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

Champs-Elysées
1982
Le Grand Échiquier
1983
Capitaine Marleau
2017
War Horse
2011
At Eternity's Gate
2018
Baron Noir
2016
See You Up There
2017
By the Sea
2015
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
A Prophet
2009
Sarah's Key
2010
Black Butterflies
2022

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
77
Directing
1
Writing
2
2024
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
as Niels Arestrup
2023
Divertimento
as Sergiu Celibidache
2022
Black Butterflies
as Albert Desiderio
2021
Villa Caprice
as Luc Germon
2021
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
as Self - Interviewee
2018
At Eternity's Gate
as Madman
2017
Return to Montauk
as Walter
2017
See You Up There
as Marcel Péricourt
2017
Capitaine Marleau
as Hervé Gerfaut
2016
Baron Noir
as Francis Laugier
2015
By the Sea
as Michel
2015
So Long Africa
as Jacques
2014
Diplomacy
as General Dietrich von Choltitz
2014
96 heures
as Victor Kancel
2014
The Dune
as Ruben
2013
The French Minister
as Claude Maupas
2012
Our Children
as André Pinget
2011
You Will Be My Son
as Paul de Marseul
2011
War Horse
as Grandfather
2010
The Big Picture
as Bartholomé
2010
Sarah's Key
as Jules Dufaure
2010
Small World
as Thomas Senn
2010
Behind Bars
as Self
2009
A Prophet
as César Luciani
2009
Farewell
as Vallier
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Roussin
2007
The Candidate
as Georges
2006
Fragments of Antonin
as le professeur Lantier
2005
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
as Robert Seyr
2002
A Private Affair
as Le père de Rachel
2002
Speak to Me of Love
as Richard
2002
Brook by Brook
as Self
2000
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
as Jascha Steg
2000
Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre
as Fernando Krapp
1998
Rewind
as Fabrice Rivail
1995
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
as Mendizábal
1994
Délit mineur
as Claude
1993
Albert Savarus
as Albert Savarus
1992
La Femme abandonnée
as Oskar de Wilno
1991
Meeting Venus
as Zoltan Szanto
1989
Manon Roland
as Danton
1989
Barbablù, Barbablù
as Gastone
1988
Ville étrangère
as Gregor Keuschnig
1988
La Ruelle au clair de lune
as Professeur Hans Klemm
1987
La Rumba
as Detaix
1987
Lorfou
as Angelo
1987
Doux amer
as Jean
1987
Charlie Dingo
as William
1985
Diesel
as Nelson
1985
Sincerely Charlotte
as Mathieu
1985
Among Wolves
as Mike
1984
The Future Is Woman
as Gordon
1983
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1982
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
as Rastignac
1982
One Man's War
as Narrator
1982
La Cerisaie
as Lopakhine
1982
Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff
as Stan Pilgrim
1982
La danse de mort
as Kurt
1982
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1981
Alone
as Jean
1980
Bruges la Morte
as Hugues Viane
1980
La Femme flic
as Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC
1979
Memoirs of a French Whore
as André
1979
Le Tourbillon des jours
as Germain
1978
The Song of Roland
as Le commerçant / Oton
1977
Plus ça va, moins ça va
as Vincent
1977
The Sorceror's Apprentice
as Danton
1977
Tauwetter
as Jean-Luc
1976
The Big Night
as Léon
1976
Lumière
as Nano
1976
Tomorrow's Children
as Philippe
1976
A Second Chance
as Henri Lanot
1974
Je Tu Il Elle
as Truck Driver
1974
Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men
as Yves
1974
Stavisky...
as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
1974
La dernière carte
as Wilhelm Kasda
Tiens ferme ta couronne