Niels Schneider
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1987-06-18 (38 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).
Known For
Acting
De Gaulle - Partie 1 : La France Libre
as Général Leclerc
De Gaulle – Partie 2
as Général Leclerc
(2025)
Haunted Minds
as Skender
(2025)
Badh
as Alex
(2023)
Spirit of Ecstasy
as Augustin
(2023)
Apaches: Gang of Paris
as Jésus
(2023)
Coup de Chance
as Alain Aubert
(2023)
Before We Collapse
as Tristan
(2022)
South Sentinel
as Christian Lafayette
(2022)
Icarus
as Thésée
(2021)
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
as The Cheating Boyfriend
(2021)
Futura
as Louis
(2021)
Suzanna Andler
as Michel
(2020)
Love Affair(s)
as Maxime
(2020)
Back Home
as Thomas
(2019)
Curiosa
as Pierre Louÿs
(2019)
Sibyl
as Gabriel
(2019)
Sympathy for the Devil
as Paul
(2019)
A Brother’s Love
as Alex
(2018)
One Nation, One King
as Saint-Just
(2018)
An Impossible Love
as Philippe
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
Bad Poems
as Henri
(2018)
The Black Book
as Marquis Lusault
(2017)
Dalida
as Jean Sobieski
(2017)
Sleeping Beauty
as Le prince Egon de Létonia
(2016)
Dark Diamond
as Pier
(2016)
Polina
as Adrien
(2016)
(2016)
Kokoro
as Nathan
(2015)
The Art Dealer
as Klaus
(2015)
(2014)
Gemma Bovery
as Hervé de Bressigny
(2014)
Voice Over
as Antoine
(2014)
Quantum Love
as Hugo
(2014)
Métamorphoses
as The Disenchanted / The Monster
(2014)
Collisions
as Henri
(2013)
You and the Night
as Matthias
(2013)
Opium
as Maurice Sachs
(2012)
The Raptures
as Etienne
(2012)
Chaos
as Thibaut
(2012)
Atomic Age
as Theo
(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)
Taking the Plunge 2
as Anna's Brother
(2009)
I Killed My Mother
as Eric
(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