Niels Arestrup
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 8 February 1949 · Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
- Died
- 1 December 2024
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 71
- 2026Tiens ferme ta couronne
- 2024Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024 as Niels Arestrup
- 2023Divertimento as Sergiu Celibidache
- 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
- 2015By the Sea as Michel
- 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
- 2002Speak to Me of Love as Richard
- 2002A Private Affair as Le père de Rachel
- 2002Brook by Brook as Self
- 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
- 1982Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff as Stan Pilgrim
- 1982La danse de mort as Kurt
- 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
- 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
Writing 2
- 2008Le Temps des cerises · theatre play
- 2007The Candidate · writer
Directing 1
- 2007The Candidate · director