Gilles Nuytens Biography
Gilles
Nuytens is a multi-talented artist, possessing a keen
passion for cinema. His career especially encompasses writing
& acting. He is a writer with a background in comic-strips,
scriptwriting, photo and computer graphics.
With a passionate and curious nature, Gilles
Nuytens has spent his life observing the world around him,
allowing him to develop a critic sense and a vision of the
world often misunderstood by others. From an early age, he
showed interest in art, especially by creating comic strips.
He made-up hare-brained worlds where his characters evolved,
and this allowed him to develop his creative imagination.
His teachers noticed he had some potential and they made him
pass a class!
By age 18, he starts to study comic strips
at Institut St Luc in Brussels, and this leds him to deepen
his artistic knowledge through scriptwriting, photography
and illustration. He bought his first computer and despite
his inexperienced skills with these machines, he decided to
pursue his studies with web-design classes. It was a good
choice. He ended up winning the first prize in a contest,
and then went on to be hired by a web-design company to not
only design websites, but also train adults and kids.
As a teenager, Gilles Nuytens’ dream
was to become an actor. To be able to come closer to his passion,
he creates a website, “The
Scifi World” where he publishes all his artwork
related to science-fiction. He decides to go further by contacting
movie business people, actors and directors. He is quickly
spotted by influent people in the business and they ask him
to complete different graphic works for them: actors official
websites, convention photos and much more. He is even invited
on STARGATE SG-1 and STARGATE ATLANTIS
sets in Canada!
One of Gilles Nuytens' all time dream was
to become an actor, and after having worked as a graphic artist
for many years, he finally decided to start an acting career.
In 2012, he started theatre classes at an academy in Brussels
in parallel with an acting studio. After many small parts
in movies, he got more interesting jobs in some short movies
such « Zombie Clash », « Legacy
Of Time » or « Bad Gamble ».
But, with the movie « 8
Hours », which he co-produced and co-wrote, he finally
got a true role in a movie. Then, more interesting roles came
up such the role of the mysterious « Casper
» in the French movie « Marc Saint Georges
» and « Doctor Vancopen » in the
webseries « Anatomy of an Antihero ».
Later on, he wanted to deepen his knowledge
of the scriptwriting field. He begins writing different short
stories but the most successfully completed work at this time
is a novel called PASTA
WARS a spoof inspired by Star Wars and the pastafarianism.