<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">French-Danish actor, director and writer Nils Arestrup died today at the age of 74. He was found dead in his home outside Paris.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Death of Nils Arestrup</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:780/780;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/17c0b199-8d26-4f84-b458-3f06b4ce82d9.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Aristop's wife, actress, screenwriter and author Isabelle Le Nouvel, announced her husband's death on Sunday, writing in a press statement: "He died surrounded by the love of his family."</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl( 187, 48%, 51% );">Who is Nils Aarestrup?</span> </h3><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1080/1440;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/4a45f2a2-73b4-460d-9e6a-076060b83877.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Born to a French mother and a Danish father, Arestrup grew up in modest circumstances in Paris, and after failing his high school exams, worked odd jobs and then slowly moved into television and drama. </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1350/2000;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/764d379a-cc14-4119-bc92-1901f35adf9f.jpg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> One of his most famous films is Diplomacy by director Volker Schlöndorff, in which he played the role of General Dietrich von Choltitz, the real German military governor of occupied Paris in World War II. </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:265/190;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/e52adff3-da45-426c-b6cf-614f159fa69f.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He had a long and eventful career in theatre, which he considered his first love. He produced John Logan's play Red about the artist Rothko, for which he won the Molière Award for Best Actor in 2019.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>