French-Danish actor, director and writer Niels Arestrup, known for his César Award-winning performance in Jacques Audiard. The rhythm that my heart skipped and prophetHe died at his home outside Paris at the age of 75.
Aristrup's wife, actress, screenwriter and author Isabelle Le Nouvel, announced her husband's death on Sunday.
The actor won a record three French Césars during his career, the last of which was Bertrand Tavernier's political satire. French Minister (Quai d'Orsay).
Aristrup was born to a French mother from Brittany and a Danish father and grew up in humble circumstances in Paris. After failing his high school exams, he did odd jobs and then slowly moved into television and drama.
in prophetAristrup played the ruthless Corsican gangster Cesare Luciani, who enlists the help of the novel's protagonist, Malik (Tahar Rahim), and offers him a life of crime in exchange for his protection.
More highlights of Arestrup's career included Volker Schlöndorff Diplomacyin which he played General Dietrich von Choltitz, the real-life German military governor of occupied Paris in World War II, opposite André Dussolier as Swedish Consul General Raoul Nordling, as he attempts to save the city from destruction.
More recently, Aristrup has appeared in a number of high-profile French television dramas, written by Ziad Douiri Baron Noir and Les Papillon Noir.
He has also had a prolific career in theatre, his first love, with his most recent credits including a production of the play John Logan. red About the artist Rothko, for which he won the Molière Award for Best Actor in 2019.
