Koen De Bouw

Belgian actor Koen De Bouw studied theatre at the prestigious Antwerp Studio Herman Teirlinck, before making his film debut in 1988 straight out of graduating. Since then, he has played leading parts in more than 30 Belgian and international features as well as a number of internationally awarded television series. Koen has had a long collaboration with top Belgian directors Jan Verheyen and Erik Van Looy, most recently appearing in Van Looy’s  The Prime Minister.

Some of his other film credits include starring in Van Looy’s 2008 international cult hit Loft (2008), Torpedo (2019), Nowhere (2022), the Oscar nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020) and The Last Front (2024) opposite Iain Glen and Sasha Luss.

Koen also starred opposite Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer in the Amazon series The Last Tycoon (2016), created by Billy Ray. In Belgium he can also be seen as “Jasper Teerlinck”, the enigmatic lead of the hit #1 rated Belgian television series Professor T. (2015), running for 3 seasons in Belgium, with remakes in France and Germany and the UK. Some of Koen’s other TV work includes Red Light (2020) opposite Carice Van Houten and Halina Reijn, Niets te melden (2020), Bullets (2018), the Flemish-Dutch coproduction Grenslanders (2019) and De Big Fuck-Up (2025) for Amazon Prime.

Up next Koen will be appearing in Nathalie Teirlinck’s feature ‘Jonah Was Here’ and ‘Cover’ directed by Keith English starring August Diehl and Susanne Wuest.