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 pla...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Supergirl
2026
as Krem of the Yellow Hills
While Superman was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents, Kara was left on Krypton. For the first fourteen years of her life, Kara liv...

The Old Guard 2
2025
as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.

Amsterdam
2022
as Detective Lem Getweiler
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...

Zuur
2021
The ultimate confrontation between the acid-mutilated Kim and her ex-boyfriend, revolving door criminal Kasper. The latter hopes for a reduction of th...

Brothers by Blood
2020
as Peter Flood
Peter and Michael, raised on the streets of Philadelphia, are the children of Irish mob members, forever linked by the crimes of their fathers. 30 yea...

The Old Guard
2020
as Sebastien Le Livre / Booker
Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immorta...

The Laundromat
2019
as Maywood
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

A Hidden Life
2019
as Captain Herder
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

The Mustang
2019
as Roman Coleman
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates...

The Mustang
2019
Associate Producer
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates...

Kursk
2018
as Mikhail Averin
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...

Close Enemies
2018
as Manuel Marco
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belo...

Red Sparrow
2018
as Vanya Egorov
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School...

Racer and the Jailbird
2017
as Gino 'Gigi'
When Gino meets racing driver Bénédicte, it's love at first sight. But Gino has a secret. The kind of secret that can endanger their lives.

Our Souls at Night
2017
as Gene
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes...

The Danish Girl
2015
as Hans
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...

A Bigger Splash
2015
as Paul De Smedt
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daugh...

Disorder
2015
as Vincent
An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.

Far from the Madding Crowd
2015
as Gabriel Oak
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep ...

A Little Chaos
2015
as Andre Le Notre
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, ...

Suite Française
2015
as Lieutenant Bruno Von Falk
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...

The Loft
2014
as Philip Trauner
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead bo...

The Drop
2014
as Eric Deeds
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where f...

Antwerp - The City Game
2014
as Self
"De Pleintjes" is a documentary about Antwerp's street football culture. Rough areas such as Het Kiel, Borgerhout, Deurne and Stuivenberg are the back...

Blood Ties
2013
as Anthony Scarfo
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Gritty Melodrama: The Making of “Rust and Bone” by Jacques Audiard
2012
as Self
A lengthy and detailed examination of the making of the 2012 film Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Marion Cotillard and Matthia...

Death of a Shadow
2012
as Nathan Rijckx
Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shad...

Death of a Shadow
2012
Associate Producer
Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shad...

Rust and Bone
2012
as Alain 'Ali' van Versch
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a kille...

The Gang of Oss
2011
as Ties van Heesch
Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.

The President
2011
as Boyko
A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and self-sought fall, Joes l...

Bullhead
2011
as Jacky Vanmarsenille
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.
Injury Time
2010
as Van Dessel
Three Antwerp football fans are in Belgian Wallonia. After one of them is severely beaten up by a group of rival fans, Sid wants to leave immediately...

The Pack
2010
as The Gothic Sham
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back fro...

Pulsar
2010
as Samuel Verbist
Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architect...

My Queen Karo
2009
as Raven
Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Every...

Afterday
2009
as Jef
Emma is in a happy relationship with Jef. But she still meets up with her good friend Thomas to share a strange secluded weekend.

Loft
2008
as Filip Willems
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there a...

Tunnelrat
2008
as John Atkins
Two enemy soldiers get locked up in a tunnel below the World War I front. Sharing the same fate, they need each other to survive.

Left Bank
2008
as Bobby
When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant.

Nadine
2007
as Cornee
A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extreme actions.

The Muse
2007
An introverted young poet struggles with a writer's block and meets a mysterious girl, who reminds him of Monica Vitti.

Black Book
2006
as Joop
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Love Belongs to Everyone
2006
as Dennis
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents ...
Retour
2006
as Maxime
It's summer and Maxime, a cycling enthusiast, is on holiday. The weather is great and country roads are perfect for cycling. But Maxime's holidays are...
The One Thing to Do
2005
as Edward Monskii
Edward Monskii, is in a very bad shape, and Botter Gaarman, obviously tired, are in the terrace of a coffee of a Mediterranean city, ready for a long ...
The End of the Ride
2005
as Samuel
Samuel is sick. It is hard to refuse a sick man anything. So he gets what he wants, as usual. Although his friends aren't thrilled when he asks them t...
Exit
2005
as Anthony
A Christmas tale about a man who suffered a severe traumatic childhood and lives a secluded life, in a small dwelling, abandoned by society. On a Chri...
Another Day
2005
as Man
Short film without dialogue about the intimacy between lovers
Daughter
2005
as Matthias
Marie waited years for her father to return, after he left with the words: "I'll call you"; then she met Mattias.

Gender
2004
On June 3rd 1968, Factory member Valeria Solanas shot three bullets in Andy Warhol's chest. Solanas' extreme feminism and Warhol's eccentric entourage...
A Message from Outer Space
2004
as Frits
Frits, a lonesome, unworldly astronomer, is in pursuit of extraterrestrial life in order to find true friendship, which he does not find on Earth. Whe...

Ellektra
2004
as DJ Cosmonaut X
Ellektra is a story about comfort. The main character Sam finds real comfort and is released from her virtual comfort, drugs. Her true comfort is the ...
I Want Something And I Do Not Know What
2004
as Jaap
In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung specializing...

Any Way the Wind Blows
2003
as Chouki
Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday, eight people dream of a different life. There is wind and music, police and paranoia, gossip and arguing....
See
2003
as Man
A man suffers visual impairment due to brain injury.

Girl
2002
as Oscar
Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide. She rents a room from La...

The Blue Rose
2002
as Lover
Hans is an imaginative young boy whose life is forever changed by a summer job as a postman. During his responsible task, delivering a registered lett...

Priest Daens
1992
as Wannes Scholliers
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vo...
Le faux soir
N/A
Phénix
N/A
as Johnny Hallyday

The Way of the Wind
N/A
as Peter
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.
Violette
N/A
Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...
Ruin
N/A
In the rubble of Germany following World War II, a newly released Jewish camp prisoner forms an alliance with a German soldier as they both seek reven...