{"id":322794,"date":"2025-12-03T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:02:10","slug":"matthias-schoenaerts-sentenced-to-six-months-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322794\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Schoenaerts Sentenced To Six Months In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRust and Bone and The Old Guard star Matthias Schoenaerts<\/a> has been sentenced to six months in prison following driving offences, according to Belgian news agency Belga.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchoenaerts, who will be seen next year as the villain in DC\u2019s Supergirl movie, was sentenced in absentia after failing to appear in the Belgian court. The ruling related to two instances in 2024 of riding a motorbike without a valid licence, despite being banned from a previous 2021 driving offence.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Belga, the Belgian actor had been required to take remedial exams, but had failed to do so. He has also been fined \u20ac4,000 and has had a new one-year driving ban imposed.<\/p>\n

\n\tCourt spokesperson Luc De Cleir told Belga that the chances of Schoenaerts actually ending up in jail are almost nonexistent. The actor could also appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelgium\u2019s national news agency reported that Schoenaerts has been convicted 11 times of driving offences. It may not be his last. The agency reports that the actor was stopped again by police in Pelt, Belgium, just last month. They report the actor didn\u2019t have a licence, refused a breath test and \u201cbehaved aggressively\u201d when his vehicle was towed. He was detained for several hours. These new facts are said to be under investigation.<\/p>\n

\n\tSchoenaerts is one of Belgium\u2019s most internationally recognised actors. His breakthrough came with 2011 Oscar nominee Bullhead and he has starred in movies including Rust And Bone, The Danish Girl, Red Sparrow, Far From The Madding Crowd, The Old Guard and TV series The Regime.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe have reached out to Schoenaerts\u2019 reps for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rust and Bone and The Old Guard star Matthias Schoenaerts has been sentenced to six months in prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,143002],"class_list":{"0":"post-322794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-matthias-schoenaerts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}