
Acting
Niels Arestrup
FR, EN, DE, IT cinema · 73 credits
Born
8 February 1949
Died
1 December 2024 (aged 75)
Birthplace
Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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
Filmography

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
as Niels Arestrup

Divertimento
as Sergiu Celibidache

Villa Caprice
as Luc Germon

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
as Self - Interviewee

At Eternity's Gate
as Madman

Return to Montauk
as Walter

See You Up There
as Marcel Péricourt

By the Sea
as Michel

So Long Africa
as Jacques

Diplomacy
as General Dietrich von Choltitz

96 heures
as Victor Kancel

The Dune
as Ruben

The French Minister
as Claude Maupas

Our Children
as André Pinget

You Will Be My Son
as Paul de Marseul

War Horse
as Grandfather

The Big Picture
as Bartholomé

Sarah's Key
as Jules Dufaure

Small World
as Thomas Senn

A Prophet
as César Luciani

Farewell
as Vallier

Le Temps des cerises
Theatre Play

The Candidate
as Georges, Director, Writer

Fragments of Antonin
as le professeur Lantier

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
as Robert Seyr

A Private Affair
as Le père de Rachel

Speak to Me of Love
as Richard

Brook by Brook
as Self

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
as Jascha Steg

Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
as Fernando Krapp

Rewind
as Fabrice Rivail

Les Derniers Jours de la victime
as Mendizábal

Délit mineur
as Claude

Albert Savarus
as Albert Savarus

La Femme abandonnée
as Oskar de Wilno

Meeting Venus
as Zoltan Szanto

Manon Roland
as Danton

Barbablù, Barbablù
as Gastone

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

La Rumba
as Detaix

Lorfou
as Angelo

Doux amer
as Jean

Charlie Dingo
as William

Diesel
as Nelson

Sincerely Charlotte
as Mathieu

Among Wolves
as Mike

The Future Is Woman
as Gordon

One Man's War
as Narrator

La Cerisaie
as Lopakhine

Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
as Stan Pilgrim

La Danse de mort
as Kurt

Alone
as Jean
Bruges la Morte
1980
Bruges la Morte
as Hugues Viane

La Femme flic
as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

The Song of Roland
as Le commerçant / Oton

lulu
as Schwarz

Plus ça va, moins ça va
as Vincent
Tauwetter
1977
Tauwetter
as Jean-Luc

The Big Night
as Léon

Lumière
as Nano

Tomorrow's Children
as Philippe

A Second Chance
as Henri Lanot

Je Tu Il Elle
as Truck Driver

Stavisky...
as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
La dernière carte
1974
La dernière carte
as Wilhelm Kasda





