Niels Schneider
June 18, 1987 (39 years old) in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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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- 2026 · De Gaulle: Liberté as Général Leclerc
- 2026 · De Gaulle: Résistance as Général Leclerc
- 2026 · Tout simplement fan as Niels Schneider
- 2025 · Haunted Minds as Skender
- 2025 · Agent Zero as Alex
- 2023 · Of Money and Blood as Jérôme Attias
- 2023 · Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- 2023 · Coup de chance as Alain Aubert
- 2023 · Beau geste as Self
- 2022 · Icarus as Thésée (voice)
- 2022 · Totems as Francis Mareuil
- 2020 · We're Live as Self
- 2020 · Love Affair(s) as Maxime
- 2020 · Back Home as Thomas
- 2019 · Sibyl as Gabriel
- 2019 · Curiosa as Pierre Louÿs
- 2018 · Bad Poems as Henri
- 2018 · Ad Vitam as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
- 2017 · Paris etc. as Léo
- 2017 · Dans les médias as
- 2017 · Sleeping Beauty as Le prince Egon de Létonia
- 2017 · Dalida as Jean Sobieski
- 2016 · Polina as Adrien
- 2014 · Gemma Bovery as Hervé de Bressigny
- 2014 · Quantum Love as Hugo
- 2014 · Métamorphoses as The Disenchanted / The Monster
- 2013 · You and the Night as Matthias
- 2013 · Odysseus as Telemaco
- 2012 · Chaos as Thibaut
- 2012 · Clash as Raphaël
- 2011 · Val d'or as Théo
- 2011 · The Howling: Reborn as Roland
- 2010 · Heartbeats as Nicolas
- 2009 · C à vous as Self - Guest
- 1994 · The Man from Snowy River as Delivery Man
- Future · Cancel as Gabriel Roche
- 2026 · Think Good as Jacques
- 2026 · The Unknown as David Zimmerman / Malia
- 2024 · The World Doesn’t Exist as Adam
- 2024 · Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 as Niels Schneider
- 2023 · Spirit of Ecstasy as Augustin
- 2023 · Before We Collapse as Tristan
- 2023 · Apaches: Gang of Paris as Jésus
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Christian Lafayette
- 2021 · Futura as Louis
- 2021 · Suzanna Andler as Michel
- 2021 · Altered Innocence Vol. 1 as The Cheating Boyfriend
- 2019 · Sympathy for the Devil as Paul
- 2019 · A Brother’s Love as Alex
- 2018 · An Impossible Love as Philippe
- 2018 · The Black Book as Marquis Lusault
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Saint-Just
- 2018 · Phratry as
- 2018 · The Most Assassinated Woman in the World as Jean
- 2016 · Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self
- 2016 · Dark Diamond as Pier Ulmann
- 2016 · Kokoro as Nathan
- 2015 · The Art Dealer as Klaus
- 2014 · Voice Over as Antoine
- 2014 · Collisions as Henri
- 2013 · Opium as Maurice Sachs
- 2012 · Atomic Age as Theo
- 2012 · Miao Shan and the Minotaur as Magician
- 2012 · The Raptures as Etienne
- 2011 · Another World as Louis
- 2010 · 2 Frogs in the West as Max
- 2010 · Fatal as Lawyer in the car
- 2009 · Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees as Sacha (soldat)
- 2009 · Taking the Plunge 2 as Anna's Brother
- 2009 · I Killed My Mother as Eric
- 2008 · Everything Is Fine as Sacha
- 2007 · The Taste of Nothingness as Ami de Julien
- 2006 · Le petit oiseau va sortir as Soldier
- Future · The Perfect Boyfriend as