Niels Schneider

Born: 1987-06-18 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

De Gaulle: Résistance as Général Leclerc
De Gaulle: Liberté as Général Leclerc
Think Good as Jacques
Tout simplement fan as Niels Schneider
The Unknown as David Zimmerman / Malia

2025

Agent Zero as Alex
Haunted Minds as Skender

2024

The World Doesn’t Exist as Adam
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 as Niels Schneider

2023

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
Beau geste as Self
Coup de chance as Alain Aubert
Of Money and Blood as Jérôme Attias
Spirit of Ecstasy as Augustin
Apaches: Gang of Paris as Jésus
Before We Collapse as Tristan

2022

Totems as Francis Mareuil
Icarus as Thésée (voice)
South Sentinel as Christian Lafayette
The Rite ... (Director)

2021

Altered Innocence Vol. 1 as The Cheating Boyfriend
Suzanna Andler as Michel
Futura as Louis

2020

We're Live as Self
Back Home as Thomas
Love Affair(s) as Maxime

2019

Curiosa as Pierre Louÿs
Sibyl as Gabriel
A Brother’s Love as Alex
Sympathy for the Devil as Paul

2018

Ad Vitam as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
One Nation, One King as Saint-Just
An Impossible Love as Philippe
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World as Jean
Bad Poems as Henri
The Black Book as Marquis Lusault
Phratry

2017

Dans les médias
Paris etc. as Léo
Dalida as Jean Sobieski
Sleeping Beauty as Le prince Egon de Létonia

2016

Quotidien as Self - Guest
Polina as Adrien
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self
Dark Diamond as Pier Ulmann
Kokoro as Nathan

2015

The Art Dealer as Klaus

2014

Gemma Bovery as Hervé de Bressigny
Quantum Love as Hugo
Collisions as Henri
Métamorphoses as The Disenchanted / The Monster
Voice Over as Antoine

2013

Odysseus as Telemaco
You and the Night as Matthias
Opium as Maurice Sachs

2012

Clash as Raphaël
Chaos as Thibaut
Atomic Age as Theo
Miao Shan and the Minotaur as Magician
The Raptures as Etienne

2011

The Howling: Reborn as Roland
Val d'or as Théo
Another World as Louis

2010

Heartbeats as Nicolas
2 Frogs in the West as Max
Fatal as Lawyer in the car