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 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 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 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 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 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2012 · Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 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")
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 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
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1984 · Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- 1983 · The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983 · Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 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 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 2018 · Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1985 · Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1984 · Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- Future · Waster as Waster
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as