Niels Arestrup | |
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 Arestrup at the 2014 César Awards | |
| Born | 8 February 1949 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Children | 2 |
Niels Arestrup (French pronunciation: [nils aʁestʁyp]; born 8 February 1949) is a French-Danish 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.
In 2017, he won the Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor in a Play for his work on Acting and in 2019, he won the Molière Award for Best Actor for his work on Red. He was previously nominated in this same category in 2000 for Copenhagen, in 2006 for Letters to a Young Poet and in 2012 for Diplomacy.
Personal Life
Niels Arestrup was ten years old when his father was transferred to Corbeil-Essonnes. The family then moved into a public housing project in Évry, Yonne. Arestrup was a solitary child and begins to skip school. He failed his baccalaureate in 1968 and took on odd jobs. At the same time, he enrolled in a course with Tania Balachova, whom he discovered on television. He began a career in the theater, which he continued while appearing more and more on the small and big screens.
In 2012, after ten years together, Niels Arestrup married the actress, screenwriter and author Isabelle Le Nouvel. The same year, they had twins, a boy and a girl.[1]
Theatre
Filmography
As actor
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Miss O'Gynie et les hommes fleurs | Yves | Samy Pavel | |
| Stavisky | Rudolph | Alain Resnais | ||
| 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 | ||
| Thaw | 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 | 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 | |
| The Post Office Girl | 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[2] | 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[3] | Paul de Marseul | Gilles Legrand | Nominated - Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actor | |
| 2012 | Our Children | André Pinget | Joachim Lafosse | |
| 2013 | The French Minister[4] | 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 | Villa Caprice | Luc Germon | Bernard Stora | |
| 2022 | Black Butterflies | Albert Desiderio | Olivier Abbou | TV series (6 Episodes) Nominated - ACS Award for Best Supporting Role in a TV Series : 40 minutes |
| 2023 | Divertimento | Sergiu Celibidache | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | |
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 |
Accolades
References
- ↑ https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/niels-arestrup-magnetique-120414-848588
- ↑ "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, Scott Foundas. "REVIEW: 'The French Minister' ★★★ 1/2". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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