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 · Le Pays d’Arto as
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- Future · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2025 · DEMONS TO DIAMONDS as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 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 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 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 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · The Stranger as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 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 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 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
- 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
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 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 · 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
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur