Niels Arestrup

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1949-02-08

Deathday 2024-12-01 (75 years old)

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.

Known For

Actor

2023
Divertimento

as Sergiu Celibidache

2022
Black Butterflies

as Albert Desiderio

2021
Villa Caprice

as Luc Germon

2021
2018
2017
See You Up There

as Marcel Péricourt

2017
2016
Baron Noir

as Francis Laugier

2015
By the Sea

as Michel

2015
So Long Africa

as Jacques

2015
Capitaine Marleau

as Hervé Gerfaut

2014
The Dune

as Ruben

2014
96 heures

as Victor Kancel

2014
Diplomacy

as General Dietrich von Choltitz

2013
The French Minister

as Claude Maupas

2012
Our Children

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

2009
Suite noire

as Gérard

2007
The Candidate

as Georges

2006
Fragments of Antonin

as le professeur Lantier

2002
2002
A Private Affair

as Le père de Rachel

2000
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

as Jascha Steg

1998
Rewind

as Fabrice Rivail

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

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
1984
1982
One Man's War

as Narrator

1982
La Cerisaie

as Lopakhine

1982
1982
1982
1981
Alone

as Jean

1980
Bruges la Morte

as Hugues Viane

1980
La Femme flic

as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

1978
The Song of Roland

as Le commerçant / Oton

1977
Tauwetter

as Jean-Luc

1976
The Big Night

as Léon

1976
A Second Chance

as Henri Lanot

1976
1976
Lumière

as Nano

1974
Je Tu Il Elle

as Truck-driver

1974
Stavisky...

as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski

Writer

2008
Le Temps des cerises

as Theatre Play

2007
The Candidate

as Writer

Director

2007
The Candidate

as Director