Denis Lavant

Denis Lavant

Known for
Acting
Born
June 17, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography

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.

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Filmography

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Que demande le peuple

Que demande le peuple

Movie

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La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture

La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture

Movie · as Narrateur

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Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy

Movie · as Narrator / Virgil / Dante

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Makunaíma XXI

Makunaíma XXI

Movie

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Waster poster

Waster

Movie · as Waster

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7 jours 4000 ans

7 jours 4000 ans

Movie · as (Voix)

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The Rope

The Rope

Movie

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Fol

Fol

Movie

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El soldado incendiado

El soldado incendiado

Movie

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Exécution sur ordonnance

Exécution sur ordonnance

Movie · as voix-off

2026
Redoubt poster

Redoubt

Movie · as Karl-Göran Persson

2026
Erratics poster

Erratics

Movie · as Lucien Le Saint

2026
The End poster

The End

Movie · as (voice)

2026
In All My Journeys I Am Returning poster

In All My Journeys I Am Returning

Movie

2026
The Man Without Qualities poster

The Man Without Qualities

Movie · as Ultimo Proy

2026
bbjtm poster

bbjtm

Movie · as Himself

2026
Résistance en Lumière - l'Engagement poster

Résistance en Lumière - l'Engagement

Movie · as Jean Gabin (Voix Off)

2026
The Countess of Monte Cristo poster

The Countess of Monte Cristo

TV · 8 eps

2026
The Inquisition poster

The Inquisition

TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps

2025
Hyacinthe poster

Hyacinthe

Movie · as Reda

2025
In the Land of Arto poster

In the Land of Arto

Movie · as Rob

2025
In the Name of Blood poster

In the Name of Blood

Movie · as Jacques

2025
Demons to Diamonds poster

Demons to Diamonds

Movie · as The prisoner

2025
The Stranger poster

The Stranger

Movie · as Salamano

2025
Sibyl poster

Sibyl

Movie · as (Archive footage)

2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face poster

Bacon-Freud, face à face

Movie · as Voix-off

2025
Hotel Fantasma poster

Hotel Fantasma

Movie

2025
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST

L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST

Movie

2024
It's Not Me poster

It's Not Me

Movie · as Monsieur Merde

2024
The Boy Who Owns the World poster

The Boy Who Owns the World

Movie · as Kasimir

2024
Two Night Owls in Paris poster

Two Night Owls in Paris

Movie · as Le bouquiniste

2024
Fracas poster

Fracas

Movie

2024
Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino poster

Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino

Movie · as Self

2023
Miserable Miracle poster

Miserable Miracle

Movie · as Narrator (French)

2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon poster

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon

Movie · as Self

2023
Body of Crime poster

Body of Crime

Movie

2023
Thunder Voice poster

Thunder Voice

Movie · as Prophet

2023
Hood Witch poster

Hood Witch

Movie · as Jules

2023
Poisson rouge poster

Poisson rouge

Movie · as Père de Guillaume

2023
The Green Eyes poster

The Green Eyes

Movie

2023
Human Flowers of Flesh poster

Human Flowers of Flesh

Movie · as Galoup

2023
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui poster

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui

Movie

2022
South Sentinel poster

South Sentinel

Movie · as Commandant de Royer

2022
All Effort of Men poster

All Effort of Men

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2022
X14 poster

X14

Movie

2022
Le discours poster

Le discours

Movie · as Le politicien

2022
Aymeline poster

Aymeline

Movie · as Franco Fontane

2022
Tell Me Iggy poster

Tell Me Iggy

Movie · as Self

2021
Night of the Kings poster

Night of the Kings

Movie · as Silence

2021
The Nipple Whisperer poster

The Nipple Whisperer

Movie · as Maurice Sanders

2021
Tralala poster

Tralala

Movie · as Climby

2020
Silver Skates poster

Silver Skates

Movie · as Fourier

2020
The Blue Star poster

The Blue Star

Movie · as Le Narrateur

2020
Gagarine poster

Gagarine

Movie · as Gérard

2019
Girls with Balls poster

Girls with Balls

Movie · as Barman

2019
The Escapade

The Escapade

Movie · as Jacques

2019
The Bra poster

The Bra

Movie · as Kamal

2019
The Mountain poster

The Mountain

Movie · as Jack

2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux poster

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux

Movie · as Monsieur Loyal

2019
Silent Streams poster

Silent Streams

Movie

2019
Who the Fuck Are You poster

Who the Fuck Are You

Movie · as Psychiatrist

2019
Figurant poster

Figurant

Movie

2019
The Traveller poster

The Traveller

TV · as Alberto · 1 ep

2018
Fan Club

Fan Club

Movie · as Damien

2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche poster

Scaramouche Scaramouche

Movie · as Scaramouche

2018
The Night Eats the World poster

The Night Eats the World

Movie · as Alfred

2018
One Nation, One King poster

One Nation, One King

Movie · as Marat

2018
3 Days in Quiberon poster

3 Days in Quiberon

Movie · as Fisherman Poet

2018
My Intelligent Comedy poster

My Intelligent Comedy

Movie · as Allen

2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller poster

Cornelius, the Howling Miller

Movie · as Doctor de Chomo

2018
The Emperor of Paris poster

The Emperor of Paris

Movie · as Maillard

2017
Gray House poster

Gray House

Movie · as Self

2016
History's Future

History's Future

Movie · as Lottery Ticket Seller

2016
Boris Without Beatrice poster

Boris Without Beatrice

Movie · as L'Inconnu

2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline poster

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Movie · as Louis-Ferdinand Céline

