Back in front of Nicolas Bedos’ camera in Masquerade after OSS 117: Red alert in black AfricaPierre Niney was the star in front of the camera of Audrey Crespo-Mara for the portrait of seven to eight on TF1 this October 23, 2022. The journalist interviewed the 33-year-old actor, former member of the Comédie-Française with a meteoric rise. This Caesarized actor and father of Lola and Billie with Natasha Andrews seems to have kept his feet on the ground – and in the countryside where he now lives – despite his powerful success and assumes his singular physique without difficulty.
Born in the Hauts-de-Seine, in Ile-de-France, from a father who was a professor of documentary cinema at the École Normale Supérieure and at La Fémis and a mother who was a professor of visual arts and author of leisure manuals. creative, he is the middle child, with an older sister and a younger one. From the Ile-de-France region, he also has more distant origins through his grandmother who comes from Cairo and who transmitted to his father a “egyptian profile“.
Close to his family and his parents who gave him a solid education, he also shares with them this nose so drawn, especially from his father. During childhood where every facial feature is scrutinized, he did not have a hard time having a physique far from the standards of young people in American series: “I have never complexed too much on my physique. Small, I found that my ears stick out. When I was in college, it bothered me a bit. But that never stopped me. In the family, we have a family nose that I share with my sisters, my mother, but especially with my father and my grandmother.“
We were overwhelmed.
His face and his talent have given him access to the most prized places in French cinema. So much so that it is sometimes put forward, against its will. Indeed, he made the controversy of the specialized magazine French Film, posing with his peers, all men with the subtitle “Reconquest”. “I totally agree [avec ce qui a été dit]. The nullity of this front page was aberrant“, entrusted Pierre Niney on France Inter in the emission Totemic. He said to himself “landed”, specifying that none of the personalities who pose knew that they were going to be presented as such standards of French cinema. The magazine, for its part, apologized for this 100% male coverage.