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 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 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 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 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 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 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 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- 2008 · Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 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 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 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
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- Future · The Rose as (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- Future · Waster as Waster