Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a French-Canadian actor based in Paris for most of his career. He had his breakthrough in Xavier Dolans I Killed My Mother (2009) and gained international recognition with Dolans Heartbeats (2010). He won the Trophe Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the Csar Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017 for Dark Inclusion (2016). In 2019, he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.