2016
Kazarken: As We Dig poster

Kazarken: As We Dig

Movie · as Chiron, le centaure

2016
Midnight Sun poster

Midnight Sun

TV · as Pierre Carnot · 8 eps

2015
Austerlitz poster

Austerlitz

Movie · as Jacques Austerlitz

2015
Me and Kaminski poster

Me and Kaminski

Movie · as Karl-Ludwig

2015
Pitchipoï poster

Pitchipoï

Movie · as Pierre Schulmann

2015
Dark Forests poster

Dark Forests

Movie · as Voice

2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep poster

Eva Doesn't Sleep

Movie · as Koenig

2015
21 Nights with Pattie poster

21 Nights with Pattie

Movie · as André

2015
Graziella poster

Graziella

Movie · as Antoine

2014
Ogaden

Ogaden

Movie

2014
Journey to the West poster

Journey to the West

Movie · as Dragon

2014
Mr. X poster

Mr. X

Movie · as Self

2014
The Iron Ivan poster

The Iron Ivan

Movie · as Eugene de Paris

2014
Le mystère des jonquilles poster

Le mystère des jonquilles

Movie · as Sam

2013
Marussia poster

Marussia

Movie · as Clochard

2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas poster

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

Movie · as The Theologist

2013
Biette poster

Biette

Movie · as Self

2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus poster

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus

Movie · as Marcel Dassault

2013
Les Grandes Marées poster

Les Grandes Marées

Movie · as Marc

2013
Jiminy

Jiminy

Movie · as Otto Hoffmann

2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel poster

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

Movie · as Self

2013
Tired of Being Handsome poster

Tired of Being Handsome

Movie

2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors poster

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

Movie · as Self

2013
Je sens plus la vitesse poster

Je sens plus la vitesse

Movie

2012
Holy Motors poster

Holy Motors

Movie · as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer

2012
Morning Star poster

Morning Star

Movie · as Elliot

2012
Eye of the Astronomer poster

Eye of the Astronomer

Movie · as Jean Kepler

2012
Square poster

Square

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2011
Atlantika poster

Atlantika

Movie

2011
My Little Princess poster

My Little Princess

Movie · as Ernst

2011
Hop-o'-My-Thumb poster

Hop-o'-My-Thumb

Movie · as The ogre

2011
Hitler in Hollywood poster

Hitler in Hollywood

Movie · as Denis Lavant

2010
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète poster

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète

Movie · as Bezon

2009
The Lonely

The Lonely

Movie

2009
The Temptation of St. Tony poster

The Temptation of St. Tony

Movie · as Count Korzybski

2009
Les Williams

Les Williams

Movie

2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir poster

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir

Movie · as (voice)

2009
Hymn to Merde poster

Hymn to Merde

Movie · as Merde

2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie poster

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

TV · as André Custe · 1 ep

2008
Tokyo! poster

Tokyo!

Movie · as Merde' (segment "Merde")

2008
Mister Lonely poster

Mister Lonely

Movie · as Charlie Chaplin

2008
Captain Ahab poster

Captain Ahab

Movie · as Capitaine Achab

2007
Happy New Year London poster

Happy New Year London

Movie · as Gerrard Ames

2005
Wild Camp poster

Wild Camp

Movie · as Blaise

2005
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" poster

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"

Movie · as Self

2004
A Very Long Engagement poster

A Very Long Engagement

Movie · as Six-Soux

2004
Language Does Not Lie poster

Language Does Not Lie

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2004
Luminal poster

Luminal

Movie · as Ryu

2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait poster

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait

Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

2003
Correspondances: Dostoïevski poster

Correspondances: Dostoïevski

Movie · as reader

2002
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan poster

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

Movie · as (voice)

2001
Married/Unmarried poster

Married/Unmarried

Movie · as Love

2001
Şoför poster

Şoför

Movie · as The Driver

2000
Deep in the Woods poster

Deep in the Woods

Movie · as Stephane

2000
Beau Travail poster

Beau Travail

Movie · as Galoup

2000
La Squale poster

La Squale

Movie · as Le joker

1999
Tuvalu poster

Tuvalu

Movie · as Anton

1998
Melody for a Hustler poster

Melody for a Hustler

Movie · as L'auto-stoppeur

1998
Don Juan poster

Don Juan

Movie · as Pierrot

1998
Le monde à l'envers poster

Le monde à l'envers

Movie · as Yann Kerebel

1997
Wild Animals poster

Wild Animals

Movie · as Emil

1995
Visiblement je vous aime poster

Visiblement je vous aime

Movie · as Denis

1994
The Chess Game poster

The Chess Game

Movie · as Max

1993
De force avec d'autres

De force avec d'autres

Movie · as Denis

1991
The Lovers on the Bridge poster

The Lovers on the Bridge

Movie · as Alex

1990
Mona and I poster

Mona and I

Movie · as Pierre

1989
Once Around the Park poster

Once Around the Park

Movie · as Berville

1986
Mauvais Sang poster

Mauvais Sang

Movie · as Alex

1985
Going and Coming Back poster

Going and Coming Back

Movie · as Simon Lerner's patient

1984
Boy Meets Girl poster

Boy Meets Girl

Movie · as Alex

1984
Long Live Life poster

Long Live Life

Movie · as Caviar delivery man

1983
After Midnight poster

After Midnight

Movie · as (voice)

1983
Entre Nous poster

Entre Nous

Movie · as Un militaire

1983
The Wounded Man poster

The Wounded Man

Movie · as Wanderer

1982
Les Misérables poster

Les Misérables

Movie · as Montparnasse

1982
Paris Ficelle poster

Paris Ficelle

Movie · as Joe

1982
L'Ombre sur la plage

L'Ombre sur la plage

Movie