Pierre Niney

Pierre Niney (born 13 March 1989) is a French actor. He made his acting debut in the two-part television miniseries La dame d'Izieu in 2007, followed by films such as LOL (Laughing Out Loud), The Army of Crime, Romantics Anonymous and Comme des frères. In October 2010, at age 21, he became the youngest member of the Comédie-Française. In 2014, Niney starred as fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic of the same name, for which he won a César Award for Best Actor. His family is of Sephardic Jewish (Egyptian-Jewish) and Catholic background. Source: Article "Pierre Niney" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

The Torch

Goodbye villa and hello Chupacabra. After THE FLAME, Marc and 15 other contestants will have to compete and survive on a deserted island. Physical challenges, mental manipulation, and emotional betrayals will be the ingredients of this tropical cocktail.

Release Date2022-05-23

Charactersd Dr Bruno Juiphe

Episode Count9

Vote Count69

Casting(s)

Casting(s) was a French television shortcom created by Pierre Niney and Ali Marhyar, written by Ali Marhyar, Igor Gotesman and Pierre Niney, produced by Hugo Gélin for Zazi Films and broadcast on Canal+ from 2013 to 2015. The episodes revolved around actors rehearsing for different film projects for a casting director. The show also had famous guests such as Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and rappers Orelsan and Nekfeu.

Release Date2013-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Pierre

Episode Count40

Vote Count10

La Flamme

Release Date2020-10-12

Charactersd Dr Bruno Juiphe

Episode Count9

Vote Count102

The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

Release Date2024-06-28

Charactersd Edmond Dantès / The Count of Monte Cristo

Vote Count1659

Very Bad Blagues

Release Date2011-03-21

Charactersd Stéphane

Episode Count1

Vote Count15

Fiasco

When disaster strikes the set of a first-time director, a behind-the-scenes film crew captures everything as mishaps, blackmail and sabotage ensue.

Release Date2024-04-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Raphaël Valande

Episode Count7

Vote Count59

It Boy

38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.

Release Date2013-03-06

Charactersd Balthazar Apfel

Vote Count1485

La Dame d'Izieu

When on April 6, 1983, just a few months after the arrest and extradition of Klaus Barbie on French soil, Sabine Zlatin found herself alone in Izieu to commemorate the roundup of April 6, 1944, only one question arose: after her, who will maintain the flame of the memory of the 44 Jewish children arrested and deported that day? Sabine's concern is all the more acute when she learns that the Izieu roundup cannot be included in the trial of the former Nazi, for lack of evidence. Sabine fights so that the children of Izieu are not permanently forgotten by history.

Release Date2007-03-12

Charactersd Théo Reis

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Black Box

Mathieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Mathieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss' orders, Mathieu begins his own rogue investigation - an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career...

Release Date2021-09-08

Charactersd Matthieu Vasseur

Vote Count1310

Yves Saint Laurent

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

Release Date2014-01-08

Charactersd Yves Saint Laurent

Vote Count896

OSS 117: From Africa with Love

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.

Release Date2021-08-04

Charactersd Serge / OSS 1001

Vote Count818

Promise at Dawn

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

Release Date2017-12-20

Charactersd Romain Gary

Vote Count498

The Book of Solutions

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.

Release Date2023-06-07

Charactersd Marc Becker

Vote Count284

Army of Crime

This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.

Release Date2009-09-16

Charactersd Henri Keltekian

Vote Count107

LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.

Release Date2009-02-04

Charactersd Julien

Vote Count1317

Goliath

Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.

Release Date2022-03-09

Charactersd Mathias Rozen

Vote Count381

The Odyssey

The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.

Release Date2016-10-12

Charactersd Philippe Cousteau

Vote Count418

Through the Fire

Franck is a firefighter in Paris. He saves people. He lives at the station with his wife, who is about to have twins. He’s happy. During a call out to a fire, he puts himself in danger, to save his men. He’s going to have to learn to live again and accept to be the one being saved, this time.

Release Date2018-11-28

Charactersd Franck Pasquier

Vote Count685

Finding Altamira

The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.

Release Date2016-04-01

Charactersd Paul Ratier

Vote Count135

Romantics Anonymous

What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.

Release Date2010-12-22

Charactersd Ludo

Vote Count553

Frantz

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

Release Date2016-09-07

Charactersd Adrien Rivoire

Vote Count706

Someone, Somewhere

Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.

Release Date2019-09-11

Charactersd Mathieu Bernard

Vote Count679

Just Like Brothers

Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.

