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Biography
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.
Life
After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris and enrolled at the Cours Simon. In 1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix made him begin in cinema with the movie Diva.
In 2011, he was the president of the jury for the second Festival International du Film fantastique d'Audincourt.
Pinon was born in Saumur, France. He has had roles in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Jacques Beineix. In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli and Valère Novarina. He has also appeared in three films by British horror director Johannes Roberts.
He received the Molière Award for Best Actor in 2004. He is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres since 2014.
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 | |
| Mein Kampf (farce) | George Tabori | Jorge Lavelli | ||
| 2001 | L'Ombre de Venceslao | Copi | Jorge Lavelli | |
| 2002 | L'Origine rouge | Valère Novarina | Valère Novarina | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Yannis Kokkos | ||
| 2003 | L'Incroyable Voyage | Gilles Granouillet | Philippe Adrien | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| All That Fall | Samuel Beckett | Jacques Nichet | ||
| Schopenhauer, lettres à son disciple | ||||
| 2013 | The Madwoman of Chaillot | Jean Giraudoux | Didier Long | |
| 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 | |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Christophe Lidon | ||
| 2015 | Les Lois de la gravité | Jean Teulé | Anne Bourgeois |
