---
name: "Dominique Pinon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dominique-pinon"
fi1m_id: "dominique-pinon"
imdb_id: "nm0684500"
tmdb_id: 2413
wikidata_id: "Q38554"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 March 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-09-30T22:30:17.867800+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dominique Pinon

## Identity

Dominique Pinon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dominique-pinon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dominique-pinon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0684500
- **TMDB ID:** 2413
- **Wikidata ID:** Q38554
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Pinon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2413

Actor. Born 4 March 1955 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 March 1955, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
- **Active:** 1981–present
- **Also known as:** Доминик Пиньон, دومینیک پینان
- **Frequently works with:** [Jean-Pierre Jeunet](https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-jeunet.md), [Audrey Tautou](https://film.one/person/audrey-tautou.md), [Claudie Ossard](https://film.one/person/claudie-ossard.md), [Gilles Adrien](https://film.one/person/gilles-adrien.md), [Guillaume Laurant](https://film.one/person/guillaume-laurant.md), [Jean-Claude Dreyfus](https://film.one/person/jean-claude-dreyfus.md), [Marc Caro](https://film.one/person/marc-caro.md), [Ron Perlman](https://film.one/person/ron-perlman.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 74 (3), 2000s 82 (1), 2010s 74 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 70 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 6 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 3, Science Fiction 3, Action 2, Fantasy 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $342m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Pinon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2413

## Coming up

- *Violette* (2026-12-09)

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Delicatessen*](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md) (83)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The City of Lost Children*](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md) (78)
- **AMC+:** [*Memoir of a Snail*](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md) (72)

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## Fi1m on Dominique Pinon

> Dominique Pinon makes physical comedy feel like ordinary behaviour, even when the people around him are grotesque. His Louison in *Delicatessen* shows how much warmth he can bring to a cruel film.

In *Delicatessen* (1991), Dominique Pinon makes a former clown's physical ingenuity look like an everyday necessity. His Louison seems to need these skills, rather than having them merely for our entertainment. It is a sweet performance without being an appeal to be found adorable, and it gives Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's black comedy someone worth caring about. The surrounding eccentrics sometimes tire us; Louison does not.

That leading role was his breakthrough, a decade after his feature debut in *Diva* (1981). It also began the sustained screen partnership with Jeunet that took him into the multiple parts of the Diver and the Clones in *The City of Lost Children* (1995), then to Vriess in *Alien: Resurrection* (1997). Those parts belong to a career in which he has frequently been cast as eccentric or grotesque characters. The danger is easy to see: an actor so readily cast as peculiar can be asked to supply peculiarity and little else.

The useful lesson from *Delicatessen* is how much the casting around him matters. Marie-Laure Dougnac's Julie allows the romance to be tender, while Jean-Claude Dreyfus's Clapet provides a blunt enough threat to keep the comedy from becoming harmless. We were moved by Louison and Julie because their affection feels worth protecting amid all that cruelty. Pinon does not have to make every oddity lovable, which is fortunate when some of the supporting characters are so insistently strange. His warmth is enough to keep the cannibalism funny without making it pleasant.

Jeunet continued to cast him, as Joseph in *Amélie* (2001) and Sylvain in the period drama *A Very Long Engagement* (2004). We would not ask Pinon to give up strange characters; they offer plenty of work for an actor with his physical expressiveness. We would ask directors to remember how much it matters that Louison is allowed to be sympathetic. Start with *Delicatessen*, provided everyone on the sofa is willing to find cannibalism funny.

## Biography

Dominique Pinon is a French actor. Born on 4 March 1955 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, he studied at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers before moving to Paris to train at the Cours Simon acting school. He made his feature film debut in Jean-Jacques Beineix's *Diva* (1981).

Pinon is known for his frequent collaborations with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He played Louison in *Delicatessen* (1991), appeared in *The City of Lost Children* (1995), *Alien Resurrection* (1997) as Vriess, *Amélie* (2001) as Joseph and *A Very Long Engagement* (2004). He has also worked in theatre, receiving the Molière Award for Best Actor in 2004, and has appeared in television series including *Outlander* (2016) as Master Raymond.

*Sources: themoviedb.org, imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Memoir of a Snail* (2024), Fi1m 72, as Percy Pudel (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md)
- *Outlander* (2014), Fi1m 74, as Master Raymond — [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md)
- *Amélie* (2001), Fi1m 82, as Joseph — [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md)
- *Alien Resurrection* (1997), Fi1m 60, as Vriess — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-resurrection.md)
- *The City of Lost Children* (1995), Fi1m 78, as The Diver / The Clones — [page](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md)
- *Delicatessen* (1991), Fi1m 83, as Louison — [page](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md)
- *Diva* (1981), Fi1m 80, as Le curé — [page](https://film.one/film/diva.md)

