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 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 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
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 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 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 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
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 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
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 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
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 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
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 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
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel