Niels Arestrup

ActorWriterDirector Feb 8 (died age 75) Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France 1972–2024 (52 year career)

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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

Film

War Horse

Grandfather

Film

A Prophet

César Luciani

Film

See You Up There

Marcel Péricourt

Film

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Roussin

Film

At Eternity's Gate

Madman

Film

Sarah's Key

Jules Dufaure

Film

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Robert Seyr

Film

Diplomacy

General Dietrich von Choltitz

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (70)

Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024

2024

as Niels Arestrup

Divertimento

2023

as Sergiu Celibidache

7.0

Villa Caprice

2021

as Luc Germon

5.5

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

2021

as Self - Interviewee

At Eternity's Gate

as Madman

See You Up There

as Marcel Péricourt

Return to Montauk

as Walter

By the Sea

as Michel

So Long Africa

as Jacques

96 heures

as Victor Kancel

Diplomacy

as General Dietrich von Choltitz

The Dune

as Ruben

The French Minister

as Claude Maupas

Our Children

as André Pinget

War Horse

as Grandfather

You Will Be My Son

as Paul de Marseul

Sarah's Key

as Jules Dufaure

The Big Picture

as Bartholomé

Small World

as Thomas Senn

Behind Bars

as Self

A Prophet

as César Luciani

Farewell

as Vallier

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

as Roussin

The Candidate

as Georges

Fragments of Antonin

as le professeur Lantier

6.4

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

as Robert Seyr

Speak to Me of Love

as Richard

A Private Affair

as Le père de Rachel

Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre

2000

as Fernando Krapp

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

as Jascha Steg

Rewind

as Fabrice Rivail

Les Derniers Jours de la victime

1995

as Mendizábal

Délit mineur

1994

as Claude

Albert Savarus

as Albert Savarus

La Femme abandonnée

as Oskar de Wilno

Meeting Venus

as Zoltan Szanto

Barbablù, Barbablù

as Gastone

Manon Roland

1989

as Danton

Ville étrangère

1988

as Gregor Keuschnig

La Ruelle au clair de lune

1988

as Professeur Hans Klemm

7.0

Doux amer

1987

as Jean

Lorfou

1987

as Angelo

La Rumba

as Detaix

Charlie Dingo

as William

Among Wolves

as Mike

Sincerely Charlotte

as Mathieu

Diesel

as Nelson

The Future Is Woman

as Gordon

One Man's War

as Narrator

La Cerisaie

as Lopakhine

Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff

1982

as Stan Pilgrim

La danse de mort

1982

as Kurt

The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan

1982

as Rastignac

Alone

1981

as Jean

5.5

La Femme flic

1980

as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

5.8

Bruges la Morte

1980

as Hugues Viane

Memoirs of a French Whore

1979

as André

6.1

The Song of Roland

1978

as Le commerçant / Oton

4.9

The Sorceror's Apprentice

1977

as Danton

6.0

Tauwetter

1977

as Jean-Luc

Plus ça va, moins ça va

as Vincent

The Big Night

as Léon

A Second Chance

as Henri Lanot

Tomorrow's Children

as Philippe

Lumière

as Nano

Stavisky...

as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski

Je Tu Il Elle

as Truck Driver

La dernière carte

as Wilhelm Kasda

Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men

1974

as Yves

1.0

Tiens ferme ta couronne

Television (6)

Black Butterflies

as Albert Desiderio

Baron Noir

as Francis Laugier

Capitaine Marleau

as Hervé Gerfaut

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Le Tourbillon des jours

as Germain

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Le Temps des cerises

Theatre Play

The Candidate

Director

The Candidate

Writer