Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor
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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Filmography
The Danish Girl
as Hans 2015
The Old Guard
as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker 2020
The Drop
as Eric Deeds 2014
Amsterdam
as Detective Lem Getweiler 2022
The Loft
as Philip Trauner 2014
Rust and Bone
as Alain 'Ali' van Versch 2012
The Laundromat
as Maywood 2019
Black Book
as Joop 2006
Suite Française
as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk 2015
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak 2015
The Old Guard 2
as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker 2025
A Bigger Splash
as Paul De Smedt 2015
A Hidden Life
as Captain Herder 2019
A Little Chaos
as Andre Le Notre 2015
Kursk
as Mikhail Averin 2018
Blood Ties
as Anthony Scarfo 2013