Niels Schneider
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1987-06-18 (37 years old)
Place of Birth
Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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).
Acting
De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
as Général Leclerc
De Gaulle – Partie 2
as Général Leclerc
(2025)
(2025)
Haunted Minds
as Skender
(2023)
Coup de Chance
as Alain Aubert
(2023)
Apaches: Gang of Paris
as Jésus
(2023)
Spirit of Ecstasy
as Augustin
(2023)
Before We Collapse
as Tristan
(2022)
Icarus
as Thésée
(2022)
South Sentinel
as Christian Lafayette
(2021)
Suzanna Andler
as Michel
(2021)
Futura
as Louis
(2021)
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
as The Cheating Boyfriend
(2020)
Love Affair(s)
as Maxime
(2020)
Back Home
as Thomas
(2019)
Curiosa
as Pierre Louÿs
(2019)
Sibyl
as Gabriel
(2019)
A Brother’s Love
as Alex
(2019)
Sympathy for the Devil
as Paul
(2018)
An Impossible Love
as Philippe
(2018)
One Nation, One King
as Saint-Just
(2018)
(2018)
The Black Book
as Marquis Lusault
(2018)
Bad Poems
as Henri
(2018)
(2017)
Dalida
as Jean Sobieski
(2017)
Sleeping Beauty
as Le prince Egon de Létonia
(2016)
Polina
as Adrien
(2016)
Dark Diamond
as Pier
(2016)
(2016)
Kokoro
as Nathan
(2015)
The Art Dealer
as Klaus
(2015)
(2014)
Gemma Bovery
as Hervé de Bressigny
(2014)
Quantum Love
as Hugo
(2014)
Voice Over
as Antoine
(2014)
Métamorphoses
as The Disenchanted / The Monster
(2014)
Collisions
as Henri
(2013)
You and the Night
as Matthias
(2013)
Opium
as Maurice Sachs
(2012)
Atomic Age
as Theo
(2012)
The Raptures
as Etienne
(2012)
Chaos
as Thibaut
(2012)
Miao Shan and the Minotaur
as Magician
(2011)
The Howling: Reborn
as Roland
(2011)
Val d'or
as Théo
(2011)
Another World
as Louis
(2010)
Fatal
as Lawyer in the car
(2010)
Heartbeats
as Nicolas
(2010)
2 Frogs in the West
as Max
(2009)
I Killed My Mother
as Eric
(2009)
Taking the Plunge 2
as Anna's Brother
(2009)
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
as Sacha (soldat)
(2008)
Everything Is Fine
as Sacha
(2007)
The Taste of Nothingness
as Ami de Julien
(2006)
Le petit oiseau va sortir
as Soldier
Crew
(2022)
The Rite
Director, Writer