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
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 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 · 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
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 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
- 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 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 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 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 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
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 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 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 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
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 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 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 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
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 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
- Future · The End as (voice)
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe