

Acting
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.
Highest rated appearances
as Paul

Sympathy for the Devil
as Paul

A Brother’s Love
as Alex

Sibyl
as Gabriel

Curiosa
as Pierre Louÿs

Bad Poems
as Henri

An Impossible Love
as Philippe

The Black Book
as Marquis Lusault

One Nation, One King
as Saint-Just

Phratry

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
as Jean

Sleeping Beauty
as Le prince Egon de Létonia

Dalida
as Jean Sobieski

Polina
as Adrien

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
as Self

Dark Diamond
as Pier Ulmann

Kokoro
as Nathan

The Art Dealer
as Klaus

Gemma Bovery
as Hervé de Bressigny

Voice Over
as Antoine

Quantum Love
as Hugo

Collisions
as Henri

Métamorphoses
as The Disenchanted / The Monster

Opium
as Maurice Sachs

You and the Night
as Matthias

Chaos
as Thibaut

Atomic Age
as Theo

Miao Shan and the Minotaur
as Magician

The Raptures
as Etienne

Val d'or
as Théo

Another World
as Louis

The Howling: Reborn
as Roland

2 Frogs in the West
as Max

Fatal
as Lawyer in the car

Heartbeats
as Nicolas