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Matthias Schoenaerts

Acting Born Dec 8, 1977 Antwerp, Belgium 24 credits

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

Film

Supergirl

as Krem
Film

Red Sparrow

as Vanya Egorov
Film

The Old Guard

as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker

Full filmography

  • Supergirl (2026) as Krem
  • The Drop (2014) as Eric Deeds
  • Red Sparrow (2018) as Vanya Egorov
  • The Loft (2014) as Philip Trauner
  • The Old Guard 2 (2025) as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
  • The Old Guard (2020) as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
  • The Danish Girl (2015) as Hans
  • The Regime (2024) as Corporal Herbert Zubak
  • De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022) as Self
  • Flikken (1999) as Jens Goossens
  • Django (2023) as Django
  • Amsterdam (2022) as Detective Lem Getweiler
  • Black Book (2006) as Joop
  • The Laundromat (2019) as Maywood
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) as Gabriel Oak
  • Suite Française (2015) as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
  • Kursk (2018) as Mikhail Averin
  • A Hidden Life (2019) as Captain Herder
  • A Little Chaos (2015) as Andre Le Notre
  • A Bigger Splash (2015) as Paul De Smedt
  • Blood Ties (2013) as Anthony Scarfo
  • Brothers by Blood (2021) as Peter Flood
  • The Mustang (2019) as Roman Coleman
  • Rust and Bone (2012) as Alain 'Ali' van Versch