Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 15 March 1967) is a French voice
actor, animator and film director best known for co-directing all four
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.Coffin
was born in France to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini, an
Indonesian novelist. He was trained at the Gobelins animation school
in Paris and started to work at Amblin, 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 (2010) and
Despicable Me 2 (2013), with Renaud, Despicable Me 3 (2017) and the
Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015) with Kyle Balda.
actor, animator and film director best known for co-directing all four
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.Coffin
was born in France to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini, an
Indonesian novelist. He was trained at the Gobelins animation school
in Paris and started to work at Amblin, 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 (2010) and
Despicable Me 2 (2013), with Renaud, Despicable Me 3 (2017) and the
Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015) with Kyle Balda.
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