Niels Schneider
- Acting
- June 18, 1987 · Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Think Good · Jacques
- The Unknown · David Zimmerman / Malia
- De Gaulle: Liberté · Général Leclerc
- De Gaulle: Résistance · Général Leclerc
- Tout simplement fan · Niels Schneider
- Haunted Minds · Skender
- Agent Zero · Alex
- The World Doesn’t Exist · Adam
- Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 · Niels Schneider
- Spirit of Ecstasy · Augustin
- Of Money and Blood · Jérôme Attias
- Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma · Self
- Coup de chance · Alain Aubert
- Before We Collapse · Tristan
- Apaches: Gang of Paris · Jésus
- Beau geste · Self
- The Rite · Director, Writer
- South Sentinel · Christian Lafayette
- Icarus · Thésée (Voice)
- Totems · Francis Mareuil
- Futura · Louis
- Suzanna Andler · Michel
- Altered Innocence Vol. 1 · The Cheating Boyfriend
- We're Live · Self
- Love Affair(s) · Maxime
- Back Home · Thomas
- Sympathy for the Devil · Paul
- A Brother’s Love · Alex
- Sibyl · Gabriel
- Curiosa · Pierre Louÿs
- Bad Poems · Henri
- Ad Vitam · Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
- An Impossible Love · Philippe
- The Black Book · Marquis Lusault
- One Nation, One King · Saint-Just
- Phratry
- The Most Assassinated Woman in the World · Jean
- Paris etc. · Léo
- Dans les médias
- Sleeping Beauty · Le prince Egon de Létonia
- Dalida · Jean Sobieski
- Polina · Adrien
- Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible · Self
- Quotidien · Self
- Dark Diamond · Pier Ulmann
- Kokoro · Nathan
- The Art Dealer · Klaus
- Gemma Bovery · Hervé de Bressigny
- Voice Over · Antoine
- Quantum Love · Hugo
- Collisions · Henri
- Métamorphoses · The Disenchanted / The Monster
- Opium · Maurice Sachs
- You and the Night · Matthias
- Odysseus · Telemaco
- Chaos · Thibaut
- Atomic Age · Theo
- Miao Shan and the Minotaur · Magician
- The Raptures · Etienne
- Clash · Raphaël
- Val d'or · Théo
- Another World · Louis
- The Howling: Reborn · Roland
- 2 Frogs in the West · Max
- Fatal · Lawyer in the car
- Heartbeats · Nicolas
- Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees · Sacha (soldat)
- C à vous · Self
- Taking the Plunge 2 · Anna's Brother
- I Killed My Mother · Eric
- Everything Is Fine · Sacha
- The Taste of Nothingness · Ami de Julien
- Le petit oiseau va sortir · Soldier
- The Man from Snowy River · Delivery Man
- The Perfect Boyfriend
- Au nom du père
- Spiritual World
- Cancel · Gabriel Roche