Paul Schneider is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. He began acting in the independent films he made with a group of college friends and has since gone on to work with preeminent directors from around the world. Schneider chooses challenging, left-of-center material helmed by strong, diverse directors.
In 2018, Schneider made his Broadway debut in Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, directed by Anna Shapiro.
Film credits include Andrew Dominick (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford), Craig Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl), Zhang Yimou (Flowers Of War), Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants), Sam Mendes (Away We Go), Woody Allen (Café Society), Christophe Honore (Beloved), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Warren Beatty (Rules Don't Apply), Cameron Cr
Paul Schneider is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. He began acting in the independent films he made with a group of college friends and has since gone on to work with preeminent directors from around the world. Schneider chooses challenging, left-of-center material helmed by strong, diverse directors.
In 2018, Schneider made his Broadway debut in Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, directed by Anna Shapiro.
Film credits include Andrew Dominick (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford), Craig Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl), Zhang Yimou (Flowers Of War), Francis Lawrence (Water For Elephants), Sam Mendes (Away We Go), Woody Allen (Café Society), Christophe Honore (Beloved), Simon Stone (The Daughter), Warren Beatty (Rules Don't Apply), Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown), and Tom Bezucha (The Family Stone).
Television credits include Parks And Recreation, American Crime Story, The Newsroom, Chance, The Tunnel, The Divide and Channel Zero: Candle Cove.
In 2014, Schneider became the first American to win Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival for Goodbye To All That and was awarded Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for Jane Campion's, Oscar-nominated Bright Star.
Schneider was one of the New York Times Nifty Fifty and the 2012 RiverRun Film Festival's Emerging Master Honoree. In 2009 Schneider was the recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival Spotlight Award and Variety included him on their list of 2008's Ten Actors to Watch. The same year he wrote and directed the film Pretty Bird. Paul's first feature, starring Paul Giamatti, Billy Crudup & Kristen Wiig, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Schneider earned him a Gotham Award nomination for All the Real Girls, which was a Special Jury Prize Winner at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The script, co-written by Schneider, was also nominated for the Chlotrudis Award.
Schneider received the Innocence Project's Advocate for Social Justice Award in 2014 and serves on their Artist's Committee. He proudly serves on the board of The World Lens Foundation and until recently taught in the Film Department at Columbia University.
