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 | 2024-06-07 | |
Movie | Apaches: Gang of Paris | Gueule de Bois | 2023-03-29 |
Movie | A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | Le détective privé | 2022-05-25 |
Movie | Bigbug | Igor | 2022-02-11 |
Movie | A Perfect Enemy | Jean Rosen | 2021-06-11 |
Movie | Pierre & Jeanne | Le notaire | 2021-08-29 |
Movie | Magnetick Pathways | Raymond Vachs | 2019-04-25 |
Movie | I Love My Mum | French Restaurant Manager | 2019-05-31 |
Movie | Spread Your Wings | Pichon | 2019-09-12 |
Movie | Dark Stories to Survive the Night | Jean Luc | 2019-10-31 |
Movie | White Fang | Beauty Smith (voice) | 2018-03-28 |
Movie | Cyrano, My Love | Lucien | 2018-11-10 |
Movie | Somewhere Beautiful | Magazine Editor | 2017-04-21 |
Movie | Vive la crise ! | Noël | 2017-05-10 |
Movie | La DorMeuse Duval | Basile Matrin | 2017-02-22 |
Movie | Sélection Officielle | 2017-05-17 | |
Movie | Based on a True Story | Raymond | 2017-11-01 |
Movie | Two Snails Set Off | (voice) | 2017-06-08 |
Movie | Max & Leon | Michel | 2016-11-01 |
Movie | Soulless 2 | Bernard | 2015-03-05 |
Movie | The Price of Desire | Fernand Leger | 2015-03-19 |
Series | Cassandre | Jean-Pierre Marchand | 2015-11-28 |
Movie | A Love You | Serge | 2015-06-24 |
Movie | My Old Lady | Monsieur Lefebvre | 2014-09-09 |
Movie | OXI, an Act of Resistance | Investigator | 2014-10-09 |
Movie | Brèves de comptoir | Taxi 2 | 2014-09-24 |
Movie | Serial Teachers | L'inspecteur d'académie | 2013-04-17 |
Movie | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Two Clouds | 2013-10-16 |
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 | Crédit pour tous | Gobert | 2011-03-29 |
Movie | Holidays by the Sea | Homme caravane | 2011-06-29 |
Movie | What War May Bring | Maurice Lemoine | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Mumu | Père de Roger | 2010-03-24 |
Movie | Colère | Mougin, le sorcier | 2010-07-16 |
Movie | Humans | Gildas | 2009-04-22 |
Movie | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Jean Baptiste | 2009-01-09 |
Movie | Micmacs | Fracasse | 2009-10-28 |
Movie | Murphy's Law | Rudy | 2009-11-04 |
Movie | Dante 01 | César | 2008-01-02 |
Movie | The Oxford Murders | Frank | 2008-01-18 |
Movie | Fin de partie | Hamm | 2008-09-23 |
Movie | A Day at the Museum | Simon | 2008-11-19 |
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 | Le bon, la brute et les zombies | Petit cowboy | 2004-02-07 |
Movie | Ne quittez pas ! | Le clochard | 2004-08-18 |
Movie | Hellbreeder | Detective Weiss | 2004-03-16 |
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 | Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure | Fredy Mazas | 2003-02-07 |
Movie | Entrusted | Henri Lafont | 2003-07-03 |
Movie | At Home with the Rozes | le lieutenant | 2003-04-02 |
Movie | Amélie | Joseph | 2001-04-25 |
Movie | Beautiful Memories | Robert | 2001-08-24 |
Movie | Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! | P'tit gars | 2001-07-01 |
Movie | Highway Melody | Jacky Carpe | 2000-06-28 |
Movie | Sabotage!! | Armani | 2000-10-14 |
Movie | Quasimodo d'el Paris | Trouillefou | 1999-03-24 |
Movie | Like a Fish Out of Water | Melvin | 1999-05-05 |
Movie | Alien Resurrection | Dom 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 | Août | Eugène Blouzette | 1992-01-08 |
Movie | 25 décembre 58, 10h36 | Dominique | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Delicatessen | Louison | 1991-04-17 |
Movie | Les arcandiers | Bruno | 1991-12-11 |
Movie | 1871 | Napoléon III | 1990-09-09 |
Movie | The French Revolution | Drouet | 1989-05-10 |
Movie | Frantic | Wino | 1988-02-19 |
Movie | The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau | Albert | 1988-08-24 |
Movie | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Wojtech | 1988-09-02 |
Movie | Devil's Paradise | Gato | 1987-05-07 |
Movie | Betty Blue | Surfer | 1986-04-09 |
Movie | Rückfahrt in den Tod | Fred | 1986-09-22 |
Movie | Follow My Gaze | Frédéric | 1986-04-23 |
Movie | Cent francs l'amour | Tom | 1986-08-20 |
Movie | Sauve-toi, Lola | Jean-Pierre | 1986-09-03 |
Movie | Going and Coming Back | Un villageois | 1985-03-27 |
Movie | The Telephone Always Rings Twice | Monsieur Pichon | 1985-01-23 |
Series | Via Mala | Niklaus Lauretz | 1985-09-01 |
Movie | La Baston | Marcel Noblet | 1985-08-07 |
Movie | Zina | Pierre | 1985-11-01 |
Movie | Dream One | Monkey | 1984-12-12 |
Movie | If I Were 1000 Years Old | 1983-01-14 | |
Movie | Car Cemetery | Ybar | 1983-04-30 |
Movie | The Moon in the Gutter | Frank | 1983-05-18 |
Movie | Ghost Dance | Salesman/Guide | 1983-12-15 |
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 |