The actor ofGoodbye up there died this Sunday, December 1 at the age of 75, as his press secretary announced to AFP.
French actor Niels Arestrup died this Sunday, December 1 at the age of 75 at his home in Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine), his press secretary and his wife announced to AFP.
“I have the extreme pain of announcing the death of my husband, the immense actor Niels Arestrup, at the end of a courageous fight against illness. He passed away surrounded by the love of his family,” wrote in a press release his wife, Isabelle Le Nouvel.
Born on February 8, 1949 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Niels Arestrup is one of the most emblematic figures of French cinema. During a career spanning fifty years, he appeared in dozens of films and plays.
He won the César for Best Supporting Actor three times: for My heart stopped beating et A prophet by Jacques Audiard, in 2006 and 2010, then for Quai d'Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier in 2014.
His acting career began in Brussels, on the stage, in the 1960s. An environment that he never left, developing in parallel his career on screen, mainly composed of notable supporting roles.
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