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 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 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 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 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
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 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
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- 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 · Marussia as Clochard
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 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
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 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)
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · The Countess of Monte Cristo as
- 2026 · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 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
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 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
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 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 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 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)
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as