| Niels Arestrup | |
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Arestrup at the 2014 César Awards
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| Born |
8 February 1949 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Children | 2 |
Niels Arestrup (French pronunciation: [nils aʁestʁyp]; born 8 February 1949) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
He 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.
Movies starring Niels Arestrup with more than a million of entries in France.