Release Date2012-11-21

Charactersd Maxime

Vote Count263

Black Heaven

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.

Release Date2010-07-14

Charactersd Yann

Vote Count75

Five

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.

Release Date2016-03-30

Charactersd Samuel

Vote Count1291

Masquerade

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.

Release Date2022-11-01

Charactersd Adrien Saillard

Vote Count438

A Perfect Man

A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.

Release Date2015-03-18

Charactersd Mathieu Vasseur

Vote Count677

Lovers

Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.

Release Date2021-11-17

Charactersd Simon

Vote Count162

18 Years Old and Rising

Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.

Release Date2011-07-20

Charactersd Primo Bramsi

Vote Count104

School's Out

A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.

Release Date2008-07-16

Charactersd Loïc Martineau, Clémence's younger brother

Vote Count173

Canal+ Replay

Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings.

Release Date2021-04-02

Charactersd Bref

Vote Count1

La Consolation

During a party, Camille speaks about her body that’s in love and that science passes through, about time breaking down, and looks at the future.

Release Date2007-05-15

Charactersd François

Maya, Give Me a Title

Maya and her dad, Michel Gondry, live in two different countries. In order to stay in touch, her dad asks her every evening, “Maya, give me a title”. Based on her answer, he creates a short animated reply in which Maya is the hero. Michel Gondry brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that will have the little ones dreaming... and the grown-ups smiling.

Release Date2024-10-02

Charactersd The Voice / La Voix

Vote Count7

Les diamants de la victoire

Release Date2010-09-18

Charactersd Boivin de Bièvre

Vote Count3

MST : Moyennement Sûr du Titre

Mister V revisits Studio Bagel's iconic sketchshow through three shows, each consisting of six to seven sketches.

Release Date2022-04-04

Charactersd Pierre Niney [Le figurant]

Vote Count4

Un chapeau de paille d'Italie

Release Date2012-12-10

Charactersd Fadinard, rentier

Vote Count4

La Nuit de Pierre Niney

Pierre Niney shares his vision of a Parisian night, of his life after dark. Part of a series of 9 short films for Canal +.

Release Date2014-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Mom Lost It!

Release Date2009-12-15

Charactersd Arnaud

Vote Count16

Sans Rire

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Draft Dodgers

May 1944. A young man just out of college returns to his hometown in Luxembourg. Refusing to fight on the German side, he chooses a clandestine life and joins other deserters in an abandoned mine

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Armand

Vote Count5

Gourou

The rise of a self-help guru who turns out to be a toxic personality.

Release Date2026-01-28

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Charactersd Mathieu Vasseur

Feuilleman

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Charactersd Feuilleman

Quotidien

Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.

Release Date2016-09-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

LOL : Qui rit, sort !

Philippe Lacheau has invited 10 actors and comedians to live a unique experience in a grandiose setting. There is only one rule to follow for the next 6 hours: if you laugh, you are eliminated. The 10 comedians will have to keep cool despite having to try and make each other laugh. The winner will get 50 000 euros for the charity he/she represents. Nothing is off limits!

Release Date2021-04-23

Charactersd Self

Episode Count7

Vote Count56

Beau geste

Release Date2023-01-22

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

As An Aside

The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.

Release Date2001-09-08

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Release Date2023-09-22

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Têtàtête(s)

Release Date2023-10-01

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Hot Ones

Watch Kyan Khojandi interview celebrities as they burn their tastebuds!

Release Date2022-04-12

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

True Story with

A six-part series with YouTube stars Natoo, Cyprien, Norman, Ludovik, Mcfly & Carlito, meeting with French celebrity guests such as Jonathan Cohen, Antoine de Caunes and Julie Gayet.

Release Date2020-06-26

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Burger Quiz

A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.

Release Date2001-08-27

Charactersd Self

Episode Count4

Vote Count22

Loris Giuliano en balade

Release Date2024-05-02

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself

A portrait of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, creator, for three decades, of an imperfect, astonishing, fascinating, damaged and poetic work.

Release Date2023-09-04

Charactersd Self - Actor

Vote Count5

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary

Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.

Release Date2014-11-04

Charactersd Self

Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran

Release Date2015-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

On a volé ma VF

Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgane Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Release Date2024-06-22

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count6

The Audition

François attends a casting. After a very strange interview, he finds out he is actually at the heart of the mysterious set up in which he is forced to take part...

Release Date2013-12-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28