Niels Arestrup
| Niels Arestrup | |
|---|---|
 Arestrup at the 2014 César Awards | |
| Born |
8 February 1949 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Children | 2 |
Niels Arestrup (French pronunciation: [nils aʁestʁyp]; born 8 February 1949) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He was born in Paris into a family of modest means; his father was Danish and his mother was Breton.
Arestrup has won three César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet, then Quai d'Orsay. The two first films were directed by Jacques Audiard. He is the most awarded in this category.
Theater
| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | La Famille | Lodewijk De Boer | Derek Goldby | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | André Barsacq | ||
| 1975 | Deathwatch | Jean Genet | Claude Mathieu | |
| 1976-77 | Gilles de Rais | Roger Planchon | Roger Planchon | |
| 1979 | Platonov | Anton Chekhov | Gabriel Garran | |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Peter Brook | |
| 1982 | La Dernière Nuit de l'été | Aleksei Arbuzov | Yves Bureau | |
| The Lover | Harold Pinter | Philippe Ferran | ||
| 1983 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Peter Brook (2) | |
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Andreas Voutsinas | ||
| 1984 | Dom Juan | Molière | Maurice Bénichou | |
| 1985 | Fool for Love | Sam Shepard | Andreas Voutsinas (2) | |
| 1986 | B29 | Alain Page | Derek Goldby (2) | |
| 1987 | 2050, le radeau de la mort | Harald Müller | Hans-Peter Cloos | |
| 1988 | Three Sisters | Anton Tchekhov | Maurice Bénichou (2) | |
| 1989 | The Seagull | Anton Tchekhov | Andrei Konchalovsky | |
| 1990 | Tout contre un petit bois | Jean-Michel Ribes | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| Sade, concert d'enfers | Enzo Cormann | Philippe Adrien | ||
| The Misanthrope | Molière | Pierre Pradinas | ||
| 1991 | Ecrit sur l'Eau | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Niels Arestrup | |
| 1993 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | Niels Arestrup (2) | |
| 1995 | La Musica deuxième | Marguerite Duras | Bernard Murat | |
| 1996 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | John Berry | |
| 1999 | Étoiles | Pierre Laville | Maurice Bénichou (3) | |
| Copenhagen | Michael Frayn | Michael Blakemore | Prix du Syndicat de la critique - Best Actor Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor | |
| 2000 | Fernando Krapp m’a écrit cette lettre | Tankred Dorst | Bernard Murat (2) | |
| 2002 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Jacques Weber | |
| Une nuit arabe | Roland Schimmelpfennig | Frédéric Bélier-Garcia | ||
| 2003 | Each In His Own Way | Luigi Pirandello | Bernard Murat (3) | |
| 2004 | L'Homme, la bête et la vertu | Luigi Pirandello | Jean-Claude Idée | |
| Quartett | Heiner Müller | Hans-Peter Cloos (2) | ||
| 2005 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | Niels Arestrup (3) | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
| 2007 | Eva | Nicolas Bedos | Daniel Colas | |
| 2008 | Beyrouth Hôtel | Rémi de Vos | Niels Arestrup (4) | |
| 2011-12 | Diplomacy | Cyril Gély | Stéphan Meldegg | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
| 2015 | Le Souper | Jean-Claude Brisville | Daniel Benoin | |
| 2016-17 | Acting | Xavier Durringer | Xavier Durringer | |
Filmography
As actor
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Stavisky | Rudolph | Alain Resnais | |
| Miss O'Gynie et les hommes fleurs | Yves | Samy Pavel | ||
| La dernière carte | Wilhem Kasda | Marcel Cravenne | TV Movie | |
| Messieurs les jurés | Jean-Roger Pasquier | André Michel | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 1976 | Lumière | Nano | Jeanne Moreau | |
| If I Had to Do It All Over Again | Henri Lanot | Claude Lelouch | ||
| The Big Night | Léon | Francis Reusser | ||
| I, you, he, she | The driver | Chantal Akerman | ||
| Demain les mômes | Philippe | Jean Pourtalé | ||
| 1977 | The More It Goes, the Less It Goes | Vincent | Michel Vianey | |
| The Apprentice Sorcerers | Danton | Edgardo Cozarinsky | ||
| Tauwetter | Jean-Luc | Markus Imhoof | TV Movie | |
| Cinéma 16 | Brandy | Bernard Dubois | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 1978 | The Song of Roland | Oton | Frank Cassenti | |
| Lulu | Schwarz | Marcel Bluwal | TV Movie | |
| 1979 | Memoirs of a French Whore | André | Daniel Duval | |
| La passion d'une femme sans coeur | Karl | Moïse Maatouk | Short | |
| Le tourbillon des jours | Germain | Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | TV Mini-Series | |
| 1980 | The Woman Cop | Dominique Allier | Yves Boisset | |
| Bruges la morte | Hugues Viane | Alain Dhénaut | TV Movie | |
| Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 | The client | Jacques Audoir | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 1981 | Seuls | Jean | Francis Reusser (2) | |
| Du blues dans la tête | Dan | Hervé Palud | ||
| Les héritiers | Serge | Bruno Gantillon | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| Mon meilleur Noël | The father | Gabriel Axel | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 1982 | Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan | Rastignac | Jacques Deray | TV Movie |
