Denis Lavant
June 17, 1961 (65 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 · The Countess of Monte Cristo as
- 2026 · Erratics as Lucien Le Saint
- 2026 · The Inquisition as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2026 · Inquisitions as L'inquisiteur
- 2026 · In All My Journeys I Am Returning as
- 2026 · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 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 · Silent Streams as
- 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 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 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 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Je sens plus la vitesse as
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
- 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 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 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 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 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
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- Future · The Rope as
- 2026 · The Man Without Qualities as Ultimo Proy
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2024 · Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- Future · 7 jours 4000 ans as (Voix)
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- Future · Fol as
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2026 · bbjtm as Himself
- 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 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur