In the Schneider family we would like … the youngest, Vassili. This Monday, April 28, the young man of 26 is appointed to the 36th Molières ceremony in the male revelation category of the year for his performance in the play The next time you bite the dustadapted from the book of the same name written by the humorist Panayotis Pascot. The comedian born and having grown in Canada, decided to follow the steps of his older brothers, Niels and Aliocha very early on. “I started very young in Quebec. I had to be six years old and I started by dubbing. After school, my father took us, my brothers and I, double Anglo-Saxon films in French-Quebecers. It had become my daily life until adolescence (…) I resumed at the age of 15 by being an actor in the film Les Demons by Philippe Lesage. Then I made two or three films in Quebec and I went to France ”, he confides during an interview with Gala.fr, in July 2024.
Attracted by French cinema since his childhood, Vassili Schneider leaves Canada and tries his luck in France.“I took two years before finding a role, because I left zero. No one knew me “he confides to us. The actor’s face begins to be known from 2020, after appearances in the series Possessions, HPI or Mixed. In 2022, he turned in the feature film in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, Almonds from Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. Vassili Schneider’s career finally experienced a meteoric ascent in 2024 with his role in the film, The Comte de Monte-Cristowhere he shares the poster with Pierre Niney. December 14, guest in C the weeklyAliocha Schneider’s brother also confided in his new notoriety: “Yes, I feel like it’s a rocking. Afterwards, I try not to say to myself: ‘Here, my life has changed, all the projects I want to fall on me. This has changed, is that now, I see that there are young people who recognize me in the street (…) because of Tiktok. This is a new relationship with the world. ”
Vassili Schneider very discreet: what do we know about his private life?
Despite his notoriety, Vassili Schneider remains very discreet and has never mentioned his public life publicly. In January, Marine, the big winner of season 12 of the Star Academy, revealed live in the show to have a crush on the actor. The young man then sent him a video message: “Hi Marine, I wanted to send you my little thoughts for your semi-final. I find that you have an extraordinary voice, you will make a great performance. Here, I learned that you followed a little what I was doing, it really makes me happy! ” However, we do not know if he shares his life with someone at present.
Vassili Schneider is the youngest of the famous Schneider siblings. During our interview, the young man confided in his relationship with his brothers, Niels, Aliocha and Volodia, and says that he would like to turn with them: “I would be delighted to be able to play with my brothers, but we need the right project. We will be forced to play brothers if we turn together one day ». In the columns of Libérationlast December, the actor also mentioned the death of his older brother, Vadim, when he was 4 years old at the time: “Nothing is serious when you are 4 years old. It was not until later that I became aware of the difficulty I had of growing up in a bereaved family while living the absence with lightness. I felt excluded, foreign, I was ashamed of not being as affected as the others ”.
