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Niels Arestrup

Acting Born Feb 8, 1949 Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France 24 credits

Biography

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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Known for

Film

War Horse

as Grandfather
Film

See You Up There

as Marcel Péricourt

Full filmography

  • Champs-Elysées (1982) as Self
  • Le Grand Échiquier (1972) as Self
  • Capitaine Marleau (2015) as Hervé Gerfaut
  • War Horse (2011) as Grandfather
  • Baron Noir (2016) as Francis Laugier
  • At Eternity's Gate (2018) as Madman
  • A Prophet (2009) as César Luciani
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) as Roussin
  • Black Butterflies (2022) as Albert Desiderio
  • Sarah's Key (2010) as Jules Dufaure
  • By the Sea (2015) as Michel
  • See You Up There (2017) as Marcel Péricourt
  • Memoirs of a French Whore (1979) as André
  • Stavisky... (1974) as Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski
  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) as Robert Seyr
  • Diplomacy (2014) as General Dietrich von Choltitz
  • Farewell (2009) as Vallier
  • The Dune (2014) as Ruben
  • Divertimento (2023) as Sergiu Celibidache
  • The French Minister (2013) as Claude Maupas
  • Je Tu Il Elle (1974) as Truck Driver
  • A Private Affair (2002) as Le père de Rachel
  • The Future Is Woman (1984) as Gordon
  • Villa Caprice (2021) as Luc Germon