Niels Arestrup
February 8, 1949 (76 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
- 2023 · Divertimento as Sergiu Celibidache
- 2022 · Black Butterflies as Albert Desiderio
- 2018 · At Eternity's Gate as Madman
- 2017 · See You Up There as Marcel Péricourt
- 2016 · Baron Noir as Francis Laugier
- 2015 · By the Sea as Michel
- 2015 · Capitaine Marleau as Hervé Gerfaut
- 2015 · So Long Africa as Jacques
- 2014 · 96 heures as Victor Kancel
- 2014 · Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz
- 2013 · The French Minister as Claude Maupas
- 2011 · War Horse as Grandfather
- 2011 · You Will Be My Son as Paul de Marseul
- 2010 · Sarah's Key as Jules Dufaure
- 2009 · A Prophet as César Luciani
- 2007 · The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Roussin
- 2005 · The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Robert Seyr
- 2002 · Parlez-moi d'amour as Richard
- 1998 · Rewind as Fabrice Rivail
- 1994 · Délit mineur as Claude
- 1993 · Albert Savarus as Albert Savarus
- 1992 · La Femme abandonnée as Oskar de Wilno
- 1991 · Meeting Venus as Zoltan Szanto
- 1988 · Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
- 1987 · Doux amer as Jean
- 1985 · Diesel as Nelson
- 1985 · Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- 1982 · La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1980 · Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
- 1980 · La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- 1979 · Memoirs of a French Whore as André
- 1979 · Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
- 1977 · Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
- 1976 · Lumière as Nano
- 1974 · Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Future · Tiens ferme ta couronne as
- 2021 · Villa Caprice as Luc Germon
- 2021 · Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
- 2017 · Return to Montauk as Walter
- 2014 · The Dune as Ruben
- 2012 · Our Children as André Pinget
- 2010 · Small World as Thomas Senn
- 2010 · The Big Picture as Bartholomé
- 2010 · Behind Bars as Self
- 2009 · Farewell as Vallier
- 2007 · The Candidate as Georges
- 2006 · Fragments of Antonin as le professeur Lantier
- 2002 · A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- 2000 · Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
- 2000 · Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp
- 1995 · Les Derniers Jours de la victime as Mendizábal
- 1989 · Manon Roland as Danton
- 1989 · Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone
- 1988 · La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
- 1987 · Charlie Dingo as William
- 1987 · Lorfou as Angelo
- 1987 · La Rumba as Detaix
- 1985 · Among Wolves as Mike
- 1984 · The Future Is Woman as Gordon
- 1982 · One Man's War as Narrator
- 1982 · The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as Rastignac
- 1982 · Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- 1982 · La danse de mort as Kurt
- 1981 · Alone as Jean
- 1978 · The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
- 1977 · The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
- 1977 · Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
- 1976 · The Big Night as Léon
- 1976 · A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
- 1976 · Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
- 1974 · Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
- 1974 · Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
- 1974 · La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda