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 End as (voice)
- Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- In All My Journeys I Am Returning
- Erratics as Lucien Le Saint
2025
- The Stranger as Salamano
- Hotel Fantasma
- In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- In the Land of Arto as Rob
- Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- Hyacinthe as Reda
- L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
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
- Hood Witch as Jules
- Thunder Voice as Prophet
- Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
- The Green Eyes
- Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- Body of Crime
- L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
2022
- X14
- Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- Le discours as Le politicien
- South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 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
- Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- Silent Streams
- 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
- My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
- Fan Club as Damien
- Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
- Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
2017
- Gray House as Self
2016
- Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
2015
- Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
- Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
- Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
- 21 Nights with Pattie as André
- Graziella as Antoine
- Dark Forests as Voice
2014
- Mr. X as Self
- Journey to the West as Dragon
- The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
- Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- Ogaden
2013
- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- Tired of Being Handsome
- Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- Marussia as Clochard
- Biette as Self
- Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
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
- The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- Les Williams
- Hymn to Merde as Merde
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
- 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
- La Squale as Le joker
- Deep in the Woods as Stephane
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