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.
Movie | Hamlet Revenant | 2025 | |
Movie | She Loved Blossoms More | Logo | 2024-06-07 |
Movie | Apaches: Gang of Paris | Gueule de Bois | 2023-03-29 |
Series | The Island of Thirty Coffins | Horacio | 2022-03-21 |
Movie | Bigbug | Igor | 2022-02-11 |
Movie | A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | Le détective privé | 2022-05-25 |
Series | Good People | Roger | 2022-10-23 |
Movie | A Perfect Enemy | Jean Rosen | 2021-06-11 |
Movie | Pierre & Jeanne | Le notaire | 2021-08-29 |
Movie | Emma Bovary | Homais | 2021-12-13 |
Movie | Magnetick Pathways | Raymond Vachs | 2019-04-25 |
Movie | I Love My Mum | French Restaurant Manager | 2019-05-31 |
Movie | Jo | L'Inspecteur Ducros | 2019-11-09 |
Movie | Dark Stories to Survive the Night | Jean Luc | 2019-10-31 |
Movie | Spread Your Wings | Pichon | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | White Fang | Beauty Smith (voice) | 2018-03-28 |
Movie | O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta | 2018-05-05 | |
Movie | Cyrano, My Love | Lucien | 2018-11-10 |
Movie | La DorMeuse Duval | Basile Matrin | 2017-02-22 |
Movie | Somewhere Beautiful | Magazine Editor | 2017-04-21 |
Movie | Two Snails Set Off | (voice) | 2017-06-08 |
Movie | Vive la crise ! | Noël | 2017-05-10 |
Movie | Sélection Officielle | 2017-05-17 | |
Movie | Based on a True Story | Raymond | 2017-11-01 |
Movie | Max & Leon | Michel | 2016-11-01 |
Movie | The Price of Desire | Fernand Leger | 2015-03-19 |
Movie | Soulless 2 | Bernard | 2015-03-05 |
Movie | A Love You | Serge | 2015-06-24 |
Series | Cassandre | Jean-Pierre Marchand | 2015-11-28 |
Movie | My Old Lady | Monsieur Lefebvre | 2014-09-09 |
Movie | Brèves de comptoir | Taxi 2 | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | OXI, an Act of Resistance | Investigator | 2014-10-09 |
Movie | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Two Clouds | 2013-10-16 |
Movie | Serial Teachers | L'inspecteur d'académie | 2013-04-17 |
Movie | The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm | L'inspecteur Lamentin | 2012-01-11 |
Movie | La Guerre du Royal Palace | Colonel Otto Strudel | 2012-05-06 |
Movie | Holidays by the Sea | Homme caravane | 2011-06-29 |
Movie | Crédit pour tous | Gobert | 2011-03-29 |
Movie | Mumu | Père de Roger | 2010-03-24 |
Movie | Colère | Mougin, le sorcier | 2010-07-16 |
Movie | What War May Bring | Maurice Lemoine | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Jean Baptiste | 2009-01-09 |
Movie | Murphy's Law | Rudy | 2009-11-04 |
Movie | Humans | Gildas | 2009-04-22 |
Movie | Micmacs | Fracasse | 2009-10-28 |
Movie | Dante 01 | César | 2008-01-02 |
Movie | The Oxford Murders | Frank | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | A Day at the Museum | Simon | 2008-11-19 |
Movie | Fin de partie | Hamm | 2008-09-23 |
Movie | Crossed Tracks | Pierre Laclos / Louis | 2007-06-27 |
Movie | Moon in a Bottle | Pascal Rossignol | 2007-11-16 |
Movie | Midsummer Madness | Toni | 2007-10-12 |
Movie | Dikkenek | Stef | 2006-06-21 |
Movie | When Evil Calls | Detective Ringwald | 2006-06-30 |
Movie | L'Hiver sous la table | Dragomir | 2005-04-19 |
Movie | Ze Film | Le SDF | 2005-02-23 |
Movie | Camping à la ferme | Rodolphe Peretti | 2005-06-29 |
