Biography
Pierre Diot is a French actor and humorist. Born on 5 March 1968 in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, he trained at the Conservatoire national de Paris and joined the Théâtre de la Tempête at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes, where he performed works by Brecht, Shakespeare and Vitrac.
He made his screen debut in Bruno Podalydès’s Dieu seul me voit (1998). Diot appeared in eight episodes of the Maigret series (2002–2005) and gained wider recognition for his one-man show Définitivement allumé and twenty-five appearances on the comedy programme On n'demande qu'à en rire (2011–2012). His film roles include Keller in Read My Lips (2001), the theatre actor in Coco Before Chanel (2009), and Mr Marchetti in The Specials (2019).
