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