Maarten Claeyssens was born on December 24th, 1975 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. He graduated magna cum laude from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp , a supporting role in the feature film Quixote's Island by Didier Volckaert and the lead in Dreamtime, a short by Tom Van Avermaet, which earned him a 'Wildcard', a cash prize awarded by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, with which he made the Oscar nominated short Death of a Shadow.
