Shirley and Dino

Shirley and Dino
Shirley and Dino at the 30th César Awards
Occupation	Comedian
Years active	1988–present

Corinne Benizio (1962) and Gilles Benizio (1957), stagename Shirley et Dino, are a French comic duo.

Debut

Gilles was born on 1 June 1957 in Villerupt in Meurthe-et-Moselle and Corinne February 12th, 1962 in Dugny, Seine-Saint-Denis.

The couple met at university in 1982, married in 1985, and made their stage debut the same year as the "Achilles Tonic". The duo interprets touching stories of little naïve clowns, this in several shows.^[1] These same years, they create the characters "Shirley and Dino" during an improvisation internship with Ariane Mnouchkine.

Theater

Year	Title	Author	Director	Notes
1988-89	Vive le Music-Hall	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
1990-94	Les Étoiles de Monsieur Edmond	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
1993-94	Shirley et Dino	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
1996	Le Cabaret du Cinquantenaire	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
1997-99	Cabaret Citrouille	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
1999	Le Retour de Shirley & Dino	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
	Nouveau Cabaret de Shirley & Dino	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2000	Shirley et Dino présentent	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2000-01	Variéta	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2002	Le duo	Shirley and Dino	Robert Hossein	Molière Award for Best one man show or Sketches show
2003-04	Les fantaisistes	Shirley and Dino	Robert Hossein (2)
2004-05	Les Dimanches et Lundis de Shirley et Dino	Shirley and Dino	Robert Hossein (3)
2006	Le soldat rose	Louis Chedid	Shirley and Dino
2006-07	30 Exceptionnelles	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2007-09	Les Caméléons d'Achille	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2009	King Arthur	Henry Purcell	Shirley and Dino
2010	Et ReVOILÀ!	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2013-16	Dino fait son Crooner, Shirley fait sa crâneuse	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino
2015	Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse	Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	Shirley and Dino

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2006	Cabaret Paradis	Shirley and Dino	Shirley and Dino

Television

Year	Show	Host	Notes
2001-06	Le plus grand cabaret du monde	Patrick Sébastien	Every month

References

1. Philippe Rège - Encyclopedia of French Film Directors - Volume 1 2009 081086939X- Page 77 "They wrote and directed several shows, including Les Étoiles de Monsieur Édmond (I990), Cabaret Citrouille (I997), Varieta (2000), and Shirley and Dino (2002). They got their big break on TV in Patrick Sébastien's TV show Le plus grand Cabaret du Monde ..."