Enemy
6.355
Overview:
Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and after they part ways at the airport entrance, he misses his flight. As he settles in the lounge, he encounters the mysterious young Texel again, who insists on telling her strange story — and the conversation grows stranger and more twisted until it turns sinister and deadly.Hamlet Within
NYR
Overview:
A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare's creature; his origins and his unending influence on many diverse cultures.Apaches: Gang of Paris
6.03
Overview:
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring robbery.Bigbug
5.3
Overview:
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.A Saturday on Earth
5.7
Overview:
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...Delicatessen
7.291
Overview:
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.Acting
TBAViolette as Unknown
TBACoffeehouse Mysteries as Waiter
TBAGilles et Louise as Unknown
2025You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? as Edgar
2025She Loved Blossoms More as Logo
2024Memoir of a Snail as Percy Pudel (voice)
2024At the End of the Day as Le médecin
2023The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2 Episodes) as Antoine
2023Apaches: Gang of Paris as Gueule de Bois
2023Amélie: The Real Story as (archive footage)
2022Good People (6 Episodes) as Roger
2022A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon as Le détective privé
2022Hamlet Within as Unknown
2022The Island of Thirty Coffins (6 Episodes) as Horacio
2022Bigbug as Igor
2021Emma Bovary as Homais
2021Pierre & Jeanne as Le notaire
2021A Perfect Enemy as Jean Rosen
2021Dernière Station as Le pompiste
2019Jo as L'Inspecteur Ducros
2019Dark Stories to Survive the Night as Jean Luc
2019Dark Stories (1 Episode) as Jean-Luc Barrouf
2019Spread Your Wings as Pichon
2019I Love My Mum as French Restaurant Manager
2019Anna as Monk Dominic
2019Magnetick Pathways as Raymond Vachs
2018Cyrano, My Love as Lucien
2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta as Unknown
2018White Fang as Beauty Smith (voice)
2017Based on a True Story as Raymond
2017Two Snails Set Off as (voice)
2017Vive la crise ! as Noël
2017Somewhere Beautiful as Magazine Editor
2017La DorMeuse Duval as Basile Matrin
2016Max & Leon as Michel
2015Cassandre (33 Episodes) as Jean-Pierre Marchand
2015A Love You as Serge
2015The Price of Desire as Fernand Leger
2015Soulless 2 as Bernard
2014OXI, an Act of Resistance as Investigator
2014Brèves de comptoir as Taxi 2
2014My Old Lady as Monsieur Lefebvre
2014Outlander (6 Episodes) as Master Raymond
2013The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet as Two Clouds
2013Murders in... (1 Episode) as Le Kid
2013Serial Teachers as L'inspecteur d'académie
2012Metal Hurlant Chronicles (3 Episodes) as Stanley Summers
2012La Guerre du Royal Palace as Colonel Otto Strudel
2012The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm as L'inspecteur Lamentin
2011Holidays by the Sea as Homme caravane
2011Madame Sans Gêne as Fouché
2011Crédit pour tous as Gobert
2010Specky Four-Eyes as Narrator
2010Un pied dans le crime as Unknown
2010What War May Bring as Maurice Lemoine
2010Colère as Mougin, le sorcier
2010Mumu as Père de Roger
2009Murphy's Law as Rudy
2009Micmacs as Fracasse
2009Humans as Gildas
2009Morris: A Life with Bells On as Jean Baptiste
2009The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (1 Episode) as Hubert Petitpont
2009An Organization of Dreams as Inspector
2008A Day at the Museum as Simon
2008The Clown as Unknown
2008Fin de partie as Hamm
2008The Oxford Murders as Frank
2008Dante 01 as César
2007Moon in a Bottle as Pascal Rossignol
2007Midsummer Madness as Toni
2007L'Acte inconnu as Unknown
2007Crossed Tracks as Pierre Laclos / Louis
2006When Evil Calls as Detective Ringwald
2006Dikkenek as Stef
2006Sable noir (1 Episode) as Axel
2005Your Name is Justine as Oncle Goran
2005Camping à la ferme as Rodolphe Peretti
2005Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
2005L'Hiver sous la table as Dragomir
2005Ze Film as Le SDF
2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey as His Excellency's Fop
2004A Very Long Engagement as Sylvain
2004Darkhunters as Charlie Jackson
2004Ne quittez pas ! as Le clochard
2004Hellbreeder as Detective Weiss
2004Le bon, la brute et les zombies as Petit cowboy
2003Entrusted as Henri Lafont
2003At Home with the Rozes as le lieutenant
2003Nachtschicht (1 Episode) as Emile Gaspard
2003Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure as Fredy Mazas
2003Parts of the Family as Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
2002Dead or Alive as The Butcher
2001Quelle Aventure ! (1, 1 Episode) as 'La Buse', Frère Godefroy
2001Caméra Café as Jean-Pierre
2001Beautiful Memories as Robert
2001Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! as P'tit gars
2001Amélie as Joseph
2000Sabotage!! as Armani
2000Highway Melody as Jacky Carpe
2000The Pilot as Pilot
1999Like a Fish Out of Water as Melvin
1999Quasimodo d'el Paris as Trouillefou
1997Alien Resurrection as Vriess
1997Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen as Adrien
1997Mordbüro as Eugène
1996A Saturday on Earth as Le brigadier Morel
1996La Gotera as 'Pastel de Fer'
1995The City of Lost Children as The Diver / The Clones
1994KO Kid as K.O Kid
1993Loonies at Large as Angel
1993My Name is Victor as Bernard
1992Août as Eugène Blouzette
1991Les arcandiers as Bruno
1991Delicatessen as Louison
199125 décembre 58, 10h36 as Dominique
19901871 as Napoléon III
1990Things I Like, Things I Don't Like as Man
1989The French Revolution as Drouet
1988The Legend of the Holy Drinker as Wojtech
1988The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau as Albert
1988Frantic as Wino
1988Le Rêve du Phenix as Unknown
1987Devil's Paradise as Gato
1986Rückfahrt in den Tod as Fred
1986Sauve-toi, Lola as Jean-Pierre
1986Cent francs l'amour as Tom
1986Follow My Gaze as Frédéric
1986Betty Blue as Surfer
1985Zina as Pierre
1985Via Mala (3 Episodes) as Niklaus Lauretz
1985La Baston as Marcel Noblet
1985Going and Coming Back as Villager
1985The Telephone Always Rings Twice as Monsieur Pichon
1984Dream One as Monkey
1984Mint Tea as Roger
1983Ghost Dance as Salesman/Guide
1983The Moon in the Gutter as Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother
1983Car Cemetery as Ybar
1983If I Were 1000 Years Old as Unknown
1982Enigma as Madman (uncredited)
1982Shot Pattern as Daniel Verlot
1982The Return of Martin Guerre as Antoine
1982La Chanson du mal-aimé as Albert de Kostrowitzky
1982Noisy Neighbours as Musician
1982Merlin ou le cours de l'or as Le fils
1981Diva as Le curé
1980La Découverte as The young painter