Actor
Denis Lavant
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Sauver les morts |
2025 -- Hyacinthe | Reda
2025 -- DEMONS TO DIAMONDS |
2025 -- In the Name of Blood | Jacques
2024 -- Fracas |
2024 -- Two Night Owls in Paris | Le bouquiniste
2024 -- It's Not Me | Monsieur Merde
2024 -- Hood Witch | Jules
2024 -- The Boy Who Owns the World | Kasimir
2023 -- Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui |
2023 -- Thunder Voice | Prophet
2023 -- Body of Crime |
2023 -- Poisson rouge | Père de Guillaume
2023 -- Miserable Miracle | Narrator (French)
2023 -- The Green Eyes |
2023 -- L'Impossible Monsieur Simon | Self
2023 -- Human Flowers of Flesh | Galoup
2022 -- All Effort of Men | Narrator (voice)
2022 -- Aymeline | Franco Fontane
2022 -- X14 |
2022 -- South Sentinel | Commandant de Royer
2021 -- Tralala | Climby
2021 -- The Nipple Whisperer | Maurice Sanders
2021 -- Night of the Kings | Silence
2021 -- Le discours | Le politicien
2020 -- Silver Skates | Fourier
2020 -- Gagarine | Gérard
2020 -- The Blue Star | Le Narrateur
2019 -- The Escapade | Jacques
2019 -- Figurant |
2019 -- Who the Fuck Are You | Psychiatrist
2019 -- Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux | Monsieur Loyal
2019 -- The Bra | Kamal
2019 -- Girls with Balls | Barman
2019 -- The Mountain | Jack
2019 -- Silent Streams |
2018 -- The Emperor of Paris | Maillard
2018 -- Scaramouche Scaramouche | Scaramouche
2018 -- One Nation, One King | Marat
2018 -- Fan Club | Damien
2018 -- Cornelius, the Howling Miller | Doctor de Chomo
2018 -- 3 Days in Quiberon | Fisherman Poet
2018 -- The Night Eats the World | Alfred
2018 -- My Intelligent Comedy | Himself
2017 -- Gray House | Self
2016 -- Kazarken: As We Dig | Chiron, le centaure
2016 -- Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016 -- Boris Without Beatrice | L'Inconnu
2016 -- History's Future | Lottery Ticket Seller
2015 -- 21 Nights with Pattie | André
2015 -- Eva Doesn't Sleep | Koenig
2015 -- Me and Kaminski | Karl-Ludwig
2015 -- Graziella | Antoine
2015 -- Austerlitz | Jacques Austerlitz
2015 -- Dark Forests | Voice
2015 -- Pitchipoï | Pierre Schulmann
2014 -- Le mystère des jonquilles | Sam
2014 -- The Iron Ivan |
2014 -- Journey to the West | Dragon
2014 -- Mr. X | Self
2014 -- Ogaden |
2013 -- Jiminy | Otto Hoffmann
2013 -- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas | The Theologist
2013 -- Biette | Self
2013 -- Les Grandes Marées | Marc
2013 -- En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel | Self
2013 -- Marussia | Clochard
2013 -- Tired of Being Handsome |
2013 -- Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus | Marcel Dassault
2013 -- DRIVE IN Holy Motors | Self
2012 -- Morning Star | Elliot
2012 -- Holy Motors | Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2012 -- Eye of the Astronomer | Jean Kepler
2011 -- Hop-o'-My-Thumb | The ogre
2011 -- My Little Princess | Ernst
2011 -- Atlantika |
2010 -- Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète | Bezon
2009 -- The Temptation of St. Tony | Count Korzybski
2009 -- Hymn to Merde | Merde
2009 -- The Lonely |
2009 -- Les Williams |
2009 -- Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir | (voice)
2008 -- Tokyo! | Merde' (segment "Merde")
2008 -- Captain Ahab | Capitaine Achab
2008 -- Mister Lonely | Charlie Chaplin
2007 -- Happy New Year London | Gerrard Ames
2005 -- Wild Camp | Blaise
2004 -- Language Does Not Lie | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- A Very Long Engagement | Six-Soux
2004 -- Luminal | Ryu
2003 -- Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait | Self - Narrator (voice)
2002 -- La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (voice)
2001 -- Married/Unmarried | Love
2001 -- Şoför |
2000 -- La Squale | Le joker
2000 -- Deep in the Woods | Stephane
2000 -- Beau Travail | Galoup
1999 -- Tuvalu | Anton
1998 -- Melody for a Hustler | L'auto-stoppeur
1998 -- Le monde à l'envers | Yann Kerebel
1998 -- Don Juan | Pierrot
1997 -- Wild Animals | Emil
1995 -- Visiblement je vous aime | Denis
1994 -- The Chess Game | Max
1993 -- De force avec d'autres | Denis
1991 -- The Lovers on the Bridge | Alex
1990 -- Mona and I | Pierre
1989 -- Once Around the Park | Berville
1986 -- Mauvais Sang | Alex
1985 -- Going and Coming Back | Simon Lerner's patient
1984 -- Boy Meets Girl | Alex
1984 -- Long Live Life | Caviar delivery man
1984 -- After Midnight |
1983 -- The Wounded Man | Wanderer
1983 -- Entre Nous | Un militaire
1982 -- Les Misérables | Montparnasse
1982 -- Paris Ficelle | Joe
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