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.

Filmography

• 2026Cassandre - Les captives — Jean-Paul Marchand
• 2026Cassandre - Les inconnus du Sapenay — Jean-Paul Marchand
• 2026Cassandre - Ni vu, ni connu — Jean-Paul Marchand
• 2026Cassandre - Un ciel de plomb — Jean-Paul Marchand
• 2026Violette
• 2026You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak? — Edgar
• 2025Cassandre - Un homme parfait — Jean-Paul Marchand
• 2025Jean Valjean — Boîte à Mots
• 2025She Loved Blossoms More — Logo
• 2024At the End of the Day — Le médecin
• 2024Memoir of a Snail — Percy Pudel (voice)
• 2023Amélie: The Real Story — (archive footage)
• 2023Apaches: Gang of Paris — Gueule de Bois
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — Antoine
• 2022A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon — Le détective privé
• 2022Bigbug — Igor
• Good People — Roger
• 2022Hamlet Within
• The Island of Thirty Coffins — Horacio
• 2021A Perfect Enemy — Jean Rosen
• 2021Dernière Station — Le pompiste
• 2021Emma Bovary — Homais
• 2021Pierre & Jeanne — Le notaire
• 2019Anna — Monk Dominic
• Dark Stories — Jean-Luc Barrouf
• 2019Dark Stories to Survive the Night — Jean Luc
• 2019I Love My Mum — French Restaurant Manager
• 2019Jo — L'Inspecteur Ducros
• 2019Magnetick Pathways — Raymond Vachs
• 2019Spread Your Wings — Pichon
• 2018Cyrano, My Love — Lucien
• 2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
• 2018White Fang — Beauty Smith (voice)
• 2017Based on a True Story — Raymond
• 2017La DorMeuse Duval — Basile Matrin
• 2017Somewhere Beautiful — Magazine Editor
• 2017Two Snails Set Off — (voice)
• 2017Vive la crise ! — Noël
• 2016Max & Leon — Michel
• 2015A Love You — Serge
• Cassandre — Jean-Pierre Marchand
• 2015Soulless 2 — Bernard
• 2015The Price of Desire — Fernand Leger
• 2014Brèves de comptoir — Taxi 2
• 2014My Old Lady — Monsieur Lefebvre
• 2014OXI, an Act of Resistance — Investigator
• Outlander — Master Raymond
• Murders in... — Le Kid
• 2013Serial Teachers — L'inspecteur d'académie
• 2013The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet — Two Clouds
• 2012La Guerre du Royal Palace — Colonel Otto Strudel
• Metal Hurlant Chronicles — Stanley Summers
• 2012The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm — L'inspecteur Lamentin
• 2011Crédit pour tous — Gobert
• 2011Holidays by the Sea — Homme caravane
• 2011Madame Sans Gêne — Fouché
• 2010Colère — Mougin, le sorcier
• 2010Mumu — Père de Roger
• 2010Specky Four-Eyes — Narrator
• 2010Un pied dans le crime
• 2010What War May Bring — Maurice Lemoine
• 2009An Organization of Dreams — Inspector
• 2009Humans — Gildas
• 2009Micmacs — Fracasse
• 2009Morris: A Life with Bells On — Jean Baptiste
• 2009Murphy's Law — Rudy
• The Little Murders of Agatha Christie — Hubert Petitpont
• 2008A Day at the Museum — Simon
• 2008Dante 01 — César
• 2008Fin de partie — Hamm
• 2008The Clown
• 2008The Oxford Murders — Frank
• 2007Crossed Tracks — Pierre Laclos / Louis
• 2007L'Acte inconnu
• 2007Midsummer Madness — Toni
• 2007Moon in a Bottle — Pascal Rossignol
• 2006Dikkenek — Stef
• Sable noir — Axel
• 2006When Evil Calls — Detective Ringwald
• 2005Camping à la ferme — Rodolphe Peretti
• 2005L'Hiver sous la table — Dragomir
• 2005Your Name is Justine — Oncle Goran
• 2005Ze Film — Le SDF
• 2004A Very Long Engagement — Sylvain
• 2004Darkhunters — Charlie Jackson
• 2004Hellbreeder — Detective Weiss
• 2004Le bon, la brute et les zombies — Petit cowboy
• 2004Ne quittez pas ! — Le clochard
• 2004The Bridge of San Luis Rey — His Excellency's Fop
• 2003At Home with the Rozes — le lieutenant
• 2003Entrusted — Henri Lafont
• 2003Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure — Fredy Mazas
• Nachtschicht — Emile Gaspard
• 2003Parts of the Family — Shocked Woman Watching TV (uncredited)
• 2002Dead or Alive — The Butcher
• 2001Amélie — Joseph
• 2001Beautiful Memories — Robert
• Caméra Café — Jean-Pierre
• 2001Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver! — P'tit gars
• Quelle Aventure ! — 'La Buse', Frère Godefroy
• 2000Highway Melody — Jacky Carpe
• 2000Sabotage!! — Armani
• 2000The Pilot — Pilot
• 1999Like a Fish Out of Water — Melvin
• 1999Quasimodo d'el Paris — Trouillefou
• 1997Alien Resurrection — Vriess
• 1997Mordbüro — Eugène
• 1997Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen — Adrien
• 1996A Saturday on Earth — Le brigadier Morel
• 1996La Gotera — 'Pastel de Fer'
• 1995The City of Lost Children — The Diver / The Clones
• 1994K.O. Kid — K.O Kid
• 1993Loonies at Large — Angel
• 1993My Name is Victor — Bernard
• 1992Août — Eugène Blouzette
• 199125 décembre 58, 10h36 — Dominique
• 1991Delicatessen — Louison
• 1991Les arcandiers — Bruno
• 19901871 — Napoléon III
• 1990Alberto Express — Le conducteur de la locomotive
• 1990Things I Like, Things I Don't Like — Man
• 1989The French Revolution — Drouet
• 1988Frantic — Wino
• 1988Le Rêve du Phenix
• 1988The Legend of the Holy Drinker — Wojtech
• 1988The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau — Albert
• 1987Devil's Paradise — Gato
• 1986Betty Blue — Le dealer
• 1986Cent francs l'amour — Tom
• 1986Follow My Gaze — Frédéric
• 1986Rückfahrt in den Tod — Fred
• 1986Sauve-toi, Lola — Jean-Pierre
• 1985Going and Coming Back — Villager
• 1985La Baston — Marcel Noblet
• 1985The Telephone Always Rings Twice — Monsieur Pichon
• Via Mala — Niklaus Lauretz
• 1985Zina — Pierre
• 1984Dream One — Monkey
• 1984Mint Tea — Roger
• 1983Car Cemetery — Ybar
• 1983Ghost Dance — Salesman/Guide
• 1983If I Were 1000 Years Old
• 1983The Moon in the Gutter — Frank, Gérard's alcoholic brother
• 1982Enigma — Madman (uncredited)
• 1982La Chanson du mal-aimé — Albert de Kostrowitzky
• 1982Merlin ou le cours de l'or — Le fils
• 1982Noisy Neighbours — Musician
• 1982Shot Pattern — Daniel Verlot
• 1982The Return of Martin Guerre — Antoine
• 1981Diva — Le curé
• 1980La Découverte — The young painter
• A Door to the Woods
• Coffeehouse Mysteries — Waiter
• Gilles et Louise
• Judgement — Dominique
• Meurtres à Honfleur — Le Kid

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2005Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" — Self