Marie Dompnier

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).

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

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.[1][2]

Career

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 began filming of the disaster TV miniseries "The Last Wave", for France 2.[7]

Filmography
Year Title Role
2012 Je fais feu de tout bois Coralie
2014 Diplomacy (2014 film) La dame maquillée
2014 Les Gazelles Charlotte Poussin
2019 Le tapis (Short film) Monnie

TV
Year Title Role
2012 Caïn (TV Series) Sophie Blanchard (1 episode)
2013 Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (TV Series) Maman voisine (1 episode)
2013 Détectives (TV Series) Magalie (1 episode)
2014 Le système de Ponzi (TV Movie) Lucy Meli
2014 Petits secrets entre voisins (TV Series) Gina (1 episode)
2015 Le passe-muraille (TV Movie) Ariane
2016 The Tunnel (TV series) Madeleine Fournier 1 episode
2017 C à vous (TV Series) Herself (2 episodes)
2017 Vivement la télé (TV Series) Herself (1 episode)
2014-2017 Witnesses (TV series) Sandra Winckler (14 episodes )
2019 Jeux d'influence (TV Mini-Series) (En. The Inside Game) Florence Delpierre (5 episodes)
2019 Alexandra Ehle 1 episode
2019 Suspicions (TV Mini-Series) Marion Maléval (3 episodes)
2019 La Dernière Vague (TV Mini-Series) (En. The Last Wave) Lena Lebon (6 episodes)
2019 The Coroner (TV series) Nathalie Lautreme (1 episode)

Awards

Festival International des programmes audiovisuales de Biarritz 2015: FIPA d'or for female interpretation in a television series for the Witnesses [3][1]

References
  1. 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. "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. "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.
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