Denis Lavant
June 17, 1961 (65 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
- 2026 · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 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
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 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
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- Future · The Countess of Monte Cristo as
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- Future · 7 jours 4000 ans as (Voix)
- 2026 · In All My Journeys I Am Returning as
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2024 · Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 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
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 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 as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 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
- 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
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur