Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor
Born December 8, 1977 in Antwerp, Belgium
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).
Filmography
The Way of the Wind
Peter
Ruin
Supergirl
Krem
The Old Guard 2
Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
The Regime
Corporal Herbert Zubak
Django
Django
Amsterdam
Detective Lem Getweiler
De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach
Self
Sergio Across Borders
Self
Brothers by Blood
Peter Flood
Zuur
Lockdown
Jurgen
The Old Guard
Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
The Laundromat
Maywood
A Hidden Life
Captain Herder
The Mustang
Roman Coleman
Kursk
Mikhail Averin
Close Enemies
Manuel Marco
Red Sparrow
Vanya Egorov
Racer and the Jailbird
Gino 'Gigi'
Our Souls at Night
Gene
The Danish Girl
Hans
A Bigger Splash
Paul De Smedt
Disorder
Vincent
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak
A Little Chaos
Andre Le Notre
Suite Française
Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
The Loft
Philip Trauner
The Drop
Eric Deeds
Antwerp - The City Game
Self
Blood Ties
Anthony Scarfo
Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard
Self
Death of a Shadow
Nathan Rijckx
Rust and Bone
Alain 'Ali' van Versch
The Gang of Oss
Ties van Heesch
The President
Boyko
Bullhead
Jacky Vanmarsenille
Injury Time
Van Dessel
The Pack
The Gothic Sham
Pulsar
Samuel Verbist
My Queen Karo
Raven
Los Zand
Vincent Vandeweghe
Afterday
Jef
The Emperor of Taste
Alfred Lenaerts
Loft
Filip Willems
Tunnelrat
John Atkins
Left Bank
Bobby
DP/30: Conversations About Movies
Self
Nadine
Cornee
The Muse
Black Book
Joop
Love Belongs to Everyone
Dennis
The One Thing to Do
Edward Monskii
Gender
Ellektra
DJ Cosmonaut X
Any Way the Wind Blows
Chouki
Girl
Oscar
The Blue Rose
Lover
Stille Waters
Rechercheur
Flikken
Jens Goossens
Priest Daens
Wannes Scholliers