Denis Lavant
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 17 June 1961 · 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
Acting 142
- 2028Halmeoni as Dominique Brisebard
- 20267 jours 4000 ans as (Voix)
- 2026Inquisitions as L'inquisiteur
- 2026Que demande le peuple
- 2026The Rope
- 2026In All My Journeys I Am Returning
- 2026The End as (voice)
- 2026Makunaíma XXI
- 2026Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2026Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2026La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2025In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025Waster as Waster
- 2025L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
- 2025The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 2025Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2025Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2025Hotel Fantasma
- 2025In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
- 2024Fracas
- 2024Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2024It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
- 2023Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023Body of Crime
- 2023Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2023The Green Eyes
- 2023L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2023Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022X14
- 2022Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022Le discours as Le politicien
- 2022South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021Tralala as Climby
- 2021The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020Gagarine as Gérard
- 2020The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019Figurant
- 2019Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019The Mountain as Jack
- 2019Silent Streams
- 2019The Bra as Kamal
- 2018The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018Fan Club as Damien
- 2018Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- 20183 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- 2018The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- 2018My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- 2017Gray House as Self
- 2016Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2016Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 201521 Nights with Pattie as André
- 2015Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 2015Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- 2015Graziella as Antoine
- 2015Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 2015Dark Forests as Voice
- 2015Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- 2014Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014Mr. X as Self
- 2014Ogaden
- 2013Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013Biette as Self
- 2013Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2013Marussia as Clochard
- 2013Tired of Being Handsome
- 2013Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012Morning Star as Elliot
- 2012Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- 2012Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
- 2011Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2011Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
- 2011Atlantika
- 2010Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 2009The Lonely
- 2009Les Williams
- 2009Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2008Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- 2008Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2008Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2007Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2005Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 2004A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004Luminal as Ryu
- 2003Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2003Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2001Şoför as The Driver
- 2000La Squale as Le joker
- 2000Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1999Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1998Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1998Don Juan as Pierrot
- 1997Wild Animals as Emil
- 1995Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- 1994The Chess Game as Max
- 1993De force avec d'autres as Denis
- 1991The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- 1990Mona and I as Pierre
- 1989Once Around the Park as Berville
- 1986Mauvais Sang as Alex
- 1985Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
- 1984Boy Meets Girl as Alex
- 1984Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- 1983After Midnight as (voice)
- 1983The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- 1983Entre Nous as Un militaire
- 1982Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982L'Ombre sur la plage
- 1982Paris Ficelle as Joe
Writing 1
- 2024Fracas · writer