| Birth Name: | Nicolas Van Beveren |
| Birth Date: | 31 August 1982[1] |
| Birth Place: | Machabée, Mahé, Seychelles |
| Nationality: | French, Seychellois |
| Years Active: | 2007–present |
Nicolas Van Beveren (born August 31, 1982)[2] is a French actor and film director best known for starring as Jon in the 2016 science fiction film Virtual Revolution.[3]
Van Beveren was born in Summer 1982[4] [5] to a Seychellois mother and Belgian father in Machabée, a town in Mahé, Seychelles.[6] At the age of 6, he moved to France where he developed interest in acting.[7] He started his career in 2007 after he was called up for an audition in Paris to play a role in a television series on M6, a French TV channel. He has since gone on to feature in various television series and films and has directed four short films over the course of his career.[7] He cites Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington as his influences.[7] Van Beveren appeared in Axe (marque) publicity in 2015.[8]
Nicolas Van Beveren went in Notre Dame private school in Poissy, a little city next to Paris between 1987 and 1991. As a teenager, he went in collège Saint-Stanislas in Osny from 1991 to 1996 then he changed for another collège, Léonard de Vinci, located in Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes from 1996 to 1998 in Île-de-France region. He passed his baccalaureate in the Martin Luther King highschool in Bussy-Saint-Georges from 1998 to 2001.[5] He entered between 1998 and 2000 in the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique of Noisiel.[8]
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2019 | Prise au piège | as Goran, Malika's boyfriend | serie |
| 2017 | Forbidden | Director | short film |
| 2016 | Virtual Revolution | as Jon | — |
| Je suis toujours belle | Director and writer | — | |
| 2015 | On Her Neck | as Guillaume | — |
| Two Lines | Director, producer and writer | short film | |
| Osmosis | as Thomas Melville | TV series (Season 1, Episode 1–10) | |
| Less Is More | as Coach A | TV mini-series | |
| 2014 | The Colour of the Trap | as Jeremy | — |
| Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez | as Sylvain | TV series (10 episodes) | |
| as Raphaël | TV series (Season 1, Episode 1) | ||
| 2013 | Camping Paradis | as Arthur | TV series (Dancing Camping episode) |
| 2012 | Mother and Daughter | as Patrick | TV Mini-Series (Mauvaise Orientation episode) |
| Plus belle la vie | as Kerry | TV series (Season 8, Episode 122) | |
| 2012 | Les Mystères de l'amour | as Antoine | serie (Season 2) |
| 2011 | Zak | as Angel | TV series (Hairman episode) |
| 2009 | Chante! | as Mathieu | TV series (5 seasons) |
| Comprendre & Pardonner | as Lucas | TV series (Révélations episode) | |
| Bob Ghetto | as Denis | TV series | |
| Everybody Dance Club | as Himself | TV series | |
| 2008 | Memory of Power | as Professor Tom Jefferson | short film |