Niels Arestrup
Born: 1949-02-08 in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Died: 2024-12-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
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
- Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
2018
- At Eternity's Gate as Madman
2017
- See You Up There as Marcel Péricourt
- Return to Montauk as Walter
2016
- Baron Noir as Francis Laugier
2015
- Capitaine Marleau as Hervé Gerfaut
- By the Sea as Michel
- So Long Africa as Jacques
2013
- The French Minister as Claude Maupas
2012
- Our Children as André Pinget
2011
- War Horse as Grandfather
- You Will Be My Son as Paul de Marseul
2010
- Sarah's Key as Jules Dufaure
- The Big Picture as Bartholomé
- Small World as Thomas Senn
- Behind Bars as Self
2008
- Le Temps des cerises ... (Theatre Play)
2007
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Roussin
- The Candidate as Georges
2006
- Fragments of Antonin as le professeur Lantier
2005
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Robert Seyr
2002
- A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- Speak to Me of Love as Richard
- Brook by Brook as Self
2000
- Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
- 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
1991
- Meeting Venus as Zoltan Szanto
1989
- Manon Roland as Danton
- Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone
1988
- La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
- Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
1987
- Doux amer as Jean
- Lorfou as Angelo
- La Rumba as Detaix
- Charlie Dingo as William
1985
- Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- Diesel as Nelson
- Among Wolves as Mike
1984
- The Future Is Woman as Gordon
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- La danse de mort as Kurt
- The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as Rastignac
- Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- One Man's War as Narrator
1981
- Alone as Jean
1980
- La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
1979
- Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
- Memoirs of a French Whore as André
1978
- The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
1977
- Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
- The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
- Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
1976
- A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
- Lumière as Nano
- The Big Night as Léon
- Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
1974
- Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
- Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
- Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
- La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self