Denis Lavant

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1961-06-17

Place of Birth

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Denis Lavant

Biography

Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.

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Acting History

2025
In the Land of Arto
2025
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025
The Stranger as Salamano
2025
Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
2025
Sibyl as (Archive footage)
2025
Hyacinthe as Reda
2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
2025
Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
2025
Hotel Fantasma
2025
In the Name of Blood as Jacques
2024
Fracas
2024
Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
2024
It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
2024
The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
2023
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023
Thunder Voice as Prophet
2023
Body of Crime
2023
Hood Witch as Jules
2023
Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
2023
Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
2023
The Green Eyes
2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
2023
Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
2022
All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
2022
Aymeline as Franco Fontane
2022
X14
2022
Tell Me Iggy as Self
2022
South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
2021
Tralala as Climby
2021
The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
2021
Night of the Kings as Silence
2021
Le discours as Le politicien
2020
Silver Skates as Fourier
2020
Gagarine as Gérard
2020
The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
2019
The Escapade as Jacques
2019
Figurant
2019
Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
2019
The Bra as Kamal
2019
Girls with Balls as Barman
2019
The Mountain as Jack
2019
The Traveller as Alberto
2019
Silent Streams
2018
The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
2018
One Nation, One King as Marat
2018
Fan Club as Damien
2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
2018
3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
2018
The Night Eats the World as Alfred
2018
My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
2017
Gray House as Self
2016
Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
2016
Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
2016
History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
2015
21 Nights with Pattie as André
2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
2015
Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
2015
Graziella as Antoine
2015
Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
2015
Dark Forests as Voice
2015
Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
2014
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
2014
Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
2014
The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
2014
Journey to the West as Dragon
2014
Mr. X as Self
2014
Ogaden
2013
Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
2013
Biette as Self
2013
Les Grandes Marées as Marc
2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
2013
Marussia as Clochard
2013
Tired of Being Handsome
2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
2012
Morning Star as Elliot
2012
Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2012
Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
2012
Square as Self
2011
Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
2011
My Little Princess as Ernst
2011
Atlantika
2010
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
2009
The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
2009
Hymn to Merde as Merde
2009
The Lonely
2009
Les Williams
2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
2008
Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
2008
Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
2008
Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
2007
Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
2005
Wild Camp as Blaise
2005
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
2004
Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
2004
A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
2004
Luminal as Ryu
2003
Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
2002
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
2001
Married/Unmarried as Love
2001
Şoför as The Driver
2000
La Squale as Le joker
2000
Deep in the Woods as Stephane
2000
Beau Travail as Galoup
1999
Tuvalu as Anton
1998
Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
1998
Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
1998
Don Juan as Pierrot
1997
Wild Animals as Emil
1995
Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
1994
The Chess Game as Max
1993
De force avec d'autres as Denis
1991
The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
1990
Mona and I as Pierre
1989
Once Around the Park as Berville
1986
Mauvais Sang as Alex
1985
Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
1984
Boy Meets Girl as Alex
1984
Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
1983
After Midnight as (voice)
1983
The Wounded Man as Wanderer
1983
Entre Nous as Un militaire
1982
Les Misérables as Montparnasse
1982
Paris Ficelle as Joe
—
Que demande le peuple
—
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
—
La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo
—
Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
—
Makunaíma XXI
—
The Rose as (voice)
—
Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
—
Waster as Waster