Niels Arestrup

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 75

Gender Male

Birthday February 8, 1949

Day of Death December 1, 2024 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

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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.

Known For

Acting

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2023

as Sergiu Celibidache

2022

(6 episodes) as Albert Desiderio

2021		Villa Caprice as Luc Germon
2021		Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee

2018

as Madman

2017		See You Up There as Marcel Péricourt
2017		Return to Montauk as Walter

2016

(8 episodes) as Francis Laugier

2015		By the Sea as Michel
2015		Capitaine Marleau (1 episode) as Hervé Gerfaut
2015		So Long Africa as Jacques

2014		The Dune as Ruben
2014		96 heures as Victor Kancel
2014		Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz

2013

as Claude Maupas

2012

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
2010		Behind Bars as Self

2009		Farewell as Vallier
2009		A Prophet as César Luciani

2007		The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Roussin
2007		The Candidate as Georges

2006

as le professeur Lantier

2005

as Robert Seyr

2002		Parlez-moi d'amour as Richard
2002		A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel

2000		Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
2000		Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp

1998

as Fabrice Rivail

1995

as Mendizábal

1994

as Claude

1993

as Albert Savarus

1992

as Oskar de Wilno

1991

as Zoltan Szanto

1989		Manon Roland as Danton
1989		Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone

1988		La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
1988		Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig

1987		Doux amer as Jean
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

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		Champs-Elysées (1 episode) as Self
1982		La danse de mort as Kurt
1982		Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim

1981

as Jean

1980		Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
1980		La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

1979		Memoirs of a French Whore as André
1979		Le Tourbillon des jours (6 episodes) as Germain

1978

as Le commerçant / Oton

1977		Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
1977		The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
1977		Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent

1976		The Big Night as Léon
1976		A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
1976		Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
1976		Lumière as Nano

1974		Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
1974		Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
1974		Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves

1972

(1 episode) as Self

Writing

2008

… Theatre Play

2007

… Writer

Directing

2007

… Director

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