Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 8, 1977
Place of Birth:
Antwerp, Belgium
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Matthias Schoenaerts
Biography
Matthias Schoenaerts (/ˈʃoʊnɑːrts/ SHOH-narts, Dutch: [ˈmɑtjɑs ˈsxunaːrts]; born 8 December 1977) is a Belgian actor. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He played Eric Deeds in The Drop (2014), Bruno von Falk in Suite Française (2015), Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl (2015), and Uncle Vanya in Red Sparrow (2018). Schoenaerts received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD in Disorder (2015) and for his performance as an inmate training a wild horse in The Mustang (2019).
In 2015, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow | Krem of the Yellow Hills |
| 2025 | The Old Guard 2 | Sebastien Le Livre / Booker |
| 2022 | Amsterdam | Detective Lem Getweiler |
| 2021 | Zuur | |
| 2020 | Brothers by Blood | Peter Flood |
| 2020 | The Old Guard | Sebastien Le Livre / Booker |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | Captain Herder |
| 2019 | The Mustang | Roman Coleman |
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Maywood |
| 2018 | Kursk | Mikhail Averin |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | Vanya Egorov |
| 2018 | Close Enemies | Manuel Marco |
| 2017 | Racer and the Jailbird | Gino 'Gigi' |
| 2017 | Our Souls at Night | Gene |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Gabriel Oak |
| 2015 | Suite Française | Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk |
| 2015 | A Little Chaos | Andre Le Notre |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl | Hans |
| 2015 | A Bigger Splash | Paul De Smedt |
| 2015 | Disorder | Vincent |
| 2014 | The Drop | Eric Deeds |
| 2014 | The Loft | Philip Trauner |
| 2014 | Antwerp - The City Game | Self |
| 2013 | Blood Ties | Anthony Scarfo |
| 2012 | Rust and Bone | Alain 'Ali' van Versch |
| 2012 | Death of a Shadow | Nathan Rijckx |
| 2012 | Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard | Self |
| 2011 | Bullhead | Jacky Vanmarsenille |
| 2011 | The Gang of Oss | Ties van Heesch |
| 2011 | The President | Boyko |
| 2010 | The Pack | The Gothic Sham |
| 2010 | Pulsar | Samuel Verbist |
| 2010 | Injury Time | Van Dessel |
| 2009 | My Queen Karo | Raven |
| 2009 | Afterday | Jef |
| 2008 | Left Bank | Bobby |
| 2008 | Loft | Filip Willems |
| 2008 | Tunnelrat | John Atkins |
| 2007 | Nadine | Cornee |
| 2007 | The Muse | |
| 2006 | Love Belongs to Everyone | Dennis |
| 2006 | Black Book | Joop |
| 2006 | Retour | Maxime |
| 2005 | The One Thing to Do | Edward Monskii |
| 2005 | The End of the Ride | Samuel |
| 2005 | Daughter | Matthias |
| 2005 | Another Day | Man |
| 2005 | Exit | Anthony |
| 2004 | Ellektra | DJ Cosmonaut X |
| 2004 | Gender | |
| 2004 | I Want Something And I Do Not Know What | Jaap |
| 2004 | A Message from Outer Space | Frits |
| 2003 | Any Way the Wind Blows | Chouki |
| 2003 | See | Man |
| 2002 | Girl | Oscar |
| 2002 | The Blue Rose | Lover |
| 1992 | Priest Daens | Wannes Scholliers |
| Le faux soir | ||
| Phénix | Johnny Hallyday | |
| The Way of the Wind | Peter | |
| Violette | ||
| Ruin |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Regime | Corporal Herbert Zubak |
| 2023 | Django | Django |
| 2022 | De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach | Self |
| 2022 | Sergio Across Borders | Self |
| 2021 | Lockdown | Jurgen |
| 2009 | Los Zand | Vincent Vandeweghe |
| 2008 | The Emperor of Taste | Alfred Lenaerts |
| 2007 | DP/30: Conversations About Movies | Self |