| La cerisaie | Lopakhine | Peter Brook | TV Movie | |
| Le retour d'Elisabeth Wolff | Stan Pilgrim | Josée Dayan | TV Movie | |
| La danse de mort | Kurt | Claude Chabrol | TV Movie | |
| 1983 | Les poneys sauvages | Robert Mazoyer | TV Mini-Series | |
| 1984 | The Future Is Woman | Gordon | Marco Ferreri | |
| Mademoiselle Julie | Jean | Yves-André Hubert | TV Movie | |
| 1985 | Sincerely Charlotte | Mathieu | Caroline Huppert | |
| Among Wolves | Mike | José Giovanni | ||
| Diesel | Nelson | Robert Kramer | ||
| 1986 | Le goûter chez Niels | Didier Martiny | Short | |
| 1987 | La rumba | Commissioner Detaix | Roger Hanin | |
| Barbablù, Barbablù | Gastone | Fabio Carpi | ||
| Charlie Dingo | William | Gilles Béhat | ||
| Série noire | Angelo | Daniel Duval (2) | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 1988 | Ville étrangère | Gregor Keuschnig | Didier Goldschmidt | |
| La ruelle au clair de lune | Professor Hans Klemm | Édouard Molinaro | TV Movie | |
| 1989 | Doux amer | Jean | Franck Apprederis | |
| Manon Roland | Danton | Édouard Molinaro (2) | TV Movie | |
| Rausch der Verwandlung | Ferdinand Farner | Édouard Molinaro (3) | TV Mini-Series | |
| 1991 | Meeting Venus | Zoltan Szanto | István Szabó | |
| La grande dune | Keiser | Bernard Stora | TV Movie | |
| 1992 | La femme abandonnée | Oskar de Wilno | Édouard Molinaro (4) | TV Movie |
| 1993 | Albert Savarus | Albert Savarus | Alexandre Astruc | TV Movie |
| 1994 | Délit mineur | Claude | Francis Girod | |
| 1995 | Les derniers jours de la victime | Mendizabal | Bruno Gantillon (2) | TV Movie |
| 1998 | Rewind | Fabrice Rivail | Sergio Gobbi | |
| 2000 | Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz | Jascha Steg | Didier Martiny (2) | |
| La part de l'ombre | Charles Oberlé | Philippe Venault | TV Movie | |
| Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre | Fernando Krapp | Yves Di Tullio & Bernard Murat | TV Movie | |
| 2002 | Speak to Me of Love | Richard | Sophie Marceau | |
| A Private Affair | Monsieur Siprien | Guillaume Nicloux | ||
| Les enquêtes d'Éloïse Rome | Van Rooten | Didier Le Pêcheur | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 2005 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Robert Seyr | Jacques Audiard | César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2006 | Les fragments d'Antonin | Professor Lantier | Gabriel Le Bomin | |
| Le Rainbow Warrior | The Duke | Pierre Boutron | TV Movie | |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Roussin | Julian Schnabel | |
| Le candidat | Georges | Niels Arestrup | ||
| La part animale | Henri Chaumier | Sébastien Jaudeau | ||
| 2009 | A Prophet | César Luciani | Jacques Audiard (2) | César Award for Best Supporting Actor (2) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor International Cinephile Society Awards - Best Supporting Actor |
| L'affaire Farewell | Vallier | Christian Carion | ||
| Suite noire | Gérard | Emmanuelle Bercot | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
| 2010 | The Big Picture | Bartholomé | Éric Lartigau | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Sarah's Key | Jules Dufaure | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | ||
| Small World | Thomas Senn | Bruno Chiche | ||
| 2011 | War Horse | Grandfather | Steven Spielberg | |
| You Will Be My Son | Paul de Marseul | Gilles Legrand | Nominated - Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actor | |
| 2012 | Our Children | André Pinget | Joachim Lafosse | |
| 2013 | The French Minister | Claude Maupas | Bertrand Tavernier | César Award for Best Supporting Actor (3) Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor |
| The Dune | Reuven | Yossi Aviram | ||
| 2014 | Diplomacy | Général von Choltitz | Volker Schlöndorff | Valladolid International Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
| 96 hours | Victor Kancel | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | ||
| 2015 | By the Sea | Michel | Angelina Jolie | |
| Papa lumière | Jacques | Ada Loueilh | ||
| 2016-17 | Republican Gangsters | Francis Laugier | Ziad Doueiri | TV Series (8 Episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor |
| 2017 | Au Revoir Là Haut | M. Péricourt | Albert Dupontel | |
| Return to Montauk | Walter | Volker Schlöndorff (2) | ||
As director/writer
Niels Arestrup in 2010 to the 35th César Awards
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Du blues dans la tête | Writer |
| 2007 | The Candidate | Director and writer |
Box-office
Movies starring Niels Arestrup with more than a million of entries in France.
| Films | Director | Year | France (entries) | |
| 1 | Memoirs of a French Whore | Daniel Duval | 1979 | 2 764 084 |
| 2 | The Woman Cop | Yves Boisset | 1980 | 1 807 761 |
| 3 | If I Had to Do It All Over Again | Claude Lelouch | 1976 | 1 312 267 |
| 4 | A Prophet | Jacques Audiard | 2009 | 1 309 269 |
| 5 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | 2005 | 1 231 156 |
| 6 | The Big Picture | Éric Lartigau | 2010 | 1 196 015 |
| 7 | Among Wolves | José Giovanni | 1985 | 1 047 597 |
| 8 | Stavisky | Alain Resnais | 1974 | 1 017 182 |
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