Matthias Schoenaerts

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1977-12-08 (48 years old)

Place of Birth

Antwerp, Belgium

Matthias Schoenaerts

Biography

Matthias Schoenaerts (/ˈʃoʊnɑːrts/ SHOH-narts, Dutch: [ˈmɑtjɑs ˈsxunaːrts]; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He played Eric Deeds in The Drop (2014), Bruno von Falk in Suite Française (2015), Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Hans Axgil in The Danis...

Acting

2008

Left Bank

as Bobby

2006

Black Book

as Joop

2011

Bullhead

as Jacky Vanmarsenille

2002

Girl

as Oscar

2008

Loft

as Filip Willems

2010

The Pack

as The Gothic Sham

2009

2011

The Gang of Oss

as Ties van Heesch

2011

2010

Pulsar

as Samuel Verbist

2012

Rust and Bone

as Alain 'Ali' van Versch

2014

The Drop

as Eric Deeds

2012

Death of a Shadow

as Nathan Rijckx

2013

Blood Ties

as Anthony Scarfo

2007

Nadine

as Cornee

2015

2004

Ellektra

as DJ Cosmonaut X

2015

Suite Française

as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk

2015

A Little Chaos

as Andre Le Notre

2014

The Loft

as Philip Trauner

2015

2015

A Bigger Splash

as Paul De Smedt

2015

Disorder

as Vincent

2010

Injury Time

as Van Dessel

2005

The One Thing to Do

as Edward Monskii

2005

2008

Tunnelrat

as John Atkins

2005

Daughter

as Matthias

2005

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Phénix

as Johnny Hallyday

2018

Kursk

as Mikhail Averin

2017

1992

Priest Daens

as Wannes Scholliers

2018

Red Sparrow

as Vanya Egorov

2019

A Hidden Life

as Captain Herder

2009

Afterday

as Jef

2006

Retour

as Maxime

2005

Exit

as Anthony

2004

2003

See

as Man

2002

2018

Close Enemies

as Manuel Marco

2019

The Mustang

as Roman Coleman

2019

The Laundromat

as Maywood

2020

Brothers by Blood

as Peter Flood

2020

The Old Guard

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

2022

Amsterdam

as Detective Lem Getweiler

2021

2025

The Old Guard 2

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

2026

Supergirl

as Krem of the Yellow Hills

Production

2019

The Mustang

as Associate Producer

2012

Death of a Shadow

as Associate Producer

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