Marie Dompnier is a French actress, singer, and director, born in 1980 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France. She is best known both in France and internationally for her role as Lieutenant Sandra Winckler in the television 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.
Career 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). The same year she appeared in the Yann Gozlan-directed 2021 mystery thriller film Black Box as Pauline.
Filmography Film YearTitleRole2012 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) Monnie2021 Black Box Pauline 2021 The AccusationLa directrice d'enquête 2022 16 ans (En. 16 years)Carine Cavani2023Black Lotus Hélène
Television YearTitleRoleNotes / ref 2012 CaïnSophie Blanchard 1 episode - Otages2013 Fais pas ci, fais pas çaMaman voisine1 episode - Une petite zone de turbulences2013 Détectives Magalie 1 episode - Doubles vies2014 Le système de PonziLucy Meli TV film2014 Petits secrets entre voisins Gina 1 episode - Une mère absente2015 Le passe-muraille (En. The wall-pass)Ariane TV film2016 The TunnelMadeleine Fournier1 episode - 2.12017 C à vous (En. C to you) Herself 2 episodes 2017 Vivement la télé (En. Definitely TV)Herself 1 episode 2014-2017 WitnessesSandra Winckler Lead role- 14 episodes 2019 Jeux d'influence (En. The Inside Game)Florence Delpierre 5 episodes 2019 SuspicionsMarion Maléval 3 episodes2019 La Dernière Vague (En. The Last Wave) Lena Lebon 6 episodes 2019 Alexandra Ehle (En. The Coroner) Nathalie Lautreme 1 episode2021 Prière d'enquêter (En. Please investigate) Juliette 1 episode - "Oeil pour oeil" (En. An eye for an eye)2021 Capitaine Marleau Lily TerrierS4.E4 "L'homme qui brûle" (En. The Burning Man)2021 Clèves La mère de MyrtilleTV film 2023 Cœurs noirs (En. Dark Hearts) Adèle BrocknerMain role - 6 episodes
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2015Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels Series : Fipa d'or Best Actress Witnesses 2015 ACS Awards Best Actress Witnesses
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