Matthias Schoenaerts is a Belgian actor. He is 47 years old as of 2025. In December 2025, he was punished in Beringen for driving without a valid license.
He was given a six-month jail sentence, had to pay a €4,000 fine, and was banned from driving for one year.
Wife, Parents & Children
According to the reports, he is unmarried. He is currently single, and there’s no public information about his relationship status. He has been linked to someone named Alexandra, but their present situation is kept private.
He was born to his Belgian parents. His mother’s name is Mrs Dominique Wiche, and his father’s name is Mr Julien Schoenaerts. He has an older half brother, Bruno Schoenaerts.
Net Worth, Ethnicity & Religion
According to the reports, his current net worth is approximately $4 million from all of his income sources as of 2025(source). He is of Belgian and of Flemish Ethnicity. His religious faith is not updated yet.
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Early Life, Education
He was born on 8 December 1977 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is 47 years old as of 2025. He grew up speaking both Dutch and French. He also knows English very well, which he picked up by watching American films.
When he was nine years old, in 1987, he acted in a stage play of The Little Prince with his father, who was also the director of the show. As a teenager, Schoenaerts created graffiti art using the name “Zenith.”
He even traveled to New York City to work with the famous Bronx graffiti group TATS CRU.
He was also talented in football and was part of the Belgian club Beerschot AC, but he decided to stop playing professionally when he was 16.
Career Details
He got his first movie role at age 13 in the Belgian film Daens (1992), which was later nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
After finishing his training at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Antwerp, he went on to act in several short films and full-length movies.
In 2011, he starred as Jacky Vanmarsenille in Bullhead, a film directed by Michaël R. Roskam that went on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned him the Magritte Award for Best Actor.
Later, on 22 February 2013, he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in Rust and Bone. In 2012, The New York Times called him “one of the most versatile tough-guy actors today.”
In 2014, he acted with Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, and Marion Cotillard in the thriller Blood Ties, where he played Anthony Scarfo. The movie first premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
On 28 July 2015, he was honored in France as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2019, he acted as Captain Herder in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life and played Maywood in Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat.
In September 2024, he was chosen to play the villain Krem of the Yellow Hills in the DC Universe movie Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock.
His first project as a director, Franky, is a documentary about his childhood friend Franky van Hove, who became an MMA fighter after losing a leg. The film is still being finished in post-production.
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