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
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 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 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 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 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 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 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 Lonely as
- 2009 · The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- 2008 · Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 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 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · The End as (voice)
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 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
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 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
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 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