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
- 2022 · Black Butterflies as Albert Desiderio
- 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 · 96 heures as Victor Kancel
- 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 · Brook by Brook as Self
- 2000 · Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp
- 1992 · La Femme abandonnée as Oskar de Wilno
- 1989 · Manon Roland as Danton
- 1987 · Doux amer as Jean
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · La Danse de mort as Kurt
- 1979 · Memoirs of a French Whore as André
- 1979 · Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
- 1978 · The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
- 1977 · Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
- 1976 · The Big Night as Léon
- 1976 · A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
- 1976 · Lumière as Nano
- 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
- 2023 · Divertimento as Sergiu Celibidache
- 2021 · Villa Caprice as Luc Germon
- 2021 · Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
- 2015 · So Long Africa as Jacques
- 2014 · The Dune as Ruben
- 2010 · Behind Bars as Self
- 2007 · The Candidate as Georges
- 2002 · A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- 2000 · Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
- 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
- 1991 · Meeting Venus as Zoltan Szanto
- 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
- 1985 · Diesel as Nelson
- 1985 · Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- 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 · La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- 1982 · Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- 1981 · Alone as Jean
- 1980 · Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
- 1980 · La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- 1978 · lulu as Schwarz
- 1977 · Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
- 1977 · The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
- 1976 · Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
- 1974 · Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
- 1974 · La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda