Matthias Schoenaerts

Matthias Schoenaerts

Birthday: 1977-12-08

Place of Birth: Antwerp, Belgium

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.

Movies

Love Belongs to Everyone
Love Belongs to Everyone

Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of...

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Left Bank
Left Bank

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of...

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Black Book
Black Book

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gesta...

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Bullhead
Bullhead

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a not...

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Any Way the Wind Blows
Any Way the Wind Blows

Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday, eight people dream of a different life. There is wind a...

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Girl
Girl

Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life w...

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Loft
Loft

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find th...

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The Pack
The Pack

In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-s...

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My Queen Karo
My Queen Karo

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a c...

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The Gang of Oss
The Gang of Oss

Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The ha...

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The President
The President

A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we fol...

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Pulsar
Pulsar

Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads of...

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Rust and Bone
Rust and Bone

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husba...

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The Drop
The Drop

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation t...

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Death of a Shadow
Death of a Shadow

Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new...

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Blood Ties
Blood Ties

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s....

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Nadine
Nadine

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extrem...

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Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very differen...

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Ellektra
Ellektra

Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from he...

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Suite Française
Suite Française

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled ex...

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The Muse
The Muse

An introverted young poet struggles with a writer's block and meets a mysterious girl, who reminds h...

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A Little Chaos
A Little Chaos

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

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The Loft
The Loft

For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital ...

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The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person...

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A Bigger Splash
A Bigger Splash

An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Mar...

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Disorder
Disorder

An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman whi...

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Injury Time
Injury Time

Three Antwerp football fans are in Belgian Wallonia. After one of them is severely beaten up by a gr...

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The One Thing to Do
The One Thing to Do

Edward Monskii, is in a very bad shape, and Botter Gaarman, obviously tired, are in the terrace of a...

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The End of the Ride
The End of the Ride

Samuel is sick. It is hard to refuse a sick man anything. So he gets what he wants, as usual. Althou...

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Tunnelrat
Tunnelrat

Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, the...

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Daughter
Daughter

Marie waited years for her father to return, after he left with the words: "I'll call you"; then she...

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Another Day
Another Day

Short film without dialogue about the intimacy between lovers...

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Phénix
Phénix

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Kursk
Kursk

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accid...

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Priest Daens
Priest Daens

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and wo...

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Racer and the Jailbird
Racer and the Jailbird

When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind o...

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Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that...

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A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...

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Our Souls at Night
Our Souls at Night

Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair...

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Gender
Gender

On June 3rd 1968, Factory member Valeria Solanas shot three bullets in Andy Warhol's chest. Solanas'...

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Exit
Exit

A Christmas tale about a man who suffered a severe traumatic childhood and lives a secluded life, in...

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Retour
Retour

It's summer and Maxime, a cycling enthusiast, is on holiday. The weather is great and country roads ...

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Afterday
Afterday

Emma is in a happy relationship with Jef. But she still meets up with her good friend Thomas to shar...

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I Want Something And I Do Not Know What
I Want Something And I Do Not Know What

In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis w...

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A Message from Outer Space
A Message from Outer Space

Frits, a lonesome, unworldly astronomer, is in pursuit of extraterrestrial life in order to find tru...

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See
See

A man suffers visual impairment due to brain injury....

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The Blue Rose
The Blue Rose

Hans is an imaginative young boy whose life is forever changed by a summer job as a postman. During ...

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Close Enemies
Close Enemies

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to ...

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The Mustang
The Mustang

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles...

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The Laundromat
The Laundromat

When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawye...

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Brothers by Blood
Brothers by Blood

Peter and Michael, raised on the streets of Philadelphia, are the children of Irish mob members, for...

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The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ....

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Antwerp - The City Game
Antwerp - The City Game

"De Pleintjes" is a documentary about Antwerp's street football culture. Rough areas such as Het Kie...

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Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard
Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard

A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques...

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The Old Guard
The Old Guard

Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mys...

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Amsterdam
Amsterdam

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects the...

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Zuur
Zuur

The ultimate confrontation between the acid-mutilated Kim and her ex-boyfriend, revolving door crimi...

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The Old Guard 2
The Old Guard 2

Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe th...

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Supergirl
Supergirl

While celebrating her 21st birthday, Kara Zor-El travels across the galaxy with her dog Krypto, duri...

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Violette
Violette

Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a com...

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Ruin
Ruin

In the rubble of Germany following World War II, a newly released Jewish camp prisoner forms an alli...

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Le Cowboy
Le Cowboy

An ex-con seeking his daughter in France reluctantly takes on a kidnapping job, but develops an unex...

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