Niels Schneider
Born: 1987-06-18
• Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Niels Schneider (born June 18, 1987) is a French-Canadian actor. He had his breakthrough role in Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (2009), and gained international recognition in Dolan's Heartbeats (2010). In 2011, he won the Trophée Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance in Dark Inclusion (2016). In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He has been living and working based in Paris for most of his career.
Filmography
Think Good
The Unknown
De Gaulle: Liberté
De Gaulle: Résistance
Haunted Minds
Agent Zero
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
Spirit of Ecstasy
Coup de chance
Before We Collapse
Apaches: Gang of Paris
South Sentinel
Icarus
Futura
Suzanna Andler
Altered Innocence Vol. 1
Love Affair(s)
Back Home
Sympathy for the Devil
A Brother’s Love
Sibyl
Curiosa
Bad Poems
An Impossible Love
The Black Book
One Nation, One King
Phratry
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
Sleeping Beauty
Dalida
Polina
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Dark Diamond
Kokoro
The Art Dealer
Gemma Bovery
Voice Over
Quantum Love
Collisions
Métamorphoses
Opium
You and the Night
Chaos
Atomic Age
Miao Shan and the Minotaur
The Raptures
Val d'or
Another World
The Howling: Reborn
2 Frogs in the West
Fatal
Heartbeats
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
Taking the Plunge 2
I Killed My Mother
Everything Is Fine
The Taste of Nothingness
Le petit oiseau va sortir
No Image
The Perfect Boyfriend