Niels Schneider
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).
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Acting History
2026
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom as Général Leclerc
2026La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer as Général Leclerc
2025Haunted Minds as Skender
2025Badh as Alex
2024The World Doesn’t Exist as Adam
2023Spirit of Ecstasy as Augustin
2023Of Money and Blood as Jérôme Attias
2023Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
2023Coup de Chance as Alain Aubert
2023Before We Collapse as Tristan
2023Apaches: Gang of Paris as Jésus
2023Beau geste as Self
2022South Sentinel as Christian Lafayette
2022Icarus as Thésée
2022Totems as Francis Mareuil
2021Futura as Louis
2021Suzanna Andler as Michel
2021Altered Innocence Vol. 1 as The Cheating Boyfriend
2020We're Live as Self
2020Love Affair(s) as Maxime
2020Back Home as Thomas
2019Sympathy for the Devil as Paul
2019A Brother’s Love as Alex
2019Sibyl as Gabriel
2019Curiosa as Pierre Louÿs
2018Bad Poems as Henri
2018Ad Vitam as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
2018An Impossible Love as Philippe
2018The Black Book as Marquis Lusault
2018One Nation, One King as Saint-Just
2018Phratry
2018The Most Assassinated Woman in the World as Jean
2017Paris etc. as Léo
2017Dans les médias
2017Sleeping Beauty as Le prince Egon de Létonia
2017Dalida as Jean Sobieski
2016Polina as Adrien
2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self
2016Dark Diamond as Pier Ulmann
2016Kokoro as Nathan
2015The Art Dealer as Klaus
2015Les vacances continuent
2014Gemma Bovery as Hervé de Bressigny
2014Voice Over as Antoine
2014Quantum Love as Hugo
2014Collisions as Henri
2014Métamorphoses as The Disenchanted / The Monster
2013Opium as Maurice Sachs
2013You and the Night as Matthias
2013Odysseus as Telemaco
2012Chaos as Thibaut
2012Atomic Age as Theo
2012Miao Shan and the Minotaur as Magician
2012The Raptures as Etienne
2012Clash as Raphaël
2011Val d'or as Théo
2011Another World as Louis
2011The Howling: Reborn as Roland
20102 Frogs in the West as Max
2010Fatal as Lawyer in the car
2010Heartbeats as Nicolas
2009Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees as Sacha (soldat)
2009C à vous as Self - Guest
2009Taking the Plunge 2 as Anna's Brother
2009I Killed My Mother as Eric
2008Everything Is Fine as Sacha
2007The Taste of Nothingness as Ami de Julien
2006Le petit oiseau va sortir as Soldier
1994The Man from Snowy River as Delivery Man
—The Perfect Boyfriend
—Si tu penses bien as Jacques
—The Unknown
—Cardiocleptomania