6.8Acting
Denis Lavant
- Born
- 1961-06-17
- Birthplace
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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
Filmography
149 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Erratics
2026 · Movie
Lucien Le Saint
In All My Journeys I Am Returning
2026 · Movie
Cast
Inquisitions
2026 · Movie
L'inquisiteur
Redoubt
2026 · Movie
Karl-Göran Persson
The End
2026 · Movie
(voice)
The Inquisition
2026 · TV Show
Self - Narrator (voice)
Bacon-Freud, face à face
2025 · Movie
Voix-off
Demons to Diamonds
2025 · Movie
The prisoner
Hotel Fantasma
2025 · Movie
Cast
Hyacinthe
2025 · Movie
Reda
In the Land of Arto
2025 · Movie
Rob
In the Name of Blood
2025 · Movie
Jacques
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025 · Movie
Cast
Sibyl
2025 · Movie
(Archive footage)
The Stranger
2025 · Movie
Salamano
Fracas
2024 · Movie
Cast · Writer
It's Not Me
2024 · Movie
Monsieur Merde
The Boy Who Owns the World
2024 · Movie
Kasimir
Two Night Owls in Paris
2024 · Movie
Le bouquiniste
Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
2024 · Movie
Self
Body of Crime
2023 · Movie
Cast
Hood Witch
2023 · Movie
Jules
Human Flowers of Flesh
2023 · Movie
Galoup
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2023 · Movie
Self
Miserable Miracle
2023 · Movie
Narrator (French)
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023 · Movie
Cast
Poisson rouge
2023 · Movie
Père de Guillaume
The Green Eyes
2023 · Movie
Cast
Thunder Voice
2023 · Movie
Prophet
All Effort of Men
2022 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Aymeline
2022 · Movie
Franco Fontane
Le discours
2022 · Movie
Le politicien
South Sentinel
2022 · Movie
Commandant de Royer
Tell Me Iggy
2022 · Movie
Self
X14
2022 · Movie
Cast
Night of the Kings
2021 · Movie
Silence
The Nipple Whisperer
2021 · Movie
Maurice Sanders
Tralala
2021 · Movie
Climby
Gagarine
2020 · Movie
Gérard
Silver Skates
2020 · Movie
Fourier
The Blue Star
2020 · Movie
Le Narrateur
Figurant
2019 · Movie
Cast
Girls with Balls
2019 · Movie
Barman
Silent Streams
2019 · Movie
Cast
The Bra
2019 · Movie
Kamal
The Escapade
2019 · Movie
Jacques
The Mountain
2019 · Movie
Jack
The Traveller
2019 · TV Show
Alberto
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
2019 · Movie
Monsieur Loyal
Who the Fuck Are You
2019 · Movie
Psychiatrist
3 Days in Quiberon
2018 · Movie
Fisherman Poet
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2018 · Movie
Doctor de Chomo
Fan Club
2018 · Movie
Damien
My Intelligent Comedy
2018 · Movie
Allen
One Nation, One King
2018 · Movie
Marat
Scaramouche Scaramouche
2018 · Movie
Scaramouche
The Emperor of Paris
2018 · Movie
Maillard
The Night Eats the World
2018 · Movie
Alfred
Gray House
2017 · Movie
Self
Boris Without Beatrice
2016 · Movie
L'Inconnu
History's Future
2016 · Movie
Lottery Ticket Seller
Kazarken: As We Dig
2016 · Movie
Chiron, le centaure
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016 · Movie
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Midnight Sun
2016 · TV Show
Pierre Carnot
21 Nights with Pattie
2015 · Movie
André
Austerlitz
2015 · Movie
Jacques Austerlitz
Dark Forests
2015 · Movie
Voice
Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015 · Movie
Koenig
Graziella
2015 · Movie
Antoine
Me and Kaminski
2015 · Movie
Karl-Ludwig
Pitchipoï
2015 · Movie
Pierre Schulmann
Journey to the West
2014 · Movie
Dragon
Le mystère des jonquilles
2014 · Movie
Sam
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014 · Movie
Self (uncredited)
Mr. X
2014 · Movie
Self
Ogaden
2014 · Movie
Cast
The Iron Ivan
2014 · Movie
Eugene de Paris
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013 · Movie
The Theologist
Biette
2013 · Movie
Self
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013 · Movie
Self
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013 · Movie
Self
Je sens plus la vitesse
2013 · Movie
Cast
Jiminy
2013 · Movie
Otto Hoffmann
Les Grandes Marées
2013 · Movie
Marc
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013 · Movie
Marcel Dassault
Marussia
2013 · Movie
Clochard
Tired of Being Handsome
2013 · Movie
Cast
Eye of the Astronomer
2012 · Movie
Jean Kepler
Holy Motors
2012 · Movie
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Morning Star
2012 · Movie
Elliot
Square
2012 · TV Show
Self
Atlantika
2011 · Movie
Cast
Hitler in Hollywood
2011 · Movie
Denis Lavant
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
2011 · Movie
The ogre
My Little Princess
2011 · Movie
Ernst
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010 · Movie
Bezon
Hymn to Merde
2009 · Movie
Merde
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009 · Movie
(voice)
Les Williams
2009 · Movie
Cast
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009 · TV Show
André Custe
The Lonely
2009 · Movie
Cast
The Temptation of St. Tony
2009 · Movie
Count Korzybski
Captain Ahab
2008 · Movie
Capitaine Achab
Mister Lonely
2008 · Movie
Charlie Chaplin
Tokyo!
2008 · Movie
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Happy New Year London
2007 · Movie
Gerrard Ames
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005 · Movie
Self
Wild Camp
2005 · Movie
Blaise
A Very Long Engagement
2004 · Movie
Six-Soux
Language Does Not Lie
2004 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Luminal
2004 · Movie
Ryu
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2003 · Movie
reader
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
2003 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002 · Movie
(voice)
Married/Unmarried
2001 · Movie
Love
Şoför
2001 · Movie
The Driver
Beau Travail
2000 · Movie
Galoup
Deep in the Woods
2000 · Movie
Stephane
La Squale
2000 · Movie
Le joker
Tuvalu
1999 · Movie
Anton
Don Juan
1998 · Movie
Pierrot
Le monde à l'envers
1998 · Movie
Yann Kerebel
Melody for a Hustler
1998 · Movie
L'auto-stoppeur
Wild Animals
1997 · Movie
Emil
Visiblement je vous aime
1995 · Movie
Denis
The Chess Game
1994 · Movie
Max
De force avec d'autres
1993 · Movie
Denis
The Lovers on the Bridge
1991 · Movie
Alex
Mona and I
1990 · Movie
Pierre
Once Around the Park
1989 · Movie
Berville
Mauvais Sang
1986 · Movie
Alex
Going and Coming Back
1985 · Movie
Simon Lerner's patient
Boy Meets Girl
1984 · Movie
Alex
Long Live Life
1984 · Movie
Caviar delivery man
After Midnight
1983 · Movie
(voice)
Entre Nous
1983 · Movie
Un militaire
The Wounded Man
1983 · Movie
Wanderer
L'Ombre sur la plage
1982 · Movie
Cast
Les Misérables
1982 · Movie
Montparnasse
Paris Ficelle
1982 · Movie
Joe
7 jours 4000 ans
Date unknown · Movie
(Voix)
Dante's Divine Comedy
Date unknown · Movie
Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Fol
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Date unknown · Movie
Narrateur
Makunaíma XXI
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
Que demande le peuple
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Date unknown · TV Show
Cast
The Rope
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
Waster
Date unknown · Movie
Waster