Matthias Schoenaerts
Biography
Matthias Schoenaerts is a Belgian actor born on December 8, 1977, in Antwerp, Belgium. He made his film debut at the age of 14 in the film Daens, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Throughout his career, Schoenaerts has appeared in numerous films, accumulating 75 known acting credits. He is recognized for his roles as Filip in Loft, Jacky Vanmarsenille in Bullhead, and Ali in Rust and Bone, a performance for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. His additional film credits include playing Eric Deeds in The Drop, Bruno von Falk in Suite Française, Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd, Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl, and Uncle Vanya in Red Sparrow.
Career overview
Matthias Schoenaerts is a Belgian actor born in Antwerp, Belgium, on December 8, 1977. He made his film debut at the age of fourteen in Daens, which was released in 1992 and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Throughout his career, he has accumulated seventy-five known acting credits in film and television.
He is widely known for portraying Filip in the 2008 film Loft and Jacky Vanmarsenille in the 2011 film Bullhead, which earned an Oscar nomination. In 2012, he starred as Ali in Rust and Bone, a film that received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, and his performance earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor.
His subsequent film work includes playing Eric Deeds in The Drop in 2014, as well as roles in 2015 as Bruno von Falk in Suite Française, Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd, and Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl. In 2018, he appeared as Uncle Vanya in Red Sparrow.
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- Supergirl (2026) as Krem
- Violette (2026)
- The Old Guard 2 (2025) as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
- The Regime (2024) as Corporal Herbert Zubak
- Django (2023) as Django
- De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022) as Self
- Amsterdam (2022) as Detective Lem Getweiler
- Sergio Across Borders (2022) as Self
- Lockdown (2021) as Jurgen
- Brothers by Blood (2021) as Peter Flood
- Zuur (2021)
- The Old Guard (2020) as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
- The Laundromat (2019) as Maywood
- The Mustang (2019) as Roman Coleman
- The Mustang (2019) Associate Producer
- A Hidden Life (2019) as Captain Herder
- Red Sparrow (2018) as Vanya Egorov
- Close Enemies (2018) as Manuel Marco
- Kursk (2018) as Mikhail Averin
- Our Souls at Night (2017) as Gene
- Racer and the Jailbird (2017) as Gino 'Gigi'
- Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) as Gabriel Oak
- The Danish Girl (2015) as Hans
- A Little Chaos (2015) as Andre Le Notre
- Suite Française (2015) as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
- A Bigger Splash (2015) as Paul De Smedt
- Disorder (2015) as Vincent
- The Loft (2014) as Philip Trauner
- The Drop (2014) as Eric Deeds
- Antwerp - The City Game (2014) as Self
- Blood Ties (2013) as Anthony Scarfo
- Rust and Bone (2012) as Alain 'Ali' van Versch
- Death of a Shadow (2012) as Nathan Rijckx
- Death of a Shadow (2012) Associate Producer
- Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard (2012) as Self
- Bullhead (2011) as Jacky Vanmarsenille
- The Gang of Oss (2011) as Ties van Heesch
- The President (2011) as Boyko
- Pulsar (2010) as Samuel Verbist
- The Pack (2010) as The Gothic Sham
- Injury Time (2010) as Van Dessel
- My Queen Karo (2009) as Raven
- Afterday (2009) as Jef
- Los Zand (2009) as Vincent Vandeweghe
- Loft (2008) as Filip Willems
- The Emperor of Taste (2008) as Alfred Lenaerts
- Left Bank (2008) as Bobby
- Tunnelrat (2008) as John Atkins
- DP/30: Conversations About Movies (2007) as Self
- Nadine (2007) as Cornee
- The Muse (2007)
- Black Book (2006) as Joop
- Retour (2006) as Maxime
- Love Belongs to Everyone (2006) as Dennis
- Another Day (2005) as Man
- Daughter (2005) as Matthias
- The End of the Ride (2005) as Samuel
- The One Thing to Do (2005) as Edward Monskii
- Exit (2005) as Anthony
- Ellektra (2004) as DJ Cosmonaut X
- Gender (2004)
- A Message from Outer Space (2004) as Frits
- I Want Something And I Do Not Know What (2004) as Jaap
- See (2003) as Man
- Any Way the Wind Blows (2003) as Chouki
- Girl (2002) as Oscar
- The Blue Rose (2002) as Lover
- Stille Waters (2001) as Rechercheur
- Flikken (1999) as Jens Goossens
- Priest Daens (1992) as Wannes Scholliers
- The Way of the Wind as Peter
- Fleur
- Eldorado
- Ruin
- Phénix as Johnny Hallyday
- Le Cowboy