
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
Que demande le peuple
Movie
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Movie · as Narrateur
Dante's Divine Comedy
Movie · as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Makunaíma XXI
Movie

Waster
Movie · as Waster
7 jours 4000 ans
Movie · as (Voix)
The Rope
Movie
Fol
Movie
El soldado incendiado
Movie
Exécution sur ordonnance
Movie · as voix-off

Redoubt
Movie · as Karl-Göran Persson

Erratics
Movie · as Lucien Le Saint

The End
Movie · as (voice)

In All My Journeys I Am Returning
Movie

The Man Without Qualities
Movie · as Ultimo Proy

bbjtm
Movie · as Himself

Résistance en Lumière - l'Engagement
Movie · as Jean Gabin (Voix Off)

The Countess of Monte Cristo
TV · 8 eps

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

Hyacinthe
Movie · as Reda

In the Land of Arto
Movie · as Rob

In the Name of Blood
Movie · as Jacques

Demons to Diamonds
Movie · as The prisoner

The Stranger
Movie · as Salamano

Sibyl
Movie · as (Archive footage)

Bacon-Freud, face à face
Movie · as Voix-off

Hotel Fantasma
Movie
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
Movie

It's Not Me
Movie · as Monsieur Merde

The Boy Who Owns the World
Movie · as Kasimir

Two Night Owls in Paris
Movie · as Le bouquiniste

Fracas
Movie

Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
Movie · as Self

Miserable Miracle
Movie · as Narrator (French)

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Movie · as Self

Body of Crime
Movie

Thunder Voice
Movie · as Prophet

Hood Witch
Movie · as Jules

Poisson rouge
Movie · as Père de Guillaume

The Green Eyes
Movie

Human Flowers of Flesh
Movie · as Galoup

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Movie

South Sentinel
Movie · as Commandant de Royer

All Effort of Men
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

X14
Movie

Le discours
Movie · as Le politicien

Aymeline
Movie · as Franco Fontane

Tell Me Iggy
Movie · as Self

Night of the Kings
Movie · as Silence

The Nipple Whisperer
Movie · as Maurice Sanders

Tralala
Movie · as Climby

Silver Skates
Movie · as Fourier

The Blue Star
Movie · as Le Narrateur

Gagarine
Movie · as Gérard

Girls with Balls
Movie · as Barman
The Escapade
Movie · as Jacques

The Bra
Movie · as Kamal

The Mountain
Movie · as Jack

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Movie · as Monsieur Loyal

Silent Streams
Movie

Who the Fuck Are You
Movie · as Psychiatrist

Figurant
Movie

The Traveller
TV · as Alberto · 1 ep
Fan Club
Movie · as Damien

Scaramouche Scaramouche
Movie · as Scaramouche

The Night Eats the World
Movie · as Alfred

One Nation, One King
Movie · as Marat

3 Days in Quiberon
Movie · as Fisherman Poet

My Intelligent Comedy
Movie · as Allen

Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Movie · as Doctor de Chomo

The Emperor of Paris
Movie · as Maillard

Gray House
Movie · as Self
History's Future
Movie · as Lottery Ticket Seller

Boris Without Beatrice
Movie · as L'Inconnu

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Movie · as Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Kazarken: As We Dig
Movie · as Chiron, le centaure

Midnight Sun
TV · as Pierre Carnot · 8 eps

Austerlitz
Movie · as Jacques Austerlitz

Me and Kaminski
Movie · as Karl-Ludwig

Pitchipoï
Movie · as Pierre Schulmann

Dark Forests
Movie · as Voice

Eva Doesn't Sleep
Movie · as Koenig

21 Nights with Pattie
Movie · as André

Graziella
Movie · as Antoine
Ogaden
Movie

Journey to the West
Movie · as Dragon

Mr. X
Movie · as Self

The Iron Ivan
Movie · as Eugene de Paris

Le mystère des jonquilles
Movie · as Sam

Marussia
Movie · as Clochard

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Movie · as The Theologist

Biette
Movie · as Self

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Movie · as Marcel Dassault

Les Grandes Marées
Movie · as Marc
Jiminy
Movie · as Otto Hoffmann

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Movie · as Self

Tired of Being Handsome
Movie

DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Movie · as Self

Je sens plus la vitesse
Movie

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

Morning Star
Movie · as Elliot

Eye of the Astronomer
Movie · as Jean Kepler

Square
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Atlantika
Movie

My Little Princess
Movie · as Ernst

Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Movie · as The ogre

Hitler in Hollywood
Movie · as Denis Lavant

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Movie · as Bezon
The Lonely
Movie

The Temptation of St. Tony
Movie · as Count Korzybski
Les Williams
Movie

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
Movie · as (voice)

Hymn to Merde
Movie · as Merde

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV · as André Custe · 1 ep

Tokyo!
Movie · as Merde' (segment "Merde")

Mister Lonely
Movie · as Charlie Chaplin

Captain Ahab
Movie · as Capitaine Achab

Happy New Year London
Movie · as Gerrard Ames

Wild Camp
Movie · as Blaise

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Movie · as Self

A Very Long Engagement
Movie · as Six-Soux

Language Does Not Lie
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Luminal
Movie · as Ryu

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

Correspondances: Dostoïevski
Movie · as reader

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Movie · as (voice)

Married/Unmarried
Movie · as Love

Şoför
Movie · as The Driver

Deep in the Woods
Movie · as Stephane

Beau Travail
Movie · as Galoup

La Squale
Movie · as Le joker

Tuvalu
Movie · as Anton

Melody for a Hustler
Movie · as L'auto-stoppeur

Don Juan
Movie · as Pierrot

Le monde à l'envers
Movie · as Yann Kerebel

Wild Animals
Movie · as Emil

Visiblement je vous aime
Movie · as Denis

The Chess Game
Movie · as Max
De force avec d'autres
Movie · as Denis

The Lovers on the Bridge
Movie · as Alex

Mona and I
Movie · as Pierre

Once Around the Park
Movie · as Berville

Mauvais Sang
Movie · as Alex

Going and Coming Back
Movie · as Simon Lerner's patient

Boy Meets Girl
Movie · as Alex

Long Live Life
Movie · as Caviar delivery man

After Midnight
Movie · as (voice)

Entre Nous
Movie · as Un militaire

The Wounded Man
Movie · as Wanderer

Les Misérables
Movie · as Montparnasse

Paris Ficelle
Movie · as Joe
L'Ombre sur la plage
Movie



