Niels Schneider (born June 18, 1987) is a French-Canadian actor. He had his breakthrough role in Xavier Dolan's film I Killed My Mother (2009), and gained international recognition in Dolan's Heartbeats (2010). In 2011, he won the Trophée Chopard Award for Male Revelation of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance in Dark Inclusion (2016). In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. He has been living and working based in Paris for most of his career.

Filmography

• 2026De Gaulle: Liberté — Général Leclerc
• 2026De Gaulle: Résistance — Général Leclerc
• 2026The Unknown — David Zimmerman / Malia
• 2026Think Good — Jacques
• Tout simplement fan — Niels Schneider
• 2025Agent Zero — Alex
• 2025Haunted Minds — Skender
• 2024Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 — Niels Schneider
• The World Doesn’t Exist — Adam
• 2023Apaches: Gang of Paris — Jésus
• 2023Before We Collapse — Tristan
• 2023Coup de chance — Alain Aubert
• Of Money and Blood — Jérôme Attias
• 2023Spirit of Ecstasy — Augustin
• 2022Icarus — Thésée (voice)
• 2022South Sentinel — Christian Lafayette
• 2022The Rite — Director, Writer
• Totems — Francis Mareuil
• 2021Altered Innocence Vol. 1 — The Cheating Boyfriend
• 2021Futura — Louis
• 2021Suzanna Andler — Michel
• 2020Back Home — Thomas
• 2020Love Affair(s) — Maxime
• 2019A Brother’s Love — Alex
• 2019Curiosa — Pierre Louÿs
• 2019Sibyl — Gabriel
• 2019Sympathy for the Devil — Paul
• Ad Vitam — Virgil Berti - Alias Caron
• 2018An Impossible Love — Philippe
• 2018Bad Poems — Henri
• 2018One Nation, One King — Saint-Just
• 2018Phratry
• 2018The Black Book — Marquis Lusault
• 2018The Most Assassinated Woman in the World — Jean
• 2017Dalida — Jean Sobieski
• Dans les médias
• Paris etc. — Léo
• 2017Sleeping Beauty — Le prince Egon de Létonia
• 2016Dark Diamond — Pier Ulmann
• 2016Kokoro — Nathan
• 2016Polina — Adrien
• 2015The Art Dealer — Klaus
• 2014Collisions — Henri
• 2014Gemma Bovery — Hervé de Bressigny
• 2014Métamorphoses — The Disenchanted / The Monster
• 2014Quantum Love — Hugo
• 2014Voice Over — Antoine
• Odysseus — Telemaco
• 2013Opium — Maurice Sachs
• 2013You and the Night — Matthias
• 2012Atomic Age — Theo
• 2012Chaos — Thibaut
• Clash — Raphaël
• 2012Miao Shan and the Minotaur — Magician
• 2012The Raptures — Etienne
• 2011Another World — Louis
• 2011The Howling: Reborn — Roland
• 2011Val d'or — Théo
• 20102 Frogs in the West — Max
• 2010Fatal — Lawyer in the car
• 2010Heartbeats — Nicolas
• 2009I Killed My Mother — Eric
• 2009Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees — Sacha (soldat)
• 2009Taking the Plunge 2 — Anna's Brother
• 2008Everything Is Fine — Sacha
• 2007The Taste of Nothingness — Ami de Julien
• 2006Le petit oiseau va sortir — Soldier
• The Man from Snowy River — Delivery Man
• Au nom du père
• Cancel — Gabriel Roche
• Spiritual World
• The Perfect Boyfriend

Appearances as themselves (6)

• Beau geste — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• We're Live — Self
• Quotidien — Self - Guest
• 2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible — Self
• C à vous — Self - Guest