Denis Lavant
June 17, 1961 (63 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 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 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
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 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
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 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 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 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
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 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 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 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 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · The Stranger as
- 2026 · Le Pays d’Arto as
- 2025 · DEMONS TO DIAMONDS as
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- Future · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 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 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante