Denis Lavant
Born: 1961-06-17 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Inquisition as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The End as (voice)
- Inquisitions as L'inquisiteur
- Erratics as Lucien Le Saint
- Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- In All My Journeys I Am Returning
2025
- The Stranger as Salamano
- Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- In the Land of Arto as Rob
- Hotel Fantasma
- In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
- Hyacinthe as Reda
2024
- It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- Fracas
- Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
2023
- Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- Hood Witch as Jules
- Body of Crime
- L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- Thunder Voice as Prophet
- Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- The Green Eyes
- Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2022
- Tell Me Iggy as Self
- Le discours as Le politicien
- X14
- Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
2021
- Night of the Kings as Silence
- Tralala as Climby
- The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
2020
- Silver Skates as Fourier
- Gagarine as Gérard
- The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
2019
- The Traveller as Alberto
- The Bra as Kamal
- Girls with Balls as Barman
- The Mountain as Jack
- Figurant
- Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- Silent Streams
- Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- The Escapade as Jacques
2018
- The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- One Nation, One King as Marat
- 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- Fan Club as Damien
- My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
2017
- Gray House as Self
2016
- Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
2015
- Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- Dark Forests as Voice
- Graziella as Antoine
2014
- Mr. X as Self
- Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- Journey to the West as Dragon
- Ogaden
2013
- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- Biette as Self
- Tired of Being Handsome
- Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- Marussia as Clochard
- Je sens plus la vitesse
2012
- Square as Self
- Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- Morning Star as Elliot
- Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
2011
- My Little Princess as Ernst
- Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
- Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- Atlantika
2010
2009
- The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- The Lonely
- Les Williams
- The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- Hymn to Merde as Merde
- Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
2008
- Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
2007
- Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
2005
2004
- A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- Luminal as Ryu
2003
- Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
2002
- La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
2001
- Married/Unmarried as Love
- Şoför as The Driver
2000
- Beau Travail as Galoup
- Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- La Squale as Le joker
1999
- Tuvalu as Anton
1998
- Don Juan as Pierrot
- Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
1997
- Wild Animals as Emil
1995
- Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
1994
- The Chess Game as Max
1993
- De force avec d'autres as Denis
1991
- The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
1990
- Mona and I as Pierre
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
- Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
1983
- The Wounded Man as Wanderer
- Entre Nous as Un militaire
- After Midnight as (voice)
1982
- Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- L'Ombre sur la plage
- Paris Ficelle as Joe