Denis Lavant
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-06-17 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
Dante's Divine Comedy
as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Erratic Blocks
as Lucien Le Saint
(2025)
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
(2025)
(2025)
(2025)
(2025)
Hyacinthe
as Reda
(2025)
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
(2025)
Bacon-Freud, face à face
as Voix-off
(2024)
Hood Witch
as Jules
(2024)
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
(2024)
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
(2024)
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
(2024)
(2023)
(2023)
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
(2023)
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
(2023)
(2023)
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
(2023)
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
(2023)
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
(2023)
(2022)
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
(2022)
(2022)
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
(2021)
The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders
(2021)
Night of the Kings
as Silence
(2021)
Tralala
as Climby
(2021)
Le discours
as Le politicien
(2020)
Silver Skates
as Fourier
(2020)
Gagarine
as Gérard
(2020)
The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
(2019)
The Mountain
as Jack
(2019)
Girls with Balls
as Barman
(2019)
The Bra
as Kamal
(2019)
(2019)
The Escapade
as Jacques
(2019)
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
(2019)
(2019)
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
(2018)
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
(2018)
One Nation, One King
as Marat
(2018)
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
(2018)
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
(2018)
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
(2018)
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
(2018)
My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen
(2018)
Fan Club
as Damien
(2017)
Gray House
as Self
(2016)
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
(2016)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
(2016)
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
(2016)
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
(2015)
Graziella
as Antoine
(2015)
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
(2015)
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
(2015)
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
(2015)
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
(2015)
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
(2015)
Dark Forests
as Voice
(2014)
The Iron Ivan
as Poddubny's Coach
(2014)
Mr. X
as Self
(2014)
Journey to the West
as Dragon
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
Biette
as Self
(2013)
Marussia
as Clochard
(2013)
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
(2013)
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
(2013)
(2013)
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
(2013)
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
(2013)
(2013)
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
(2012)
Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
(2012)
Morning Star
as Elliot
(2012)
Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler
(2011)
My Little Princess
as Ernst
(2011)
(2011)
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre
(2010)
(2009)
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
(2009)
(2009)
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
(2009)
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
(2009)
(2008)
Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin
(2008)
Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")
(2008)
Captain Ahab
as Capitaine Achab
(2007)
Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames
(2005)
Wild Camp
as Blaise
(2005)
(2004)
A Very Long Engagement
as Six-Soux
(2004)
Luminal
as Ryu
(2004)
Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader
(2003)
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2002)
(2001)
Married/Unmarried
as Love
(2001)
Şoför
as The Driver
(2000)
Beau Travail
as Galoup
(2000)
La Squale
as Le joker
(2000)
Deep in the Woods
as Stephane
(1999)
Tuvalu
as Anton
(1998)
Don Juan
as Pierrot
(1998)
Le monde à l'envers
as Yann Kerebel
(1998)
Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur
(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
(1984)
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
(1983)
Entre Nous
as Un militaire
(1983)
After Midnight
as (voice)
(1983)
The Wounded Man
as Wanderer
(1982)
Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
(1982)
Paris Ficelle
as Joe
Crew
(2024)
Fracas
Writer