Marie Dompnier

{{short description|French actress, singer and director|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox person

| image = File:Marie Dompnier in 2021.jpg

| caption = Dompnier in 2021

| name = Marie Dompnier

| birth_date = 1980

| birth_place = Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 2007–present

| spouse =

}}

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

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.{{cite web|title=Les Témoins : qui est Marie Dompnier, la partenaire de Thierry Lhermitte ?|url=http://www.telestar.fr/2015/photos/les-temoins-qui-est-marie-dompnier-la-partenaire-de-thierry-lhermitte-pho-88711|author=Isabelle Dhombres|website=Télé Star|date=18 March 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://francais-express.com/actualite/culture/-44702-marie-dompnier-sandra-winckler-dans-les-temoins-qui-est-elle/

|title=Marie Dompnier (Sandra Winckler dans "Les Témoins"): Qui est-elle ? |publisher= francais-express.com |date=2017|access-date=December 28, 2017}}

Career

Dompnier spent most of her early acting career performing in classical and contemporary works in the theatre.

{{cite web|url=http://frenchculture.org/film-tv-and-new-media/2804-interview-marie-dompnier

|title=French Series Witnesses available in the US: Interview with Marie Dompnier |publisher= Film TV and new media, French embassy to US |date=2010|access-date=October 14, 2017}}

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

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.{{cite web|title=Biographie de Marie Dompnier|url=http://www.lessensdesmots.eu/?page_id=624|website=lessensdesmots.eu|access-date=21 March 2015}}

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.

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. 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/interview-with-marie-dompnier |title=Interview with Marie Dompnier |publisher=Channel 4 |date=2015|access-date=December 28, 2017}} and the BBC acquired rights to broadcast series 2 of Witnesses on BBC 4 and I-Player in late 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/witness-a-frozen-death?lang=cy |title=BBC Four to air eight-part French drama series Witnesses: A Frozen Death |publisher=BBC 4 |date=2017|access-date=December 28, 2017}}

In 2019, Dompnier starred in the disaster TV miniseries La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave), for France 2.{{cite web|url=http://www.translatetheweb.com/?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-GB&dl=en&lp=FR_EN&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.allocine.fr%2farticle%2ffichearticle_gen_carticle%3d18674614.html |title=The Last Wave: France 2 launches the filming of a fantastic series disaster |publisher=allocine.fr |date=2018|access-date=September 18, 2019}}

In 2021, Dompnier starred in the Rodolphe Tissot directed television film Clèves,{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-btxq5n/clves/ |title=Clèves |publisher=radiotimes.com |date=2021|access-date=December 4, 2021}} and as La directrice d'enquête in the French feature film Les Choses humaines (En. The Accusation).{{cite web|url=https://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/409075/marie-dompnier |title=Marie Dompnier Actrice|publisher=unifrance.org |date=2021|access-date=December 4, 2021}} The same year she appeared in the Yann Gozlan-directed 2021 mystery thriller film Black Box as Pauline.{{cite web|url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/49138/black-box|title=Marie Dompnier Actrice|publisher=unifrance.org |date=2021|access-date=February 14, 2023}}

Filmography

=Film=

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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

2021

|The Accusation

|La directrice d'enquête

2022

|16 ans (En. 16 years)

|Carine Cavani

2023

|Black Lotus

|Hélène

=Television=

class="wikitable unsortable"
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

2023

|Cœurs noirs (En. Dark Hearts)

| Adèle Brockner

|Main role - 6 episodes

Awards and nominations

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2015

|Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels

| Series : Fipa d'or Best Actress

|Witnesses

| {{won}}

| {{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5095015/awards|title= Marie Dompnier Awards|website=imdb.com (Index source only)|access-date=December 4, 2021}}

2015

| ACS Awards

| Best Actress

|Witnesses

| {{won}}

| {{Cite web|url=https://publikart.net/fipa-2015-palmares-complet-avec-marvellous-pour-le-fipa-dor/|title= FIPA 2015 : Palmarès complet avec Marvellous pour le Fipa d'Or |website=publikart.net|date=February 25, 2015}}

References

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