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 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 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 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 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
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · Les Williams 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
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 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
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis