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Niels Arestrup

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: Acting

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

Died: 2024-12-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Je Tu Il Elle	Truck Driver	66
2	1976	Lumière	Nano	68
3	1976	Tomorrow's Children	Philippe	50
4	1976	The Big Night	Léon	52
5	1977	Plus ça va, moins ça va	Vincent	41
6	1979	Memoirs of a French Whore	André	63
7	1982	La Cerisaie	Lopakhine	0
8	1982	The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan	Rastignac	0
9	1982	One Man's War	Narrator	60
10	1984	The Future Is Woman	Gordon	58
11	1985	Sincerely Charlotte	Mathieu	33
12	1985	Diesel	Nelson	47
13	1985	Among Wolves	Mike	41
14	1987	La Rumba	Detaix	46
15	1987	Lorfou	Angelo	0
16	1987	Doux amer	Jean	0
17	1991	Meeting Venus	Zoltan Szanto	59
18	1998	Rewind	Fabrice Rivail	25
19	2000	Lulu Kreutz's Picnic	Jascha Steg	10
20	2002	A Private Affair	Le père de Rachel	56
21	2002	Parlez-moi d'amour	Richard	53
22	2005	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	Robert Seyr	69
23	2007	The Candidate	Georges	54
24	2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Roussin	76
25	2009	A Prophet	César Luciani	76
26	2009	Farewell	Vallier	65
27	2010	Sarah's Key	Jules Dufaure	73
28	2010	The Big Picture	Bartholomé	63
29	2010	Small World	Thomas Senn	63
30	2011	You Will Be My Son	Paul de Marseul	62
31	2012	Our Children	André Pinget	67
32	2013	The French Minister	Claude Maupas	60
33	2014	Diplomacy	General Dietrich von Choltitz	70
34	2014	96 heures	Victor Kancel	54
35	2014	The Dune	Ruben	59
36		Tiens ferme ta couronne		0
37	1974	Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men	Yves	10
38	1974	Stavisky...	Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski	60
39	1976	A Second Chance	Henri Lanot	60
40	1977	The Sorceror's Apprentice	Danton	60
41	1977	Tauwetter	Jean-Luc	0
42	1978	The Song of Roland	Le commerçant / Oton	48
43	1980	La Femme flic	Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC	62
44	1980	Bruges la Morte	Hugues Viane	0
45	1981	Alone	Jean	55
46	1982	Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff	Stan Pilgrim	0
47	1982	La danse de mort	Kurt	0
48	1987	Charlie Dingo	William	60
49	1988	Ville étrangère	Gregor Keuschnig	0
50	1988	La Ruelle au clair de lune	Professeur Hans Klemm	70
51	1989	Barbablù, Barbablù	Gastone	0
52	1989	Manon Roland	Danton	0
53	1992	La Femme abandonnée	Oskar de Wilno	10
54	1993	Albert Savarus	Albert Savarus	60
55	1994	Délit mineur	Claude	0
56	1995	Les Derniers Jours de la victime	Mendizábal	0
57	2000	Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre	Fernando Krapp	0
58	2006	Fragments of Antonin	le professeur Lantier	67
59	2010	Behind Bars	Self	0
60	2011	War Horse	Grandfather	73
61	2015	So Long Africa	Jacques	55
62	2015	By the Sea	Michel	55
63	2017	Return to Montauk	Walter	56
64	2017	See You Up There	Marcel Péricourt	78
65	2018	At Eternity's Gate	Madman	70
66	2021	Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur	Self - Interviewee	0
67	2021	Villa Caprice	Luc Germon	54
68	2023	Divertimento	Sergiu Celibidache	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
2	1979	Le Tourbillon des jours	Germain	100
3	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
4	2015	Capitaine Marleau	Hervé Gerfaut	59
5	2016	Baron Noir	Francis Laugier	76
6	2022	Black Butterflies	Albert Desiderio	68