Niels Schneider

ActorDirectorWriter Jun 18 (age 39) Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France 1994–2026 (32 year career)

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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 b…

Known For

Film

I Killed My Mother

Eric

Film

Heartbeats

Nicolas

Film

De Gaulle: Résistance

Général Leclerc

Film

De Gaulle: Liberté

Général Leclerc

Film

Fatal

Lawyer in the car

Film

Coup de chance

Alain Aubert

Film

Dalida

Jean Sobieski

Film

Gemma Bovery

Hervé de Bressigny

Filmography

Acting (77)

Movies (60)

De Gaulle: Résistance

as Général Leclerc

De Gaulle: Liberté

as Général Leclerc

The Unknown

Think Good

as Jacques

Sep 16

Agent Zero

as Alex

Haunted Minds

as Skender

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024

2024

as Niels Schneider

Coup de chance

2023

as Alain Aubert

6.2

Apaches: Gang of Paris

as Jésus

Spirit of Ecstasy

as Augustin

Before We Collapse

as Tristan

Icarus

as Thésée

South Sentinel

as Christian Lafayette

5.7

Altered Innocence Vol. 1

2021

as The Cheating Boyfriend

Futura

as Louis

Suzanna Andler

as Michel

Love Affair(s)

as Maxime

Back Home

as Thomas

Sympathy for the Devil

as Paul

Curiosa

as Pierre Louÿs

Sibyl

as Gabriel

A Brother’s Love

as Alex

An Impossible Love

as Philippe

One Nation, One King

as Saint-Just

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World

as Jean

Bad Poems

as Henri

The Black Book

as Marquis Lusault

Phratry

Sleeping Beauty

as Le prince Egon de Létonia

Dalida

as Jean Sobieski

Polina

as Adrien

Dark Diamond

as Pier Ulmann

Kokoro

as Nathan

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

as Self

The Art Dealer

as Klaus

Voice Over

as Antoine

Quantum Love

as Hugo

Gemma Bovery

as Hervé de Bressigny

6.2

Collisions

2014

as Henri

Métamorphoses

2014

as The Disenchanted / The Monster

You and the Night

as Matthias

Opium

as Maurice Sachs

Miao Shan and the Minotaur

2012

as Magician

Atomic Age

as Theo

Chaos

as Thibaut

The Raptures

as Etienne

The Howling: Reborn

as Roland

Val d'or

as Théo

Another World

as Louis

Heartbeats

as Nicolas

Fatal

as Lawyer in the car

2 Frogs in the West

as Max

Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees

2009

as Sacha (soldat)

I Killed My Mother

as Eric

Taking the Plunge 2

as Anna's Brother

Everything Is Fine

as Sacha

The Taste of Nothingness

2007

as Ami de Julien

Le petit oiseau va sortir

2006

as Soldier

The Perfect Boyfriend

Cardiocleptomania

Television (17)

Cancel

2026

as Gabriel Roche

Tout simplement fan

2026

as Niels Schneider

Tout simplement fan

2026

as Niels Schneider

The World Doesn’t Exist

as Adam

Beau geste

as Self

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

2023

as Self - Guest

Of Money and Blood

as Jérôme Attias

Totems

as Francis Mareuil

We're Live

as Self

Konbini Vidéo Club

Ad Vitam

as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron

Dans les médias

Paris etc.

as Léo

Odysseus

as Telemaco

Clash

as Raphaël

C à vous

as Self - Guest

The Man from Snowy River

1994

as Delivery Man

7.1

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

The Rite

2022

Director

The Rite

2022

Writer