Pierre Coffin

Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born November 1, 1967) is a French animator and director. He co-directs the Despicable Me series with Chris Renaud. He is also the primary voice actor of the Minions and young Balthazar Bratt. he was the Indonesian descendant.

Early and Personal life
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 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 Max Guff. He created the characters Pat & Stan for the titular TF1 TV series. In 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal. In 2011, he directed a short film called Brad & Gary. He was the director, screenplayer, and the voice actor for Brad.

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. He will reprise his role as the Minions in Despicable Me 4 and Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Trivia

 * Pierre Coffin is actually a French-Indonesian. His father is a French diplomat and his mother is an Indonesian writer.
 * Coffin lent his voice to all 899 minions in the film, including Kevin, Bob, Stuart, Mel, the Evil Minions and other additional minions.