Marie Dompnier

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Marie Dompnier
Dompnier in 2021
Born1980
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
OccupationActress
Years active2007–present

Marie Dompnier is a French actress, singer and director born in 1980 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, in France, best known both in France and internationally for her role as Lieutenant Sandra Winckler in the TV series Witnesses (Les Témoins).

Education[edit]

From 2000 to 2002, Dompnier took professional training as an actor in the Ateliers du Sapajou in Paris, Marie furthered her education in 2003, at the Centre Dramatique National in Poitiers. From 2002 to 2004, she also studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique, 5th arrondissement of Paris. Dompnier joined the L’École régionale d’acteurs de Cannes in 2004, graduating in 2007.[1][2]

Career[edit]

Dompnier spent most of her early acting career performing in classical and contemporary works in the theatre. [3][1] Dompnier was part of the company Artéria in residence at the Théâtre du Soleil until 2004. Then Marie joined the collective "La Vie brief", with whom she played Robert Plankett in 2011, in a staging of Jeanne Candel[4] In 2014, Dompnier was part of the taste of fake and other songs, in Jeanne Candel. In 2012, she appeared for the first time in the cinema in Dante Desarthe's Je fais feu de tout bois, before securing a small role in the television series Caïn in 2012 and Détectives in 2013.[4]

In 2014, she played the role of Charlotte Poussin in the film Les Gazelles alongside myriad actresses including Camille Chamoux, also co-writer. She befriended the latter and staged her show, born under Giscard.[4]

Dompnier was spotted during a "face camera" staging, by director Hervé Hadmar, and offered her the main role of his TV series Witnesses on France 2 alongside Thierry Lhermitte in 2015. At the time, Dompnier was unknown to the general public and the channel was hesitant to accept the casting, but the creators confirm their choice.[3] Thanks to this role of Lieutenant Sandra Winckler, she obtained the Golden FIPA of female interpretation at the Festival International des programmes audiovisuals of Biarritz 2015. The British TV company Channel 4 secured rights to air the first series of French crime TV series Witnesses in 2015,[5] and the BBC acquired rights to broadcast series 2 of Witnesses on BBC 4 and I-Player in late 2017.[6]

In 2019, Dompnier starred in the disaster TV miniseries La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave), for France 2.[7] In 2021, Dompnier starred in the Rodolphe Tissot directed television film Clèves,[8] and as La directrice d'enquête in the French feature film Les Choses humaines (En. The Accusation).[9] The same year she appeared in the Yann Gozlan-directed 2021 mystery thriller film Black Box as Pauline.[10]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Title Role
2012 Je fais feu de tout bois (En. I set the forest on fire) Coralie
2014 Diplomacy La dame maquillée
2014 Les Gazelles Charlotte Poussin
2019 Le tapis (Short film) Monnie
2021 Black Box Pauline [9]
2021 The Accusation La directrice d'enquête [9]
2022 16 ans (En. 16 years) Carine Cavani
2023 Black Lotus Hélène

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes / ref
2012 Caïn Sophie Blanchard 1 episode - Otages
2013 Fais pas ci, fais pas ça Maman voisine 1 episode - Une petite zone de turbulences
2013 Détectives Magalie 1 episode - Doubles vies
2014 Le système de Ponzi Lucy Meli TV film
2014 Petits secrets entre voisins Gina 1 episode - Une mère absente
2015 Le passe-muraille (En. The wall-pass) Ariane TV film
2016 The Tunnel Madeleine Fournier 1 episode - 2.1
2017 C à vous (En. C to you) Herself 2 episodes
2017 Vivement la télé (En. Definitely TV) Herself 1 episode
2014-2017 Witnesses Sandra Winckler Lead role- 14 episodes
2019 Jeux d'influence (En. The Inside Game) Florence Delpierre 5 episodes
2019 Suspicions Marion Maléval 3 episodes
2019 La Dernière Vague (En. The Last Wave) Lena Lebon 6 episodes
2019 Alexandra Ehle (En. The Coroner) Nathalie Lautreme 1 episode
2021 Prière d'enquêter (En. Please investigate) Juliette 1 episode - "Oeil pour oeil" (En. An eye for an eye)
2021 Capitaine Marleau Lily Terrier S4.E4 "L'homme qui brûle" (En. The Burning Man)
2021 Clèves La mère de Myrtille TV film [8]
2023 Cœurs noirs (En. Dark Hearts) Adèle Brockner Main role - 6 episodes

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2015 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels Series : Fipa d'or Best Actress Witnesses Won [11]
2015 ACS Awards Best Actress Witnesses Won [12][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Isabelle Dhombres (18 March 2015). "Les Témoins : qui est Marie Dompnier, la partenaire de Thierry Lhermitte ?". Télé Star.
  2. ^ "Marie Dompnier (Sandra Winckler dans "Les Témoins"): Qui est-elle ?". francais-express.com. 2017. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "French Series Witnesses available in the US: Interview with Marie Dompnier". Film TV and new media, French embassy to US. 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Biographie de Marie Dompnier". lessensdesmots.eu. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Interview with Marie Dompnier". Channel 4. 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  6. ^ "BBC Four to air eight-part French drama series Witnesses: A Frozen Death". BBC 4. 2017. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Last Wave: France 2 launches the filming of a fantastic series disaster". allocine.fr. 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Clèves". radiotimes.com. 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  9. ^ a b c "Marie Dompnier Actrice". unifrance.org. 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "Marie Dompnier Actrice". unifrance.org. 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Marie Dompnier Awards". imdb.com (Index source only). Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  12. ^ "FIPA 2015 : Palmarès complet avec Marvellous pour le Fipa d'Or". publikart.net. February 25, 2015.

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