Movie | Your Name is Justine | Oncle Goran | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Hellbreeder | Detective Weiss | 2004-03-16 |
Movie | Ne quittez pas ! | Le clochard | 2004-08-18 |
Movie | Le bon, la brute et les zombies | Petit cowboy | 2004-02-07 |
Movie | Darkhunters | Charlie Jackson | 2004-09-07 |
Movie | A Very Long Engagement | Sylvain | 2004-10-27 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | His Excellency's Fop | 2004-12-22 |
Movie | Parts of the Family | Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited) | 2003-01-10 |
Movie | At Home with the Rozes | le lieutenant | 2003-04-02 |
Movie | Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure | Fredy Mazas | 2003-02-07 |
Movie | Entrusted | Henri Lafont | 2003-07-03 |
Movie | Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! | P'tit gars | 2001-07-01 |
Movie | Amélie | Joseph | 2001-04-25 |
Series | Caméra Café | Jean-Pierre | 2001-10-29 |
Movie | Beautiful Memories | Robert | 2001-08-24 |
Movie | Sabotage!! | Armani | 2000-10-14 |
Movie | Highway Melody | Jacky Carpe | 2000-06-28 |
Movie | Like a Fish Out of Water | Melvin | 1999-05-05 |
Movie | Quasimodo d'el Paris | Trouillefou | 1999-03-24 |
Movie | Alien Resurrection | Vriess | 1997-11-12 |
Movie | La Gotera | 'Pastel de Fer' | 1996-01-01 |
Movie | A Saturday on Earth | Le brigadier Morel | 1996-08-28 |
Movie | The City of Lost Children | The Diver / The Clones | 1995-05-17 |
Movie | Loonies at Large | Angel | 1993-08-11 |
Movie | My Name is Victor | Bernard | 1993-03-16 |
Movie | Août | Eugène Blouzette | 1992-01-08 |
Movie | Les arcandiers | Bruno | 1991-12-11 |
Movie | Delicatessen | Louison | 1991-04-17 |
Movie | 1871 | Napoléon III | 1990-09-09 |
Movie | The french revolution: Years of rage | Drouet | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | The french revolution: Years of hope | Drouet | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | Frantic | Wino | 1988-02-19 |
Movie | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Wojtech | 1988-09-02 |
Movie | The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau | Albert | 1988-08-24 |
Movie | Devil's Paradise | Gato | 1987-05-07 |
Movie | Betty Blue | Surfer | 1986-04-09 |
Movie | Follow My Gaze | Frédéric | 1986-04-23 |
Movie | Rückfahrt in den Tod | Fred | 1986-09-22 |
Movie | Cent francs l'amour | Tom | 1986-08-20 |
Movie | Sauve-toi, Lola | Jean-Pierre | 1986-09-03 |
Movie | The Telephone Always Rings Twice | Monsieur Pichon | 1985-01-23 |
Movie | Going and Coming Back | Un villageois | 1985-03-27 |
Movie | La Baston | Marcel Noblet | 1985-08-07 |
Series | Via Mala | Niklaus Lauretz | 1985-09-01 |
Movie | Zina | Pierre | 1985-11-01 |
Movie | Dream One | Monkey | 1984-12-12 |
Movie | Car Cemetery | Ybar | 1983-04-30 |
Movie | If I Were 1000 Years Old | 1983-01-14 | |
Movie | The Moon in the Gutter | Frank | 1983-05-18 |
Movie | Ghost Dance | Salesman/Guide | 1983-12-15 |
Movie | La Chanson du mal-aimé | 1982-02-03 | |
Movie | The Return of Martin Guerre | Antoine | 1982-05-14 |
Movie | Shot Pattern | Daniel Verlot | 1982-09-21 |
Movie | Enigma | Un fou (uncredited) | 1982-10-15 |
Movie | Diva | Le curé | 1981-03-11 |
Movie | La Découverte | The young painter | 1980-12-31 |