Dominique Lavanant
Born: 1944-05-24 in Morlaix, Finistère, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress. She is known for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a particular stereotype of the French upper middle class – to be conservative in both outlook and dress. Dominique Lavanant achieved fame in the mid-1970s while filming Les bronzés with the acting troupe Le Splendid (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel).Her stardom has kept growing ever since. Her filmography includes many successful films: Papy fait de la résistance, La boum, Trois hommes et un couffin, Les bronzés font du ski, Inspecteur la Bavure (alongside Gérard Depardieu). In 1988, she was awarded Best supporting actress for her role in Agent trouble (with Catherine Deneuve). She also starred in the long-lasting French TV series Sœur Thérèse.com (2002-2011) playing a former policer who became a nun but is still a committed detective. Source: Article "Dominique Lavanant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2023
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Rouges étaient les lilas as La psy
- L'île aux femmes as Anne
2014
- Nicholas on Holiday as 'Mémé'
2013
- Le Renard jaune as Valérie
- À votre bon cœur, mesdames as Yvette
2012
- Paulette as Lucienne
- Sex, Lies and Surgery as Mademoiselle Phillips
2010
- The Wedding Cake as La mère de Vincent
2009
- Scènes de ménages as Mère de Fabien
2008
- Agathe Cléry as Mimie, la mère d'Agathe
2006
- French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever as Christiane Weissmuller
2004
- Madame Edouard as Rose
2003
2002
- Sœur Thérèse.com as Soeur Therese
2001
- A Crime in Paradise as Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- Vivement dimanche prochain as Self
1996
- Desire as Henriette
1994
- The Monster as Jolanda Taccone
- Dead Tired as Dominique Lavanant
- Ma sœur est un chic type as Claude Charmières
1993
- A Shadow of a Doubt as Alexandrine's Teacher
1992
- My Wife's Girlfriends as Marguerite
- Ville à vendre as Eva Montier
1991
- The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck as Jacqueline Vidart
- Cross My Heart as Claire's mother
1990
- Un jeu d'enfant as Léonie
1989
- Imogène as Imogène Ledantec
1988
- A Few Days with Me as Madame Fonfrin
- Palace as Assistante du ministre du tourisme
- Cinéma as Clara Moranti
- L'Excès contraire as Hanaë
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Agent Trouble as Karen
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Keep Your Right Up as Admiral's Wife
- L'Œil au beur(re) noir as Simone Perron
1986
- Kamikaze as Laure
- Le Débutant as Marguerite Balicourt
- The Joint Brothers as Un flic
- Death on a Rainy Sunday as Hazel Bronsky
- I Hate Actors as Miss Davis
1985
- Rendez-vous as Gertrude
- Marriage of the Century as Adrienne de la Roussette
- Victoires de la musique as Self
- The Chicks as Evelyne
- All Mixed Up as L'infirmière du Docteur Belin
- Three Men and a Cradle as Ms. Rapons
- Billy Ze Kick as Madame Achere
1984
- Paroles et musique as Florence
- La Smala as Pierrot-Rita
- The Leopard as Pauline Fitzgerald
1983
- Gramps Is in the Resistance as Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de Michel
- Entre Nous as L'aboyeuse
- Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising! as Mireille
- My Other Husband as Solange
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Is There a Frenchman in the House? as Ginette Alcazar
1981
- Hotel America as Jacqueline
- Why Not Us? as Jacqueline Puiset
- Is This Reasonable? as Mrs. Lavanant, restaurateur (uncredited)
- Men Prefer Fat Girls as Arlette
1980
- Umbrella Coup as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
- Inspector Blunder as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist
- The Party as Vanessa, François' ex-mistress
- The Horse of Pride as Marie-Jeanne, la sage-femme
1979
- Courage fuyons as Mathilda
- French Fried Vacation 2 as Christiane
- A Little Romance as Mme. Cormier
- Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses as Michèle, François' ex-wife
- The Other One's Mug as la fille de la chambre verte
1978
- French Fried Vacation as Christiane, the frustrated stuck one
- Butterfly on the Shoulder as La jeune femme
- Take It from the Top as La voisine
- House Specialty as Christiane
1977
- Peppermint Soda as The Math Teacher
- You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine as La reine Madeleine
- As the Moon as Yvette
1976
- Femmes Fatales as The Myopic Woman
- Marie, the Doll as Tante Alice
- Silence... We're Shooting as The porn actress who doesn't take the pill
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Cookies as Marie Pape, prostitute in Breton costume
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Parade as (uncredited)
1973
- The Big Store as La jeune femme en panne de voiture
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self