Feb 8, 1949 - Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Niels Arestrup was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.
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| Movie | 2005 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Robert Seyr | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Roussin | |
| Movie | 2009 | A Prophet | César Luciani | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan | Rastignac | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Big Night | Léon | |
| Movie | 2009 | Farewell | Vallier | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Candidate | Georges | |
| Movie | 2002 | A Private Affair | Le père de Rachel | |
| Movie | 2011 | You Will Be My Son | Paul de Marseul | |
| Movie | 1984 | The Future Is Woman | Gordon | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Big Picture | Bartholomé | |
| Movie | 1987 | La Rumba | Detaix | |
| Movie | 2010 | Sarah's Key | Jules Dufaure | |
| Movie | 1979 | Memoirs of a French Whore | André | |
| Movie | 1974 | Je Tu Il Elle | Truck Driver | |
| Movie | 2010 | Small World | Thomas Senn | |
| Movie | 2000 | Lulu Kreutz's Picnic | Jascha Steg | |
| Movie | 2002 | Parlez-moi d'amour | Richard | |
| Movie | 1987 | Lorfou | Angelo | |
| Movie | 2012 | Our Children | André Pinget | |
| Movie | 1985 | Diesel | Nelson | |
| Movie | 1982 | One Man's War | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2023 | Divertimento | Sergiu Celibidache | |
| Movie | 1991 | Meeting Venus | Zoltan Szanto | |
| Movie | 1987 | Doux amer | Jean | |
| Movie | 1976 | Lumière | Nano | |
| Movie | 1976 | Tomorrow's Children | Philippe | |
| Movie | 2013 | The French Minister | Claude Maupas | |
| Movie | 1998 | Rewind | Fabrice Rivail | |
| Movie | 1985 | Sincerely Charlotte | Mathieu | |
| Movie | 2014 | Diplomacy | General Dietrich von Choltitz | |
| Movie | 2014 | 96 heures | Victor Kancel | |
| Movie | 1977 | Plus ça va, moins ça va | Vincent | |
| Movie | 1982 | La Cerisaie | Lopakhine | |
| Movie | 1985 | Among Wolves | Mike | |
| Movie | N/A | Tiens ferme ta couronne | ||
| Movie | 2014 | The Dune | Ruben | |
| Movie | 2006 | Fragments of Antonin | le professeur Lantier | |
| Movie | 1976 | A Second Chance | Henri Lanot | |
| Movie | 2015 | By the Sea | Michel | |
| Movie | 1994 | Délit mineur | Claude | |
| Movie | 1980 | Bruges la Morte | Hugues Viane | |
| Movie | 2015 | So Long Africa | Jacques | |
| Movie | 1980 | La Femme flic | Dominique Allier, le photographe de la MJC | |
| Movie | 1981 | Alone | Jean | |
| Movie | 1988 | Ville étrangère | Gregor Keuschnig | |
| Movie | 2017 | Return to Montauk | Walter | |
| Movie | 1988 | La Ruelle au clair de lune | Professeur Hans Klemm | |
| Movie | 1993 | Albert Savarus | Albert Savarus | |
| Movie | 2017 | See You Up There | Marcel Péricourt | |
| Movie | 1974 | Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men | Yves | |
| Movie | 2018 | At Eternity's Gate | Madman | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Sorceror's Apprentice | Danton | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Song of Roland | Le commerçant / Oton | |
| Movie | 2011 | War Horse | Grandfather | |
| Movie | 1974 | Stavisky... | Rudolph, le secrétaire de Trotski | |
| Movie | 1992 | La Femme abandonnée | Oskar de Wilno | |
| Movie | 2010 | Behind Bars | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Les Derniers Jours de la victime | Mendizábal | |
| Movie | 2021 | Villa Caprice | Luc Germon | |
| Movie | 2021 | Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur | Self - Interviewee | |
| Movie | 1987 | Charlie Dingo | William | |
| Movie | 1982 | Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff | Stan Pilgrim | |
| Movie | 1977 | Tauwetter | Jean-Luc | |
| Movie | 2000 | Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre | Fernando Krapp | |
| Movie | 1982 | La danse de mort | Kurt | |
| Movie | 1989 | Manon Roland | Danton | |
| Movie | 1989 | Barbablù, Barbablù | Gastone | |
| TV Show | 2016 | Baron Noir | Francis Laugier | 8 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Le Tourbillon des jours | Germain | 6 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Black Butterflies | Albert Desiderio | 6 |
| TV Show | 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Champs-Elysées | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2015 | Capitaine Marleau | Hervé Gerfaut | 1 |
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| Movie | 2007 | The Candidate | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2008 | Le Temps des cerises | Theatre Play | Writing |
| Movie | 2007 | The Candidate | Writer | Writing |
