Marie Dompnier is a French actress singer and director born in 1980 in Toulouse HauteGaronne in France best known both in France and internationally for her role as Lieutenant Sandra Winckler in the TV series Witnesses Les Témoins 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 dArt Dramatique 5th arrondissement of Paris Dompnier joined the LÉcole régionale dacteurs de Cannes in 2004 graduating in 2007 Dompnier spent most of her early acting career performing in classical and contemporary works in the theatre Dompnier was part of the company Artéria in residence at the Théâtre du Soleil until 2004 Then Marie joined the collective La Vie brief with whom she played Robert Plankett in 2011 in a staging of Jeanne Candel In 2014 Dompnier was part of the taste of fake and other songs in Jeanne Candel In 2012 she appeared for the first time in the cinema in Dante Desarthes Je fais feu de tout bois before securing a small role in the television series Caïn in 2012 and Détectives in 2013 In 2014 she played the role of Charlotte Poussin in the film Les Gazelles alongside myriad actresses including Camille Chamoux also cowriter She befriended the latter and staged her show born under Giscard Dompnier was spotted during a face camera staging by director Hervé Hadmar and offered her the main role of his TV series Witnesses on France 2 alongside Thierry Lhermitte in 2015 At the time Dompnier was unknown to the general public and the channel was hesitant to accept the casting but the creators confirm their choice Thanks to this role of Lieutenant Sandra Winckler she obtained the Golden FIPA of female interpretation at the Festival International des programmes audiovisuals of Biarritz 2015 The British TV company Channel 4 secured rights to air the first series of French crime TV series Witnesses in 2015 and the BBC acquired rights to broadcast series 2 of Witnesses on BBC 4 and IPlayer 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 denquête in the French feature film Les Choses humaines En The Accusation Source Article Marie Dompnier from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30