Niels Arestrup

Feb 08, 1949 - Dec 01, 2024 (75 years old) in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

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

poster

Capitaine Marleau

Hervé Gerfaut

poster

War Horse

Grandfather

poster

Baron Noir

Francis Laugier

poster

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Roussin

poster

At Eternity's Gate

Madman

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By the Sea

Michel

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Sarah's Key

Jules Dufaure

poster

A Prophet

César Luciani

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Black Butterflies

Albert Desiderio

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Le Tourbillon des jours

Germain

Credits

Tiens ferme ta couronne Future

★ NR
Divertimento 2023

Sergiu Celibidache

★ 7
Black Butterflies 2022

Albert Desiderio

★ 6.8
Villa Caprice 2021

Luc Germon

★ 5.5
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur 2021

Self - Interviewee

★ NR
At Eternity's Gate 2018

Madman

★ 7
See You Up There 2017

Marcel Péricourt

★ 7.8
Return to Montauk 2017

Walter

★ 5.7
Baron Noir 2016

Francis Laugier

★ 7.6
By the Sea 2015

Michel

★ 5.5
Capitaine Marleau 2015

Hervé Gerfaut

★ 5.9
So Long Africa 2015

Jacques

★ 5.5
The Dune 2014

Ruben

★ 5.9
96 heures 2014

Victor Kancel

★ 5.4
Diplomacy 2014

General Dietrich von Choltitz

★ 7
The French Minister 2013

Claude Maupas

★ 6
Our Children 2012

André Pinget

★ 6.7
War Horse 2011

Grandfather

★ 7.3
You Will Be My Son 2011

Paul de Marseul

★ 6.3
Small World 2010

Thomas Senn

★ 6.3
The Big Picture 2010

Bartholomé

★ 6.3
Sarah's Key 2010

Jules Dufaure

★ 7.3
Behind Bars 2010

Self

★ NR
Farewell 2009

Vallier

★ 6.5
A Prophet 2009

César Luciani

★ 7.6
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007

Roussin

★ 7.6
The Candidate 2007

Georges

★ 5.4
Fragments of Antonin 2006

le professeur Lantier

★ 6.4
The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005

Robert Seyr

★ 6.9
Parlez-moi d'amour 2002

Richard

★ 5.3
A Private Affair 2002

Le père de Rachel

★ 5.6
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic 2000

Jascha Steg

★ 1
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre 2000

Fernando Krapp

★ NR
Rewind 1998

Fabrice Rivail

★ 2.5
Les Derniers Jours de la victime 1995

Mendizábal

★ NR
Délit mineur 1994

Claude

★ NR
Albert Savarus 1993

Albert Savarus

★ NR
La Femme abandonnée 1992

Oskar de Wilno

★ 1
Meeting Venus 1991

Zoltan Szanto

★ 5.8
Manon Roland 1989

Danton

★ NR
Barbablù, Barbablù 1989

Gastone

★ NR
La Ruelle au clair de lune 1988

Professeur Hans Klemm

★ 7
Ville étrangère 1988

Gregor Keuschnig

★ NR
Doux amer 1987

Jean

★ NR
Charlie Dingo 1987

William

★ 6
Lorfou 1987

Angelo

★ NR
La Rumba 1987

Detaix

★ 4.8
Among Wolves 1985

Mike

★ 4.1
Diesel 1985

Nelson

★ 4.7
Sincerely Charlotte 1985

Mathieu

★ 3.3
The Future Is Woman 1984

Gordon

★ 5.8
One Man's War 1982

Narrator

★ 6
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan 1982

Rastignac

★ NR
La Cerisaie 1982

Lopakhine

★ NR
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff 1982

Stan Pilgrim

★ NR
La danse de mort 1982

Kurt

★ NR
Alone 1981

Jean

★ 5.5
Bruges la Morte 1980

Hugues Viane

★ NR
La Femme flic 1980

Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC

★ 6.2
Memoirs of a French Whore 1979

André

★ 6.3
Le Tourbillon des jours 1979

Germain

★ 10
The Song of Roland 1978

Le commerçant / Oton

★ 4.8
Tauwetter 1977

Jean-Luc

★ NR
The Sorceror's Apprentice 1977

Danton

★ 6
Plus ça va, moins ça va 1977

Vincent

★ 4.1
The Big Night 1976

Léon

★ 5.2
A Second Chance 1976

Henri Lanot

★ 6
Tomorrow's Children 1976

Philippe

★ 5
Lumière 1976

Nano

★ 6.8
Je Tu Il Elle 1974

Truck Driver

★ 6.5
Stavisky... 1974

Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski

★ 6
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men 1974

Yves

★ 1
Le Grand Échiquier 1972

Self

★ 8