Niels Arestrup passed away at the age of 75. The three-time Caesar winner leaves behind two young children, born from his marriage to Isabelle Le Nouvel.
French cinema has been in mourning since the announcement of the death of Niels Arestrup. The triple Caesarean actor died this Sunday, December 1 at the age of 75, his press secretary and his wife announced to AFP. “I am extremely sad to announce the death of my husband, the immense actor Niels Arestrup, after a courageous fight against illness. He passed away surrounded by the love of his family.”we can read in a press release. The star of Quai d'Orsay leaves behind his wife Isabelle Le Nouvel, the mother of his twins.
Isabelle Le Nouvel in mourning: who is the wife of Niels Arestrup, 25 years his junior?
Niels Arestrup shared his life with Isabelle Le Nouvel, a 51-year-old French playwright, writer and screenwriter. It was on the stage that the lovebirds met in the early 2000s when she was hired as an assistant to the actor for the production of the play X. It was love at first sight between the duo who would work together many times over the years. We think in particular of the film The Candidate (2007), short film L’invitation (2009) as well as the parts Republican wives (2006), Beirut Hotel (2007) or even Skorpios in the distance (2018). The actor also helped her direct her first play, Big Applein January 2014. In parallel with her career in the theater, Isabelle Le Nouvel published two novels and starred in around ten feature films including The enchanted parenthesis by Michel Spinosa.
Niels Arestrup and Isabelle Le Nouvel, parents of twins born in 2012
After ten years of living together, Niels Arestrup and Isabelle Le Nouvel said “yes” to each other at Ville-d’Avray town hallin Hauts-de-Seine. Together, they became the happy parents of two twinsa girl and a boy, now 12 years old. Usually discreet about his private life, the Caesarized actor made an exception by speaking openly about the love he has for his wife. “It turns out that I fell in love late, very late. I was around fifty years old. I fell in love with the woman who became my wife and the woman with whom I had these two children”he confided on the set ofAs an aside.
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