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
(2026)
(2025)
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
(2025)
Hyacinthe
as Reda
(2025)
(2025)
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
(2025)
(2024)
Hood Witch
as Jules
(2024)
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
(2024)
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
(2024)
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
(2024)
(2023)
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
(2023)
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
(2023)
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
(2023)
(2023)
(2023)
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
(2023)
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
(2023)
(2022)
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
(2022)
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
(2022)
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
(2021)
Night of the Kings
as Silence
(2021)
Tralala
as Climby
(2021)
The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders
(2021)
Le discours
as Le politicien
(2020)
Silver Skates
as Fourier
(2020)
Gagarine
as Gérard
(2020)
The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
(2019)
Girls with Balls
as Barman
(2019)
The Mountain
as Jack
(2019)
The Bra
as Kamal
(2019)
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
(2019)
(2019)
The Escapade
as Jacques
(2019)
(2019)
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
(2018)
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
(2018)
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
(2018)
One Nation, One King
as Marat
(2018)
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
(2018)
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
(2018)
Fan Club
as Damien
(2018)
My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen
(2018)
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
(2017)
Gray House
as Self
(2016)
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
(2016)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
(2016)
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
(2016)
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
(2015)
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
(2015)
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
(2015)
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
(2015)
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
(2015)
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
(2015)
Dark Forests
as Voice
(2015)
Graziella
as Antoine
(2014)
The Iron Ivan
as Poddubny's Coach
(2014)
Mr. X
as Self
(2014)
Journey to the West
as Dragon
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
(2013)
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
(2013)
Biette
as Self
(2013)
Marussia
as Clochard
(2013)
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
(2013)
(2013)
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
(2013)
(2013)
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
(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)
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre
(2011)
(2010)
(2009)
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
(2009)
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
(2009)
(2009)
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
(2009)
(2008)
Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")
(2008)
Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin
(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)
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2003)
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader
(2002)
(2001)
Married/Unmarried
as Love
(2001)
Şoför
as The Driver
(2000)
Beau Travail
as Galoup
(2000)
Deep in the Woods
as Stephane
(2000)
La Squale
as Le joker
(1999)
Tuvalu
as Anton
(1998)
Don Juan
as Pierrot
(1998)
Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur
(1998)
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
(1984)
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
(1983)
The Wounded Man
as Wanderer
(1983)
Entre Nous
as Un militaire
(1983)
After Midnight
as (voice)
(1982)
Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
(1982)
Paris Ficelle
as Joe
Crew
(2024)
Fracas
Writer