Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He 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
Filmography
As actor
As director/writer
| 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 | - |
| 1 | Memoirs of a French Whore | Daniel Duval | 1979 | |
| 2 | The Woman Cop | Yves Boisset | 1980 | |
| 3 | If I Had to Do It All Over Again | Claude Lelouch | 1976 | |
| 4 | A Prophet | Jacques Audiard | 2009 | |
| 5 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | 2005 | |
| 6 | The Big Picture | Éric Lartigau | 2010 | |
| 7 | Among Wolves | José Giovanni | 1985 | |
| 8 | Stavisky | Alain Resnais | 1974 |