Actor

Pierre Coffin

Directing

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Movies: 42Series: 3Crew credits: 16

TMDB ID: 124747

IMDb ID: nm1853544

Known for: Directing

Born: March 16, 1967

Age: 59

Place of birth: France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 2026

Years active: 74

Average TMDB rating: 6.8

Wikidata: Q3384479

Also known as

Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin

Other jobs

Director (8)Executive Producer (3)Writer (3)Creator (1)Producer (1)

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Biography

Pierre Coffin, born in 1967, is a French animator and director. He was trained at the Gobelins in Paris and started to work at Amblimation, the 2D London based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg-executive-produced We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as animator, animation supervisor, and eventually director. Afterwards, he started to collaborate with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff where in 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal. He also provided voices for a few of the minor characters. Peter Coffin has created animations named Pings ( animations of penguins being hurt or killed).