Niels Arestrup

Known for: Acting

Born: 1949-02-08 – 2024-12-01 (aged 75)

From: 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.

Filmography (76)

MOVIE
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
2024
as Niels Arestrup
MOVIE★ 7.0
Divertimento
2023
as Sergiu Celibidache
TV★ 6.9
Black Butterflies
2022
as Albert Desiderio
MOVIE★ 5.5
Villa Caprice
2021
as Luc Germon
MOVIE
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
2021
as Self - Interviewee
MOVIE★ 7.0
At Eternity's Gate
2018
as Madman
MOVIE★ 7.8
See You Up There
2017
as Marcel Péricourt
MOVIE★ 5.6
Return to Montauk
2017
as Walter
TV★ 7.6
Baron Noir
2016
as Francis Laugier
MOVIE★ 5.5
By the Sea
2015
as Michel
TV★ 6.1
Capitaine Marleau
2015
as Hervé Gerfaut
MOVIE★ 5.5
So Long Africa
2015
as Jacques
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Dune
2014
as Ruben
MOVIE★ 5.4
96 heures
2014
as Victor Kancel
MOVIE★ 7.0
Diplomacy
2014
as General Dietrich von Choltitz
MOVIE★ 6.0
The French Minister
2013
as Claude Maupas
MOVIE★ 6.8
Our Children
2012
as André Pinget
MOVIE★ 7.3
War Horse
2011
as Grandfather
MOVIE★ 6.3
You Will Be My Son
2011
as Paul de Marseul
MOVIE★ 6.3
Small World
2010
as Thomas Senn
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Big Picture
2010
as Bartholomé
MOVIE★ 7.3
Sarah's Key
2010
as Jules Dufaure
MOVIE
Behind Bars
2010
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.5
Farewell
2009
as Vallier
MOVIE★ 7.6
A Prophet
2009
as César Luciani
MOVIE★ 7.6
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
as Roussin
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Candidate
2007
as Georges
MOVIE★ 6.6
Fragments of Antonin
2006
as le professeur Lantier
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005
as Robert Seyr
MOVIE★ 6.5
Speak to Me of Love
2002
as Richard
MOVIE★ 5.6
A Private Affair
2002
as Le père de Rachel
MOVIE★ 4.5
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000
as Jascha Steg
MOVIE★ 7.0
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
2000
as Fernando Krapp
MOVIE★ 4.0
Rewind
1998
as Fabrice Rivail
MOVIE★ 10.0
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
1995
as Mendizábal
MOVIE
Délit mineur
1994
as Claude
MOVIE★ 7.0
Albert Savarus
1993
as Albert Savarus
MOVIE★ 5.5
La Femme abandonnée
1992
as Oskar de Wilno
MOVIE★ 5.9
Meeting Venus
1991
as Zoltan Szanto
MOVIE★ 7.0
Manon Roland
1989
as Danton
MOVIE★ 8.0
Barbablù, Barbablù
1989
as Gastone
MOVIE★ 8.0
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988
as Professeur Hans Klemm
MOVIE★ 10.0
Ville étrangère
1988
as Gregor Keuschnig
MOVIE★ 9.0
Doux amer
1987
as Jean
MOVIE★ 7.5
Charlie Dingo
1987
as William
MOVIE★ 7.0
Lorfou
1987
as Angelo
MOVIE★ 5.3
La Rumba
1987
as Detaix
MOVIE★ 4.4
Among Wolves
1985
as Mike
MOVIE★ 5.1
Diesel
1985
as Nelson
MOVIE★ 3.8
Sincerely Charlotte
1985
as Mathieu
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Future Is Woman
1984
as Gordon
MOVIE★ 6.4
One Man's War
1982
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
1982
as Rastignac
MOVIE★ 4.7
La Cerisaie
1982
as Lopakhine
TV★ 6.8
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
MOVIE★ 8.0
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
1982
as Stan Pilgrim
MOVIE★ 8.5
La danse de mort
1982
as Kurt
MOVIE★ 6.0
Alone
1981
as Jean
MOVIE★ 10.0
Bruges la Morte
1980
as Hugues Viane
MOVIE★ 5.9
La Femme flic
1980
as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
MOVIE★ 6.2
Memoirs of a French Whore
1979
as André
TV★ 9.0
Le Tourbillon des jours
1979
as Germain
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Song of Roland
1978
as Le commerçant / Oton
MOVIE★ 10.0
Tauwetter
1977
as Jean-Luc
MOVIE★ 7.5
The Sorceror's Apprentice
1977
as Danton
MOVIE★ 4.4
Plus ça va, moins ça va
1977
as Vincent
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Big Night
1976
as Léon
MOVIE★ 6.3
A Second Chance
1976
as Henri Lanot
MOVIE★ 6.0
Tomorrow's Children
1976
as Philippe
MOVIE★ 6.8
Lumière
1976
as Nano
MOVIE★ 6.5
Je Tu Il Elle
1974
as Truck Driver
MOVIE★ 5.9
Stavisky...
1974
as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
MOVIE★ 3.7
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
1974
as Yves
MOVIE★ 7.0
La dernière carte
1974
as Wilhelm Kasda
TV★ 8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
MOVIE
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