Niels Arestrup
February 8, 1949 (77 years old) in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Niels Arestrup was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 as Niels Arestrup
- 2023 · Divertimento as Sergiu Celibidache
- 2022 · Black Butterflies as Albert Desiderio
- 2021 · Villa Caprice as Luc Germon
- 2018 · At Eternity's Gate as Madman
- 2017 · See You Up There as Marcel Péricourt
- 2017 · Return to Montauk as Walter
- 2016 · Baron Noir as Francis Laugier
- 2015 · By the Sea as Michel
- 2015 · Capitaine Marleau as Hervé Gerfaut
- 2014 · Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz
- 2013 · The French Minister as Claude Maupas
- 2012 · Our Children as André Pinget
- 2011 · War Horse as Grandfather
- 2011 · You Will Be My Son as Paul de Marseul
- 2010 · Small World as Thomas Senn
- 2010 · The Big Picture as Bartholomé
- 2010 · Sarah's Key as Jules Dufaure
- 2009 · Farewell as Vallier
- 2009 · A Prophet as César Luciani
- 2007 · The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Roussin
- 2006 · Fragments of Antonin as le professeur Lantier
- 2005 · The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Robert Seyr
- 2002 · Speak to Me of Love as Richard
- 2002 · A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- 1991 · Meeting Venus as Zoltan Szanto
- 1987 · Doux amer as Jean
- 1985 · Diesel as Nelson
- 1985 · Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- 1984 · The Future Is Woman as Gordon
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · La Danse de mort as Kurt
- 1980 · La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- 1979 · Memoirs of a French Whore as André
- 1977 · Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
- 1974 · Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
- 1974 · Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Future · Tiens ferme ta couronne as
- 2021 · Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
- 2015 · So Long Africa as Jacques
- 2014 · The Dune as Ruben
- 2014 · 96 heures as Victor Kancel
- 2010 · Behind Bars as Self
- 2007 · The Candidate as Georges
- 2002 · Brook by Brook as Self
- 2000 · Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
- 2000 · Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp
- 1998 · Rewind as Fabrice Rivail
- 1995 · Les Derniers Jours de la victime as Mendizábal
- 1994 · Délit mineur as Claude
- 1993 · Albert Savarus as Albert Savarus
- 1992 · La Femme abandonnée as Oskar de Wilno
- 1989 · Manon Roland as Danton
- 1989 · Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone
- 1988 · La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
- 1988 · Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
- 1987 · Charlie Dingo as William
- 1987 · Lorfou as Angelo
- 1987 · La Rumba as Detaix
- 1985 · Among Wolves as Mike
- 1982 · One Man's War as Narrator
- 1982 · The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as Rastignac
- 1982 · La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- 1982 · Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- 1981 · Alone as Jean
- 1980 · Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
- 1979 · Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
- 1978 · The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
- 1977 · Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
- 1977 · The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
- 1976 · The Big Night as Léon
- 1976 · A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
- 1976 · Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
- 1976 · Lumière as Nano
- 1974 · Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
- 1974 · La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda