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 · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
- 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
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1986 · Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · The Countess of Monte Cristo as
- 2028 · Halmeoni as Dominique Brisebard
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 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
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · The Lonely 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
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 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 · L'Ombre sur la plage as
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur