Niels Arestrup

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-02-08 (75 years old)

Deathday

2024-12-01

Place of Birth

Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Niels Arestrup

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.

Acting

2009

A Prophet

as César Luciani

1976

2009

Farewell

as Vallier

2007

The Candidate

as Georges

2002

A Private Affair

as Le père de Rachel

2011

You Will Be My Son

as Paul de Marseul

1984

2010

The Big Picture

as Bartholomé

1987

La Rumba

as Detaix

2010

Sarah's Key

as Jules Dufaure

1974

Je Tu Il Elle

as Truck Driver

2010

Small World

as Thomas Senn

2000

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

as Jascha Steg

2002

1987

Lorfou

as Angelo

2012

Our Children

as André Pinget

1985

Diesel

as Nelson

1982

One Man's War

as Narrator

2023

Divertimento

as Sergiu Celibidache

1991

Meeting Venus

as Zoltan Szanto

1987

Doux amer

as Jean

1976

Lumière

as Nano

1976

2013

The French Minister

as Claude Maupas

1998

Rewind

as Fabrice Rivail

1985

2014

Diplomacy

as General Dietrich von Choltitz

2014

96 heures

as Victor Kancel

1982

La Cerisaie

as Lopakhine

1985

2014

The Dune

as Ruben

2006

Fragments of Antonin

as le professeur Lantier

1976

A Second Chance

as Henri Lanot

2015

By the Sea

as Michel

1994

Délit mineur

as Claude

1980

Bruges la Morte

as Hugues Viane

2015

So Long Africa

as Jacques

1980

La Femme flic

as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

1981

Alone

as Jean

1988

Ville étrangère

as Gregor Keuschnig

2017

1988

La Ruelle au clair de lune

as Professeur Hans Klemm

1993

Albert Savarus

as Albert Savarus

2017

See You Up There

as Marcel Péricourt

2018

1978

The Song of Roland

as Le commerçant / Oton

2011

War Horse

as Grandfather

1974

Stavisky...

as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski

1992

La Femme abandonnée

as Oskar de Wilno

2010

2021

Villa Caprice

as Luc Germon

2021

1987

Charlie Dingo

as William

1982

1977

Tauwetter

as Jean-Luc

1982

1989

Manon Roland

as Danton

1989

Production

2007

The Candidate

as Director

2008

Le Temps des cerises

as Theatre Play

2007

The Candidate

as Writer

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