Niels Arestrup
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Born | Paris, France | 8 February 1949
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. He has won three César Awards.
Biography[]
Arestrup 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 |
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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 | |
Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Andreas Voutsinas | ||
1984 | Dom Juan | Molière | Maurice Bénichou | |
1985 | Fool for Love | Sam Shepard | Andreas Voutsinas | |
1986 | B29 | Alain Page | Derek Goldby | |
1987 | 2050, le radeau de la mort | Harald Müller | Hans-Peter Cloos | |
1988 | Three Sisters | Anton Tchekhov | Maurice Bénichou | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
2002 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Jacques Weber | |
Une nuit arabe | Roland Schimmelpfennig | Frédéric Bélier-Garcia | ||
2003 | Each In His Own Way | Luigi Pirandello | Bernard Murat | |
2004 | L'Homme, la bête et la vertu | Luigi Pirandello | Jean-Claude Idée | |
Quartett | Heiner Müller | Hans-Peter Cloos | ||
2005 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | Niels Arestrup | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
2007 | Eva | Nicolas Bedos | Daniel Colas | |
2008 | Beyrouth Hôtel | Rémi de Vos | Niels Arestrup | |
2011-12 | Diplomacy | Cyril Gély | Stéphan Meldegg | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Actor |
2015 | Le Souper | Jean-Claude Brisville | Daniel Benoin | |
2016-18 | Acting | Xavier Durringer | Xavier Durringer | Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor in a Play |
2018 | Skorpios au loin | Isabelle le Nouvel | Jean-Louis Benoît | |
2019 | Red | John Logan | Jérémie Lippmann | Molière Award for Best Actor |
Filmography[]
As actor[]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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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 | |
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 | |
One Man's War | Narrator | Edgardo Cozarinsky | Documentary | |
1983 | Les poneys sauvages | Ben | 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 | 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 | TV Movie | |
Rausch der Verwandlung | Ferdinand Farner | Édouard Molinaro | 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 | 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 | TV Movie |
1998 | Rewind | Fabrice Rivail | Sergio Gobbi | |
2000 | Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz | Jascha Steg | Didier Martiny | |
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[1] | César Luciani | Jacques Audiard | César Award for Best Supporting Actor 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[2] | Paul de Marseul | Gilles Legrand | Nominated - Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actor | |
2012 | Our Children | André Pinget | Joachim Lafosse | |
2013 | The French Minister[3] | Claude Maupas | Bertrand Tavernier | César Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated - Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor |
2014 | Diplomacy | Général von Choltitz | Volker Schlöndorff | Valladolid International Film Festival - Best Actor Nominated - César Award for Best Actor |
The Dune | Reuven | Yossi Aviram | ||
96 hours | Victor Kancel | Frédéric Schoendoerffer | ||
2015 | By the Sea | Michel | Angelina Jolie | |
Papa lumière | Jacques | Ada Loueilh | ||
2016 | Republican Gangsters | Francis Laugier | Ziad Doueiri | TV Series (8 Episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Actor |
2017 | See You Up There | President Marcel Péricourt | Albert Dupontel | Nominated - César Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Return to Montauk | Walter | Volker Schlöndorff | ||
Capitaine Marleau | Hervé Gerfaut | Josée Dayan | TV Series (1 Episode) | |
2018 | At Eternity's Gate | Madman | Julian Schnabel | |
2019 | Calls | Adam | Timothée Hochet | TV Series (1 Episode) |
2020 | Luc Germon | Bernard Stora | ||
TBA | Les papillons noirs | Albert Desiderio | Olivier Abbou & Bruno Merle | TV Series Filming |
As director/writer[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Niels_Arestrup.jpg/170px-Niels_Arestrup.jpg)
Niels Arestrup in 2010 to the 35th César Awards
Year | Title | Notes |
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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 |
Accolades[]
References[]
- ^ "Niels Arestrup : " La solitude m'a beaucoup servi "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-10-27. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Review: Niels Arestrup clearly dominates in 'You Will Be My Son'". Los Angeles Times. 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ Variety, By Scott Foundas. "REVIEW: 'The French Minister' ★★★ 1/2". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
External links[]
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- Niels Arestrup at IMDb
See also[]
Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- French male film actors
- French male television actors
- French people of Breton descent
- French people of Danish descent
- Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- French film directors
- French male screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- 20th-century French male actors
- 21st-century French male actors
- Male actors from Paris
- Best Supporting Actor César Award winners