Nationality French Siblings Marie-Claire Lintang Parents Nh. Dini, Yves Coffin | Role Animator Name Pierre Coffin | |
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Full Name Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin Occupation Animator, film director, voice actor Notable work Despicable MeDespicable Me 2Minions Albums The Minion Movie, Soulmirror Movies Minions, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me Presents, Home Makeover Similar People Chris Renaud, Steve Carell, Sandra Bullock, Kristen Wiig, Chris Meledandri | ||
Grandparents Saljowidjojo, Kusaminah | ||
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Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 15 March 1967) is a French animator, film director and voice actor. He is best known for co-directing, with Chris Renaud, the films in the Despicable Me franchise, and as the voice of the Minions, which won him the Kids Family Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards.
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- Pings by pierre coffin exmachina
- Simon mayo interviews kyle balda and pierre coffin
- Life and career
- References
Simon mayo interviews kyle balda and pierre coffin
Life and career
Coffin was born in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin), an Indonesian writer and feminist. He was trained at the Gobelins animation school 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 an animator and eventually animation supervisor. Pierre Coffin's directorial career began with a short named Pings in 1997. He then started to collaborate by doing commercials with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff. He created the characters Pat & Stan for a TF1 TV series. In 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal.
Coffin directed Despicable Me 2 (2013), with Renaud, and the Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015), with Kyle Balda.
