Acting

Niels Arestrup

Born 1949-02-08 · Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Died 2024-12-01

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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Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
as Niels Arestrup
2024
Divertimento
as Sergiu Celibidache
2023
Black Butterflies
as Albert Desiderio
2022
Villa Caprice
as Luc Germon
2021
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
as Self - Interviewee
2021
At Eternity's Gate
as Madman
2018
See You Up There
as Marcel Péricourt
2017
Return to Montauk
as Walter
2017
Baron Noir
as Francis Laugier
2016
By the Sea
as Michel
2015
Capitaine Marleau
as Hervé Gerfaut
2015
So Long Africa
as Jacques
2015
The Dune
as Ruben
2014
96 heures
as Victor Kancel
2014
Diplomacy
as General Dietrich von Choltitz
2014
The French Minister
as Claude Maupas
2013
Our Children
as André Pinget
2012
War Horse
as Grandfather
2011
You Will Be My Son
as Paul de Marseul
2011
Small World
as Thomas Senn
2010
The Big Picture
as Bartholomé
2010
Sarah's Key
as Jules Dufaure
2010
Behind Bars
as Self
2010
Farewell
as Vallier
2009
A Prophet
as César Luciani
2009
Le Temps des cerises
Theatre Play
2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Roussin
2007
The Candidate
as Georges
2007
The Candidate
Director
2007
The Candidate
Writer
2007
Fragments of Antonin
as le professeur Lantier
2006
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
as Robert Seyr
2005
Speak to Me of Love
as Richard
2002
A Private Affair
as Le père de Rachel
2002
Brook by Brook
as Self
2002
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
as Jascha Steg
2000
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
as Fernando Krapp
2000
Rewind
as Fabrice Rivail
1998
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
as Mendizábal
1995
Délit mineur
as Claude
1994
Albert Savarus
as Albert Savarus
1993
La Femme abandonnée
as Oskar de Wilno
1992
Meeting Venus
as Zoltan Szanto
1991
Manon Roland
as Danton
1989
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Gastone
1989
La Ruelle au clair de lune
as Professeur Hans Klemm
1988
Ville étrangère
as Gregor Keuschnig
1988
Doux amer
as Jean
1987
Charlie Dingo
as William
1987
Lorfou
as Angelo
1987
La Rumba
as Detaix
1987
Among Wolves
as Mike
1985
Diesel
as Nelson
1985
Sincerely Charlotte
as Mathieu
1985
The Future Is Woman
as Gordon
1984
One Man's War
as Narrator
1982
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
as Rastignac
1982
La Cerisaie
as Lopakhine
1982
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
as Stan Pilgrim
1982
La danse de mort
as Kurt
1982
Alone
as Jean
1981
Bruges la Morte
as Hugues Viane
1980
La Femme flic
as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
1980
Memoirs of a French Whore
as André
1979
Le Tourbillon des jours
as Germain
1979
The Song of Roland
as Le commerçant / Oton
1978
Tauwetter
as Jean-Luc
1977
The Sorceror's Apprentice
as Danton
1977
Plus ça va, moins ça va
as Vincent
1977
The Big Night
as Léon
1976
A Second Chance
as Henri Lanot
1976
Tomorrow's Children
as Philippe
1976
Lumière
as Nano
1976
Je Tu Il Elle
as Truck Driver
1974
Stavisky...
as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
1974
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
as Yves
1974
La dernière carte
as Wilhelm Kasda
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
Tiens ferme ta couronne
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