Acting
Sep 18, 1980
Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France
Marie Dompnier
Acting
Biography
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). 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. Dompnier spent most of her early acting career performing in classical and contemporary works in the theatre. 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. 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, and the BBC acquired rights to broadcast series 2 of Witnesses on BBC 4 and I-Player in late 2017. In 2019, Dompnier starred in the disaster TV miniseries La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave), for France 2. In 2021, Dompnier starred in the Rodolphe Tissot directed television film Clèves, and as La directrice d'enquête in the French feature film Les Choses humaines (En. The Accusation). Source: Article "Marie Dompnier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Feature Films (11)
After being assigned to investigate the aftermath of a catastrophic plane crash, an NTSB black box analyst uncovers chilling audio anomalies that no one else seems willing to acknowledge. As he digs deeper for the truth, he provokes powerful forces determined to silence him before he exposes a shocking conspiracy.
Black Box
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.
The Accusation
Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.
Red Soil
Nora and Léo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft accusation bringing into conflict their respective families, their love story will have to face a series of trials and dramas.
Sixteen
Television & Series (8)
Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. In the first season, police detectives Sandra Winckler and Justin investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve, is implicated. In the second season, Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims.
Witnesses
In a secluded forest, a bourgeois couple's architectural home is invaded by a hooded assailant who violently sequesters them. His true motives remain unknown - theft, assault or something entirely unexpected.
Homejacking
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
Capitaine Marleau
In Brizan, a peaceful seaside resort in the Landes, everything changes with the arrival of a first Wave : a surge of clouds which will cause the disappearance of surfers. The first in a series of phenomena that the inhabitants of this small community will be confronted with, disrupting their intimate lives.
