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 · In the Land of Arto as
- 2025 · The Stranger as
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 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 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 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 · 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
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 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
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015 · Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015 · Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015 · Graziella as Antoine
- 2015 · Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 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 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette 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 · Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 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
- 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
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 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
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1989 · Once Around the Park as Berville
- 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 · Que demande le peuple as
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1990 · Mona and I as Pierre
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- Future · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025 · DEMONS TO DIAMONDS 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 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2021 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 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
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)