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 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 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 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 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
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 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 · The Lonely 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
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 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
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 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 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 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
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 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
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 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 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 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
- 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 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Waster as Waster