Who is Pierre Coffin?
Pierre Coffin 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.
Pierre Coffin’s Early life, Childhood, & Education
Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin famously known as Pierre Coffin was born on March 16, 1967, in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nikitin), is an Indonesian writer and feminist.
His father’s position required Coffin and his sister, Marie-Claire, to relocate to several Asian countries before settling in a suburb of Paris in the 1970s.
There, he developed an interest in drawing and literature, initially as a means of entertaining himself, as his father would now allow him to watch television at home.
Pierre Coffin was trained at the Gobelins animations school in Paris and started to work at Amblimation, the 2D London-based facility, where he worked on the Seven 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.
