Matthias Schoenaerts
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 8, 1977, Antwerp, Belgium
- Movies
- 58
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.
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Filmography
| 2026 | Violette | Philippe Toussaint |
| 2026 | Supergirl | Krem |
| 2025 | The Old Guard 2 | Sebastien Le Livre / Booker |
| 2022 | Amsterdam | Detective Lem Getweiler |
| 2021 | Brothers by Blood | Peter Flood |
| 2021 | Zuur | |
| 2020 | The Old Guard | Sebastien Le Livre / Booker |
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Maywood |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | Captain Herder |
| 2019 | The Mustang | Roman Coleman |
| 2018 | Kursk | Mikhail Averin |
| 2018 | Close Enemies | Manuel Marco |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | Vanya Egorov |
| 2017 | Racer and the Jailbird | Gino 'Gigi' |
| 2017 | Our Souls at Night | Gene |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl | Hans |
| 2015 | A Bigger Splash | Paul De Smedt |
| 2015 | Disorder | Vincent |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Gabriel Oak |
| 2015 | A Little Chaos | Andre Le Notre |
| 2015 | Suite Française | Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk |
| 2014 | The Loft | Philip Trauner |
| 2014 | The Drop | Eric Deeds |
| 2014 | Antwerp - The City Game | Self |
| 2013 | Blood Ties | Anthony Scarfo |
| 2012 | Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard | Self |
| 2012 | Death of a Shadow | Nathan Rijckx |
| 2012 | Rust and Bone | Alain 'Ali' van Versch |
| 2011 | The Gang of Oss | Ties van Heesch |
| 2011 | The President | Boyko |
| 2011 | Bullhead | Jacky Vanmarsenille |
| 2010 | Injury Time | Van Dessel |
| 2010 | The Pack | The Gothic Sham |
| 2010 | Pulsar | Samuel Verbist |
| 2009 | My Queen Karo | Raven |
| 2009 | Afterday | Jef |
| 2008 | Loft | Filip Willems |
| 2008 | Tunnelrat | John Atkins |
| 2008 | Left Bank | Bobby |
| 2007 | Nadine | Cornee |
| 2007 | The Muse | |
| 2006 | Black Book | Joop |
| 2006 | Love Belongs to Everyone | Dennis |
| 2006 | Retour | Maxime |
| 2005 | The One Thing to Do | Edward Monskii |
| 2005 | The End of the Ride | Samuel |
| 2005 | Exit | Anthony |
| 2005 | Another Day | Man |
| 2005 | Daughter | Matthias |
| 2004 | Gender | |
| 2004 | A Message from Outer Space | Frits |
| 2004 | Ellektra | DJ Cosmonaut X |
| 2004 | I Want Something And I Do Not Know What | Jaap |
| 2003 | Any Way the Wind Blows | Chouki |
| 2003 | See | Man |
| 2002 | Girl | Oscar |
| 2002 | The Blue Rose | Lover |
| 1992 | Daens | Wannes Scholliers |
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