title: Nicolas van Beveren
text: # Nicolas van Beveren
  
  Nicolas Van Beveren (born August 31, 1982) is a French actor and film director best known for starring as Jon in the 2016 science fiction film Virtual Revolution.
  
  ## Early life and career
  
  Van Beveren was born in Summer 1982 to a Seychellois mother and Belgian father in Machabée, a town in Mahé, Seychelles. At the age of 6, he moved to France where he developed interest in acting. 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. He cites Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington as his influences. Van Beveren appeared in Axe (marque) publicity in 2015.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  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. He entered between 1998 and 2000 in the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique of Noisiel.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  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 | — |
  | 2016 | Je suis toujours belle | Director and writer | — |
  | 2015 | On Her Neck | as Guillaume | — |
  | 2015 | Two Lines | Director, producer and writer | short film |
  | 2015 | Osmosis | as Thomas Melville | TV series (Season 1, Episode 1–10) |
  | 2015 | Less Is More | as Coach A | TV mini-series |
  | 2014 | The Colour of the Trap | as Jeremy | — |
  | 2014 | Sous le soleil de Saint-Tropez | as Sylvain | TV series (10 episodes) |
  | 2014 | Dreams : 1 rêve, 2 vies | 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) |
  | 2012 | 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) |
  | 2009 | Comprendre & Pardonner | as Lucas | TV series (Révélations episode) |
  | 2009 | Bob Ghetto | as Denis | TV series |
  | 2009 | Everybody Dance Club | as Himself | TV series |
  | 2008 | Memory of Power | as Professor Tom Jefferson | short film |
  