Marie Dompnier

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.

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. 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