
Acting
Born June 18, 1987 · Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night. Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017. He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).

De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge (Film 2)
2026

De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (Film 1)
2026

Haunted Minds
2025

Agent Zero
2025

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
2024

Spirit of Ecstasy
2023

Coup de Chance
2023

Before We Collapse
2023

Apaches: Gang of Paris
2023

South Sentinel
2022

Icarus
2022

Futura
2021

Suzanna Andler
2021

Altered Innocence Vol. 1
2021

Love Affair(s)
2020

Back Home
2020

Sympathy for the Devil
2019

A Brother’s Love
2019

Sibyl
2019

Curiosa
2019

Bad Poems
2018

An Impossible Love
2018

The Black Book
2018

One Nation, One King
2018

Phratry
2018

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
2018

Sleeping Beauty
2017

Dalida
2017

Polina
2016

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016

Dark Diamond
2016

Kokoro
2016

The Art Dealer
2015

Les vacances continuent
2015

Gemma Bovery
2014

Voice Over
2014

Quantum Love
2014

Collisions
2014

Métamorphoses
2014

Opium
2013

You and the Night
2013

Chaos
2012

Atomic Age
2012

Miao Shan and the Minotaur
2012

The Raptures
2012

Val d'or
2011

Another World
2011

The Howling: Reborn
2011

2 Frogs in the West
2010

Fatal
2010

Heartbeats
2010

Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2009

Taking the Plunge 2
2009

I Killed My Mother
2009

Everything Is Fine
2008

The Taste of Nothingness
2007

Le petit oiseau va sortir
2006