Niels Schneider

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1987-06-18 (38 years old)

Place of Birth

Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Niels Schneider

Biography

Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night. Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017. He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).

Acting

2014

Collisions

as Henri

2022

South Sentinel

as Christian Lafayette

2023

2008

2010

Heartbeats

as Nicolas

2022

Icarus

as Thésée

2012

Atomic Age

as Theo

2012

Chaos

as Thibaut

2013

2013

Opium

as Maurice Sachs

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De Gaulle – Partie 2

as Général Leclerc

2023

2011

2023

Coup de Chance

as Alain Aubert

2014

Gemma Bovery

as Hervé de Bressigny

2016

2017

Dalida

as Jean Sobieski

2016

Kokoro

as Nathan

2016

Polina

as Adrien

2015

2014

Voice Over

as Antoine

2014

2010

Fatal

as Lawyer in the car

2009

Taking the Plunge 2

as Anna's Brother

2011

2014

Métamorphoses

as The Disenchanted / The Monster

2017

Sleeping Beauty

as Le prince Egon de Létonia

2018

2018

2019

Curiosa

as Pierre Louÿs

2018

The Black Book

as Marquis Lusault

2018

Bad Poems

as Henri

2019

Sibyl

as Gabriel

2021

Futura

as Louis

2011

Val d'or

as Théo

2020

Back Home

as Thomas

2021

2020

2007

The Taste of Nothingness

as Ami de Julien

2021

Altered Innocence Vol. 1

as The Cheating Boyfriend

2012

The Raptures

as Etienne

2025

Haunted Minds

as Skender

2025

Production

2022

The Rite

as Director

2022

The Rite

as Writer

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