Matthias Schoenaerts

Biography:

A Belgian actor, Matthias Schoenaerts was born on December 8, 1977. At the age of 13, he starred in his first motion picture, Daens (1992), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. His most well-known roles include those of Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominee Rust and Bone (2012), for which he received the César Award for Most Promising Actor, Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), and Filip in Loft (2008). He portrayed Uncle Vanya in Red Sparrow (2018), Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl (2015), Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Bruno von Falk in Suite Française (2015), and Eric Deeds in The Drop (2014). For his portrayal of a PTSD-afflicted ex-soldier in Disorder (2015) and his role as an inmate training a wild horse in The Mustang (2019), Schoenaerts won praise from critics. He received the French title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2015.