## Complete filmography (156)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Violette* (2026), Actor
- *Cassandre - Un ciel de plomb* (2026), as Jean-Paul Marchand
- *Cassandre - Ni vu, ni connu* (2026), as Jean-Paul Marchand
- *You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?* (2026), as Edgar
- *Cassandre - Les inconnus du Sapenay* (2026), as Jean-Paul Marchand
- *Cassandre - Les captives* (2026), as Jean-Paul Marchand
- *Cassandre - Un homme parfait* (2025), as Jean-Paul Marchand
- *Jean Valjean* (2025), as Boîte à Mots
- *She Loved Blossoms More* (2025), as Logo
- *Memoir of a Snail* (2024), as Percy Pudel (voice) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md)
- *At the End of the Day* (2024), as Le médecin
- *The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon* (2023), series, as Antoine
- *Apaches: Gang of Paris* (2023), as Gueule de Bois
- *Amélie: The Real Story* (2023), as (archive footage)
- *Good People* (2022), series, as Roger
- *A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon* (2022), as Le détective privé
- *Hamlet Within* (2022), Actor
- *The Island of Thirty Coffins* (2022), series, as Horacio
- *Bigbug* (2022), as Igor
- *Emma Bovary* (2021), as Homais
- *Pierre & Jeanne* (2021), as Le notaire
- *A Perfect Enemy* (2021), as Jean Rosen
- *Dernière Station* (2021), as Le pompiste
- *Jo* (2019), as L'Inspecteur Ducros
- *Dark Stories to Survive the Night* (2019), as Jean Luc
- *Dark Stories* (2019), series, as Jean-Luc Barrouf
- *Spread Your Wings* (2019), as Pichon
- *I Love My Mum* (2019), as French Restaurant Manager
- *Anna* (2019), as Monk Dominic
- *Magnetick Pathways* (2019), as Raymond Vachs
- *Cyrano, My Love* (2018), as Lucien
- *O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta* (2018), Actor
- *White Fang* (2018), as Beauty Smith (voice)
- *Based on a True Story* (2017), as Raymond
- *Two Snails Set Off* (2017), as (voice)
- *Vive la crise !* (2017), as Noël
- *Somewhere Beautiful* (2017), as Magazine Editor
- *La DorMeuse Duval* (2017), as Basile Matrin
- *Max & Leon* (2016), as Michel
- *Cassandre* (2015), series, as Jean-Pierre Marchand
- *A Love You* (2015), as Serge
- *The Price of Desire* (2015), as Fernand Leger
- *Soulless 2* (2015), as Bernard
- *OXI, an Act of Resistance* (2014), as Investigator
- *Brèves de comptoir* (2014), as Taxi 2
- *My Old Lady* (2014), as Monsieur Lefebvre
- *Outlander* (2014), series, as Master Raymond — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md)
- *The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet* (2013), as Two Clouds
- *Murders in...* (2013), series, as Le Kid
- *Serial Teachers* (2013), as L'inspecteur d'académie
- *Metal Hurlant Chronicles* (2012), series, as Stanley Summers
- *La Guerre du Royal Palace* (2012), as Colonel Otto Strudel
- *The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm* (2012), as L'inspecteur Lamentin
- *Holidays by the Sea* (2011), as Homme caravane
- *Madame Sans Gêne* (2011), as Fouché
- *Crédit pour tous* (2011), as Gobert
- *Specky Four-Eyes* (2010), as Narrator
- *Un pied dans le crime* (2010), Actor
- *What War May Bring* (2010), as Maurice Lemoine
- *Colère* (2010), as Mougin, le sorcier
- *Mumu* (2010), as Père de Roger
- *Murphy's Law* (2009), as Rudy
- *Micmacs* (2009), as Fracasse
- *Humans* (2009), as Gildas
- *The Little Murders of Agatha Christie* (2009), series, as Hubert Petitpont
- *Morris: A Life with Bells On* (2009), as Jean Baptiste
- *An Organization of Dreams* (2009), as Inspector
- *A Day at the Museum* (2008), as Simon
- *The Clown* (2008), Actor
- *Fin de partie* (2008), as Hamm
- *The Oxford Murders* (2008), as Frank
- *Dante 01* (2008), as César
- *Moon in a Bottle* (2007), as Pascal Rossignol
- *Midsummer Madness* (2007), as Toni
- *L'Acte inconnu* (2007), Actor
- *Crossed Tracks* (2007), as Pierre Laclos / Louis
- *When Evil Calls* (2006), as Detective Ringwald
- *Dikkenek* (2006), as Stef
- *Sable noir* (2006), series, as Axel
- *Your Name is Justine* (2005), as Oncle Goran
- *Camping à la ferme* (2005), as Rodolphe Peretti
- *L'Hiver sous la table* (2005), as Dragomir
- *Ze Film* (2005), as Le SDF
- *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* (2004), as His Excellency's Fop
- *A Very Long Engagement* (2004), as Sylvain
- *Darkhunters* (2004), as Charlie Jackson
- *Ne quittez pas !* (2004), as Le clochard
- *Hellbreeder* (2004), as Detective Weiss
- *Le bon, la brute et les zombies* (2004), as Petit cowboy
- *Entrusted* (2003), as Henri Lafont
- *At Home with the Rozes* (2003), as le lieutenant
- *Nachtschicht* (2003), series, as Emile Gaspard
- *Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure* (2003), as Fredy Mazas
- *Parts of the Family* (2003), as Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
- *Dead or Alive* (2002), as The Butcher
- *Quelle Aventure !* (2001), series, as 'La Buse', Frère Godefroy
- *Caméra Café* (2001), series, as Jean-Pierre
- *Beautiful Memories* (2001), as Robert
- *Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!* (2001), as P'tit gars
- *Amélie* (2001), as Joseph — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/amelie.md)
- *Sabotage!!* (2000), as Armani
- *Highway Melody* (2000), as Jacky Carpe
- *The Pilot* (2000), as Pilot
- *Like a Fish Out of Water* (1999), as Melvin
- *Quasimodo d'el Paris* (1999), as Trouillefou
- *Alien Resurrection* (1997), as Vriess — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-resurrection.md)
- *Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen* (1997), as Adrien
- *Mordbüro* (1997), as Eugène
- *A Saturday on Earth* (1996), as Le brigadier Morel
- *La Gotera* (1996), as 'Pastel de Fer'
- *The City of Lost Children* (1995), as The Diver / The Clones — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md)
- *K.O. Kid* (1994), as K.O Kid
- *Loonies at Large* (1993), as Angel
- *My Name is Victor* (1993), as Bernard
- *Août* (1992), as Eugène Blouzette
- *Les arcandiers* (1991), as Bruno
- *Delicatessen* (1991), as Louison — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md)
- *25 décembre 58, 10h36* (1991), as Dominique
- *1871* (1990), as Napoléon III
- *Alberto Express* (1990), as Le conducteur de la locomotive
- *Things I Like, Things I Don't Like* (1990), as Man
- *The French Revolution* (1989), as Drouet
- *The Legend of the Holy Drinker* (1988), as Wojtech
- *The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau* (1988), as Albert
- *Frantic* (1988), as Wino
- *Le Rêve du Phenix* (1988), Actor
- *Devil's Paradise* (1987), as Gato
- *Rückfahrt in den Tod* (1986), as Fred
- *Sauve-toi, Lola* (1986), as Jean-Pierre
- *Cent francs l'amour* (1986), as Tom
- *Follow My Gaze* (1986), as Frédéric
- *Betty Blue* (1986), as Le dealer
- *Zina* (1985), as Pierre
- *Via Mala* (1985), series, as Niklaus Lauretz
- *La Baston* (1985), as Marcel Noblet
- *Going and Coming Back* (1985), as Villager
- *The Telephone Always Rings Twice* (1985), as Monsieur Pichon
- *Dream One* (1984), as Monkey
- *Mint Tea* (1984), as Roger
- *Ghost Dance* (1983), as Salesman/Guide
- *The Moon in the Gutter* (1983), as Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother
- *Car Cemetery* (1983), as Ybar
- *If I Were 1000 Years Old* (1983), Actor
- *Enigma* (1982), as Madman (uncredited)
- *Shot Pattern* (1982), as Daniel Verlot
- *The Return of Martin Guerre* (1982), as Antoine
- *La Chanson du mal-aimé* (1982), as Albert de Kostrowitzky
- *Merlin ou le cours de l'or* (1982), as Le fils
- *Noisy Neighbours* (1982), as Musician
- *Diva* (1981), as Le curé — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/diva.md)
- *La Découverte* (1980), as The young painter
- *Meurtres à Honfleur*, as Le Kid
- *A Door to the Woods*, Actor
- *Gilles et Louise*, Actor
- *Judgement*, as Dominique
- *Coffeehouse Mysteries*, as Waiter

