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 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 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 · Atlantika as
- 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
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 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 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- Future · Terminal as (voice)
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 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 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 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
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante