Denis Lavant
June 17, 1961 (64 years old) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 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")
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- Future · The Rose as (voice)
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 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 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 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
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 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 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Waster as Waster