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 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 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 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 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 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 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 · The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 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 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 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 · 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 Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- 2008 · Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 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
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- Future · The Rose as (voice)
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 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
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 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
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 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
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint