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
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’ 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' 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.