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
2028
- Halmeoni as Dominique Brisebard
2025
- The Stranger as Salamano
- Hotel Fantasma
- In the Land of Arto as Rob
- Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- Hyacinthe as Reda
- L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
- Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
2024
- It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- Fracas
- Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
- The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
2023
- Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- Thunder Voice as Prophet
- Hood Witch as Jules
- L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- The Green Eyes
- Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
- Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- Body of Crime
- Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
2022
- X14
- South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- Tell Me Iggy as Self
- Le discours as Le politicien
- Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
2021
- Tralala as Climby
- Night of the Kings as Silence
- 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
- Girls with Balls as Barman
- Figurant
- Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- The Mountain as Jack
- The Bra as Kamal
- Silent Streams
- Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- The Escapade as Jacques
2018
- The Night Eats the World as Alfred
- The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- Fan Club as Damien
- One Nation, One King as Marat
- My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
- Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
2017
- Gray House as Self
2016
- Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
2015
- Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- Graziella as Antoine
- Dark Forests as Voice
2014
- Mr. X as Self
- Journey to the West as Dragon
- Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- Ogaden
2013
- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- Tired of Being Handsome
- Biette as Self
- Marussia as Clochard
- En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
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
- Les Williams
- The Lonely
- Hymn to Merde as Merde
- The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
2008
- Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
2007
- Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
2005
2004
- A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- Luminal as Ryu
- Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
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
- Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
- Boy Meets Girl as Alex
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