Emilien Vekemans

Emilien Vekemans (born 1992) is a Belgian actor. He is best known to international audiences for his role in the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (2022).

Early life
Vekemans is from Brussels. He studied Drama at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, graduating in 2013 and then completing a Master's in 2014. In 2016, he took a drama course at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and a workshop with James Temp in Berlin.

Career
From 2013 to 2015, Vekemans starred as Max in the YouTube and La Deux comedy web series Typique. He made his feature film debut in the 2014 children's fantasy film The Secret of Arkandias (Le Grimoire d'Arkandias). In 2017, he appeared in the RTBF series La Théorie du Y as well as the Netflix series Transferts.

Vekemans had recurring roles as	Tom Rivière in the first two seasons of ASKIP, le collège se la raconte on France 4 and Roger Lagarrigue in the 1960s high school-set Amazon Prime series Voltaire High (Mixte). He also appeared in the France 2 miniseries Voltaire in Love. He made his English-language debut starring as Gabriel in the 2022 British Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, an adaptation of Sally Green's young adult fantasy novel Half Bad.