Niels Arestrup

Biography

Niels Arestrup (born February 8, 1949) is a French actor. Born in Paris into a family of modest means, 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. Filmography 1973: Miss O'Gynie et les hommes fleurs by Samy Pavel 1974: Stavisky by Alain Resnais 1974: Je, tu, il, elle by Chantal Akerman 1976: Si c'était à refaire by Claude Lelouch 1976: Le Grand Soir by Francis Reusser 1977: Plus ça va, moins ça va by Michel Vianey 1978: The Song of Roland by Frank Cassenti 1980: La Femme flic by Yves Boisset 1981: La Dérobade by Daniel Duval 1982: Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan TV-film by Jacques Deray of Honoré de Balzacs novel Eugène de Rastignac 1984: Le Futur est femme by Marco Ferreri 1985: Signé Charlotte by Caroline Huppert 1985: Diesel by Robert Kramer 1986: La Rumba by Roger Hanin 1987: Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat 1987: Doux amer by Franck Apprederis 1988: Ville étrangère by Didier Goldschmidt 1991: La Tentation de Vénus by István Szabó (originally entitled Meeting Venus) 1994: Délit mineur by Francis Girod 1994: Dernier Jour de la victime by Bruno Gantillon 1998: Rewind 2000: Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreuz by Didier Martiny 2001: Une affaire privée by Guillaume Nicloux 2002: Parlez-moi d'amour by Sophie Marceau 2005: De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté by Jacques Audiard 2005: Les Fragments d'Antonin by Gabriel Le Bomin 2006: Le Candidat, also wrote & directed 2006: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon by Julian Schnabel 2007: Mauvaise Pente by Jeanne Labrune 2007: La Part animale by Sébastien Jaudeau 2008: Tirez sur le caviste collection Suite noire by Emmanuelle Bercot 2009: A Prophet by Jacques Audiard 2010: Sarah's Key by Gille Paquet Brenner 2011: War Horse by Steven Spielberg 2011: Tu Seras Mon Fils by Gilles Legrand 2012: Loving Without Reason ----------------- see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Arestrup ----------------