After a long fight against illness, actor Niels Arestrup died on Sunday at the age of 75. On his social networks, his wife Isabelle Le Nouvel paid tribute to him with a poignant message.
After announcing his death on Sunday, Niels Arestrup's wife took to his Instagram account on December 2 to pay tribute to him. The writer Isabelle Le Nouvel shared the “last words of the autobiography” of her late husband. Words “so true, so moving”, taken from the book “All my fires”, published by the actor in 2001 (by Plon).
“From all that I have called my outbursts, my fires, only one truth emerges, a small certainty. Only one stubbornness remains, sometimes suicidal. Ultimately I have never been, never wanted to be, anything other than an actor,” she transcribed, in the caption of a portrait of Niels Arestrup. A publication which touched several of his famous friends, starting with the actors Cristina Reali and Philippe Bas.
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Sunday December 1, Isabelle Le Nouvel announced the death of her husband, at his home in Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine), at the age of 75. “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,” she wrote. He passed away surrounded by the love of his family. » The actor has shared the life of a writer for more than 20 years. After a wedding celebrated in 2012, twins were born shortly after: Emma and Henrik, 12 years old.
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Tributes from Emmanuel Macron and Tahar Rahim
Gladly keeping away from a late-acquired celebrity, Niels Arestrup had obtained his first two Césars for best supporting role for performances in front of the camera by the same director, Jacques Audiard, for “The Beat My Heart Stopped” ( 2005) and “A Prophet” (2009). In 2016, he also played one of the main roles in the political fiction series “Black Baron”, where he only agreed to play in the first season.
President Emmanuel Macron and his wife praised in a press release “a great actor of our time, demanding and popular, figure of our theater, unforgettable in cinema, guide and model for a generation of actors”. “We were dazzled by the strength of his performance and his magnetic presence in front of the camera of Jacques Audiard, Bertrand Tavernier, Julian Schnabel and Albert Dupontel. He will remain as one of our greatest actors,” the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, paid tribute to him on the X platform.
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Actor Tahar Rahim, who shared the poster for “A Prophet” with Niels Arestrup, spoke on Instagram of “a rare privilege to be at (his) side for (his) first cinema experience” and praised “ an immense actor” whose “greatness of soul” he underlined.
