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
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 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 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 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 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 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 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
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 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
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2025 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 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 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · The Rose as (voice)
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 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 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 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 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur