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 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- Future · The End as (voice)
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 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 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 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 · 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
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 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 · 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 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 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 Eugene de Paris
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- 2008 · Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 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
- 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 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 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 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Waster as Waster