Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
1949-02-08
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2023
Divertimento as Sergiu Celibidache
2022Black Butterflies as Albert Desiderio
2021Villa Caprice as Luc Germon
2021Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur as Self - Interviewee
2018At Eternity's Gate as Madman
2017See You Up There as Marcel Péricourt
2017Return to Montauk as Walter
2016Baron Noir as Francis Laugier
2015By the Sea as Michel
2015Capitaine Marleau as Hervé Gerfaut
2015So Long Africa as Jacques
2014The Dune as Ruben
201496 heures as Victor Kancel
2014Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz
2013The French Minister as Claude Maupas
2012Our Children as André Pinget
2011War Horse as Grandfather
2011You Will Be My Son as Paul de Marseul
2010Small World as Thomas Senn
2010The Big Picture as Bartholomé
2010Sarah's Key as Jules Dufaure
2010Behind Bars as Self
2009Farewell as Vallier
2009A Prophet as César Luciani
2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Roussin
2007The Candidate as Georges
2006Fragments of Antonin as le professeur Lantier
2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Robert Seyr
2002Parlez-moi d'amour as Richard
2002A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
2000Lulu Kreutz's Picnic as Jascha Steg
2000Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre as Fernando Krapp
1998Rewind as Fabrice Rivail
1995Les Derniers Jours de la victime as Mendizábal
1994Délit mineur as Claude
1993Albert Savarus as Albert Savarus
1992La Femme abandonnée as Oskar de Wilno
1991Meeting Venus as Zoltan Szanto
1989Manon Roland as Danton
1989Barbablù, Barbablù as Gastone
1988La Ruelle au clair de lune as Professeur Hans Klemm
1988Ville étrangère as Gregor Keuschnig
1987Doux amer as Jean
1987Charlie Dingo as William
1987Lorfou as Angelo
1987La Rumba as Detaix
1985Among Wolves as Mike
1985Diesel as Nelson
1985Sincerely Charlotte as Mathieu
1984The Future Is Woman as Gordon
1982One Man's War as Narrator
1982The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan as Rastignac
1982La Cerisaie as Lopakhine
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1982La danse de mort as Kurt
1982Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
1981Alone as Jean
1980Bruges la Morte as Hugues Viane
1980La Femme flic as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
1979Memoirs of a French Whore as André
1979Le Tourbillon des jours as Germain
1978The Song of Roland as Le commerçant / Oton
1977Tauwetter as Jean-Luc
1977The Sorceror's Apprentice as Danton
1977Plus ça va, moins ça va as Vincent
1976The Big Night as Léon
1976A Second Chance as Henri Lanot
1976Tomorrow's Children as Philippe
1976Lumière as Nano
1974Je Tu Il Elle as Truck Driver
1974Stavisky... as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
1974Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men as Yves
1974La dernière carte as Wilhelm Kasda
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self
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