Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
70
Gender
Male
Birthday
1977-12-08 (48 years old)
Place of Birth
Antwerp, Belgium
Also Known As
Матіас Шонартс
Маттиас Шонартс
馬提亞斯・修奈爾
ماتیاس اسخونارتس
Matthias Schoenaerts
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matthias Schoenaerts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
