Niels Schneider
Acting
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).
Born: June 18, 1987
Place of Birth: Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For
Of Money and Blood
The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest. Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
Sympathy for the Devil
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
I Killed My Mother
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
Heartbeats
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
The World Doesn’t Exist
Adam Vollmann is 40 years old; he is a journalist for the web editorial staff of a major national daily newspaper. One morning, the portrait of Axel Challe, designated as the main suspect in the murder of a young girl, in Guerches-sur-Isoire, appears on the television screen in front of him. When he insisted to his editor-in-chief to go straight away to report there, he explained to him that he was from there, that he grew up there. What he doesn't say is that he knows Axel Challe well: he was his friend. Even more, Axel Challe was the demigod of his childhood.
Dalida
Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
Bad Poems
33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present.
Icarus
On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (aka the Minotaur). When the King asks Icarus’ father, a famous inventor, to work on a secret project, Icarus realizes his new friend is in danger.
An Impossible Love
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Filmography
as Général Leclerc
as Général Leclerc
as Niels Schneider
as Skender
as Alex
as Adam
as Augustin
as Jérôme Attias
as Self - Guest
as Alain Aubert
as Tristan
as Jésus
as Self
as Christian Lafayette
as Thésée
as Francis Mareuil
as Louis
as Michel
as The Cheating Boyfriend
as Self
as Maxime
as Thomas
as Paul
as Alex
as Gabriel
as Pierre Louÿs
as Henri
as Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
as Philippe
as Marquis Lusault
as Saint-Just
as Léo
as Le prince Egon de Létonia
as Jean Sobieski
as Adrien
as Pier Ulmann
as Nathan
as Klaus
as Hervé de Bressigny
as Antoine
as Hugo
as Henri
as The Disenchanted / The Monster
as Maurice Sachs
as Matthias
as Telemaco
as Thibaut
as Theo
as Magician
as Etienne
as Raphaël
as Théo
as Louis
as Roland
as Max
as Lawyer in the car
as Nicolas
as Sacha (soldat)
as Self - Guest
as Anna's Brother
as Eric
as Sacha
as Ami de Julien
as Soldier
as Delivery Man