Niels Arestrup

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Niels Arestrup
Arestrup at the 2014 César Awards
Born	(1949-02-08)8 February 1949 Montreuil, France
Died	1 December 2024(2024-12-01) (aged 75) Ville-d'Avray, France
Occupations	Actor film director screenwriter
Years active	1960s–2023
Spouse	Isabelle Le Nouvel ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	2

Niels Arestrup (French pronunciation: [nils aʁestʁyp]; 8 February 1949 – 1 December 2024) was a French-Danish actor, film director and screenwriter.

Arestrup was born in Paris on 8 February 1949, into a family of modest means; his father was Danish and his mother was Breton.^[1] In his youth, he studied at Tania Balachova's acting courses.^[2] He began his acting career in the theatre.

Arestrup 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.

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.

In 2012, after ten years together, Arestrup married the actress, screenwriter and author Isabelle Le Nouvel. The same year, they had twins, a boy and a girl.^[3]

Arestrup died following a long illness in Ville-d'Avray, France, on 1 December 2024 at the age of 75.^[4][5]

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