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
- 2015 · So Long Africa as Jacques
- 2014 · 96 heures as Victor Kancel
- 2014 · Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz
- 2011 · War Horse as Grandfather
- 2010 · Sarah's Key as Jules Dufaure
- 2010 · Behind Bars as Self
- 2009 · Farewell as Vallier
- 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 · Speak to Me of Love as Richard
- 2002 · A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- 2000 · Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp
- 1992 · La Femme abandonnée as Oskar de Wilno
- 1988 · Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
- 1987 · Doux amer as Jean
- 1985 · Diesel as Nelson
- 1985 · Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · La danse de mort as Kurt
- 1981 · Alone as Jean
- 1979 · Memoirs of a French Whore as André
- 1979 · Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
- 1978 · The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
- 1976 · The Big Night as Léon
- 1976 · A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
- 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
- 2014 · The Dune as Ruben
- 2013 · The French Minister as Claude Maupas
- 2012 · Our Children as André Pinget
- 2011 · You Will Be My Son as Paul de Marseul
- 2010 · Small World as Thomas Senn
- 2010 · The Big Picture as Bartholomé
- 2007 · The Candidate as Georges
- 2006 · Fragments of Antonin as le professeur Lantier
- 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 · 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 · La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- 1982 · Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- 1980 · Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
- 1980 · La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- 1977 · Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
- 1977 · The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
- 1977 · Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
- 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