Portrait of Matthias Schoenaerts

Matthias Schoenaerts

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthias Schoenaerts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: December 8, 1977

Place of Birth: Antwerp, Belgium

Filmography

2026
Supergirl

as Krem of the Yellow Hills

2025
The Old Guard 2

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

2024
The Regime

as Corporal Herbert Zubak

2023
Django

as Django

2022
Amsterdam

as Detective Lem Getweiler

2021
Lockdown

as Jurgen

2021
2020
Brothers by Blood

as Peter Flood

2020
The Old Guard

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

2019
The Laundromat

as Maywood

2019
A Hidden Life

as Captain Herder

2019
The Mustang

as Roman Coleman

2018
Kursk

as Mikhail Averin

2018
Close Enemies

as Manuel Marco

2018
Red Sparrow

as Vanya Egorov

2017
2015
2015
A Bigger Splash

as Paul De Smedt

2015
Disorder

as Vincent

2015
2015
A Little Chaos

as Andre Le Notre

2015
Suite Française

as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk

2014
The Loft

as Philip Trauner

2014
The Drop

as Eric Deeds

2013
Blood Ties

as Anthony Scarfo

2012
Death of a Shadow

as Nathan Rijckx

2012
Rust and Bone

as Alain 'Ali' van Versch

2011
The Gang of Oss

as Ties van Heesch

2011
2011
Bullhead

as Jacky Vanmarsenille

2010
Injury Time

as Van Dessel

2010
The Pack

as The Gothic Sham

2010
Pulsar

as Samuel Verbist

2009
2009
Los Zand

as Vincent Vandeweghe

2009
Afterday

as Jef

2008
The Emperor of Taste

as Alfred Lenaerts

2008
Loft

as Filip Willems

2008
Tunnelrat

as John Atkins

2008
Left Bank

as Bobby

2007
Nadine

as Cornee

2006
Black Book

as Joop

2005
The One Thing to Do

as Edward Monskii

2004
2004
Ellektra

as DJ Cosmonaut X

2002
Girl

as Oscar

2002
2001
Stille Waters

as Rechercheur

1999
Flikken

as Jens Goossens

1992
Priest Daens

as Wannes Scholliers