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 14 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-nominee 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.

Filmography

• 2026Supergirl — Krem
• 2026Violette
• 2025The Old Guard 2 — Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
• The Regime — Corporal Herbert Zubak
• Django — Django
• 2022Amsterdam — Detective Lem Getweiler
• 2021Brothers by Blood — Peter Flood
• Lockdown — Jurgen
• 2021Zuur
• 2020The Old Guard — Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
• 2019A Hidden Life — Captain Herder
• 2019The Laundromat — Maywood
• 2019The Mustang — Roman Coleman, Associate Producer
• 2018Close Enemies — Manuel Marco
• 2018Kursk — Mikhail Averin
• 2018Red Sparrow — Vanya Egorov
• 2017Our Souls at Night — Gene
• 2017Racer and the Jailbird — Gino 'Gigi'
• 2015A Bigger Splash — Paul De Smedt
• 2015A Little Chaos — Andre Le Notre
• 2015Disorder — Vincent
• 2015Far from the Madding Crowd — Gabriel Oak
• 2015Suite Française — Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
• 2015The Danish Girl — Hans
• 2014The Drop — Eric Deeds
• 2014The Loft — Philip Trauner
• 2013Blood Ties — Anthony Scarfo
• 2012Death of a Shadow — Nathan Rijckx, Associate Producer
• 2012Rust and Bone — Alain 'Ali' van Versch
• 2011Bullhead — Jacky Vanmarsenille
• 2011The Gang of Oss — Ties van Heesch
• 2011The President — Boyko
• 2010Injury Time — Van Dessel
• 2010Pulsar — Samuel Verbist
• 2010The Pack — The Gothic Sham
• 2009Afterday — Jef
• Los Zand — Vincent Vandeweghe
• 2009My Queen Karo — Raven
• 2008Left Bank — Bobby
• 2008Loft — Filip Willems
• The Emperor of Taste — Alfred Lenaerts
• 2008Tunnelrat — John Atkins
• 2007Nadine — Cornee
• 2007The Muse
• 2006Black Book — Joop
• 2006Love Belongs to Everyone — Dennis
• 2006Retour — Maxime
• 2005Another Day — Man
• 2005Daughter — Matthias
• 2005Exit — Anthony
• 2005The End of the Ride — Samuel
• 2005The One Thing to Do — Edward Monskii
• 2004A Message from Outer Space — Frits
• 2004Ellektra — DJ Cosmonaut X
• 2004Gender
• 2004I Want Something And I Do Not Know What — Jaap
• 2003Any Way the Wind Blows — Chouki
• 2003See — Man
• 2002Girl — Oscar
• 2002The Blue Rose — Lover
• Stille Waters — Rechercheur
• Flikken — Jens Goossens
• 1992Daens — Wannes Scholliers
• Animal Sauvage
• Eldorado
• Fleur
• Le Cowboy
• Phénix — Johnny Hallyday
• Ruin
• The Way of the Wind — Peter

Appearances as themselves (5)

• De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach — Self
• Sergio Across Borders — Self
• 2014Antwerp - The City Game — Self
• 2012Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard — Self
• DP/30: Conversations About Movies — Self