Niels Schneider

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

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

2025

Badh as Alex
Haunted Minds as Skender

2024

The World Doesn’t Exist as Adam

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

The Art Dealer as Klaus
Les vacances continuent

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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