Niels Arestrup (; 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.

Niels Arestrup

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.

Niels Arestrup

Theatre

Filmography

As actor

As director/writer

Box-office

Movies starring Niels Arestrup with more than a million of entries in France.

Niels Arestrup

Accolades

References

External links

See also

1949 births

Living people

Danish male film actors

Danish male television actors

French people of Danish descent

Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite

Danish film directors

Danish male screenwriters

20th-century Danish male actors

21st-century Danish male actors

Male actors from Paris

Best Supporting Actor César Award winners