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
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
- Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone
- Manon Roland as Danton
1988
- La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
- Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
1987
- Doux amer as Jean
- Charlie Dingo as William
- Lorfou as Angelo
- La Rumba as Detaix
1985
- Among Wolves as Mike
- Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
- Diesel as Nelson
1984
- The Future Is Woman as Gordon
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
- The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as Rastignac
- One Man's War as Narrator
- La danse de mort as Kurt
- Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
1981
- Alone as Jean
1980
- La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
- Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
1979
- Memoirs of a French Whore as André
- Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
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
- Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
- The Big Night as Léon
1974
- Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
- Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
- Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
- La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self