## Gallery

- ![Dominique Pinon](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-b33bbd912d6a.jpg) Dominique Pinon — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Dominique_Pinon_Lumi%C3%A8res_2015_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dominique Pinon - Grand Prix du livre audio 2015](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-37095212b0c9.jpg) Dominique Pinon - Grand Prix du livre audio 2015 — ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Dominique_Pinon_-_Grand_Prix_du_livre_audio_2015_%2818674417110%29.jpg/1280px-Dominique_Pinon_-_Grand_Prix_du_livre_audio_2015_%2818674417110%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominique Pinon - Grand Prix du livre audio 2015](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-118e42beb6d5.jpg) Dominique Pinon - Grand Prix du livre audio 2015 — ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Dominique_Pinon_-_Grand_Prix_du_livre_audio_2015_%2818835847006%29.jpg/1280px-Dominique_Pinon_-_Grand_Prix_du_livre_audio_2015_%2818835847006%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominique Pinon à la projection en avant-première de "She Loved Blossoms More" au festival de Gérardmer, en janvier 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-b305f0875576.jpg) Dominique Pinon à la projection en avant-première de "She Loved Blossoms More" au festival de Gérardmer, en janvier 2025. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Dominique_Pinon_2025.jpg/1280px-Dominique_Pinon_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominique Pinon](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-c4fba0a0c93b.jpg) Dominique Pinon — Image via TMDB
- ![Dominique Pinon](https://film.one/media/person/78773/gallery-1294c776f4a6.jpg) Dominique Pinon — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award 1991: Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (won), for *Delicatessen*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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