Acting

Niels Schneider

Born 1987-06-18 · Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Niels Schneider (born June 18, 1987) is a French-Canadian actor. He had his breakthrough role in Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (2009), and gained international recognition in Dolan's Heartbeats (2010). In 2011, he won the Trophée Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance in Dark Inclusion (2016). In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He has been living and working based in Paris for most of his career.

Credits

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Think Good
as Jacques
2026
The Unknown
as David Zimmerman / Malia
2026
De Gaulle: Liberté
as Général Leclerc
2026
De Gaulle: Résistance
as Général Leclerc
2026
Tout simplement fan
as Niels Schneider
2026
Haunted Minds
as Skender
2025
Agent Zero
as Alex
2025
The World Doesn’t Exist
as Adam
2024
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
as Niels Schneider
2024
Spirit of Ecstasy
as Augustin
2023
Of Money and Blood
as Jérôme Attias
2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
as Self - Guest
2023
Coup de chance
as Alain Aubert
2023
Before We Collapse
as Tristan
2023
Apaches: Gang of Paris
as Jésus
2023
Beau geste
as Self
2023
The Rite
Director
2022
The Rite
Writer
2022
South Sentinel
as Christian Lafayette
2022
Icarus
as Thésée (voice)
2022
Totems
as Francis Mareuil
2022
Futura
as Louis
2021
Suzanna Andler
as Michel
2021
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
as The Cheating Boyfriend
2021
We're Live
as Self
2020
Love Affair(s)
as Maxime
2020
Back Home
as Thomas
2020
Sympathy for the Devil
as Paul
2019
A Brother’s Love
as Alex
2019
Sibyl
as Gabriel
2019
Curiosa
as Pierre Louÿs
2019
Bad Poems
as Henri
2018
Ad Vitam
as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
2018
An Impossible Love
as Philippe
2018
The Black Book
as Marquis Lusault
2018
One Nation, One King
as Saint-Just
2018
Phratry
2018
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
as Jean
2018
Paris etc.
as Léo
2017
Dans les médias
2017
Sleeping Beauty
as Le prince Egon de Létonia
2017
Dalida
as Jean Sobieski
2017
Polina
as Adrien
2016
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
as Self
2016
Quotidien
as Self - Guest
2016
Dark Diamond
as Pier Ulmann
2016
Kokoro
as Nathan
2016
The Art Dealer
as Klaus
2015
Gemma Bovery
as Hervé de Bressigny
2014
Voice Over
as Antoine
2014
Quantum Love
as Hugo
2014
Collisions
as Henri
2014
Métamorphoses
as The Disenchanted / The Monster
2014
Opium
as Maurice Sachs
2013
You and the Night
as Matthias
2013
Odysseus
as Telemaco
2013
Chaos
as Thibaut
2012
Atomic Age
as Theo
2012
Miao Shan and the Minotaur
as Magician
2012
The Raptures
as Etienne
2012
Clash
as Raphaël
2012
Val d'or
as Théo
2011
Another World
as Louis
2011
The Howling: Reborn
as Roland
2011
2 Frogs in the West
as Max
2010
Fatal
as Lawyer in the car
2010
Heartbeats
as Nicolas
2010
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
as Sacha (soldat)
2009
C à vous
as Self - Guest
2009
Taking the Plunge 2
as Anna's Brother
2009
I Killed My Mother
as Eric
2009
Everything Is Fine
as Sacha
2008
The Taste of Nothingness
as Ami de Julien
2007
Le petit oiseau va sortir
as Soldier
2006
The Man from Snowy River
as Delivery Man
1994
The Perfect Boyfriend
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Au nom du père
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Spiritual World
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Cancel
as Gabriel Roche
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