Gilles Nuytens Biography (English)
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.
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.