Actor
· Acting
Denis Lavant
Born 1961-06-17
📍 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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 126
The End
as (voice)
2026
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
2026
In the Land of Arto
as Rob
2025
The Stranger
as Salamano
2025
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
2025
Hyacinthe
as Reda
2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face
as Voix-off
2025
Demons to Diamonds
as The prisoner
2025
Hotel Fantasma
2025
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
2025
Fracas
2024
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
2024
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
2024
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
2024
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
2023
Body of Crime
2023
Hood Witch
as Jules
2023
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
2023
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
2023
The Green Eyes
2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
2023
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
2023
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
2022
X14
2022
Tell Me Iggy
as Self
2022
Le discours
as Le politicien
2022
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
2022
Tralala
as Climby
2021
The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders
2021
Night of the Kings
as Silence
2021
Silver Skates
as Fourier
2020
Gagarine
as Gérard
2020
The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
2020
Figurant
2019
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
2019
Girls with Balls
as Barman
2019
The Mountain
as Jack
2019
The Traveller
as Alberto
2019
Silent Streams
2019
The Bra
as Kamal
2019
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
2018
One Nation, One King
as Marat
2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
2018
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
2018
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
2018
My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen
2018
Gray House
as Self
2017
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
2016
Midnight Sun
as Pierre Carnot
2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
2016
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
2015
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
2015
Graziella
as Antoine
2015
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
2015
Dark Forests
as Voice
2015
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
2015
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
as Self (uncredited)
2014
Le mystère des jonquilles
as Sam
2014
The Iron Ivan
as Eugene de Paris
2014
Journey to the West
as Dragon
2014
Mr. X
as Self
2014
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
2013
Biette
as Self
2013
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as Self
2013
Marussia
as Clochard
2013
Tired of Being Handsome
2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
2013
Morning Star
as Elliot
2012
Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2012
Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler
2012
Square
as Self
2012
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre
2011
My Little Princess
as Ernst
2011
Atlantika
2011
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
as Bezon
2010
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
2009
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as André Custe
2009
Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")
2008
Captain Ahab
as Capitaine Achab
2008
Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin
2008
Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames
2007
Wild Camp
as Blaise
2005
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
as Self
2005
Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)
2004
A Very Long Engagement
as Six-Soux
2004
Luminal
as Ryu
2004
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader
2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (voice)
2002
Married/Unmarried
as Love
2001
Şoför
as The Driver
2001
La Squale
as Le joker
2000
Deep in the Woods
as Stephane
2000
Beau Travail
as Galoup
2000
Tuvalu
as Anton
1999
Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur
1998
Le monde à l'envers
as Yann Kerebel
1998
Don Juan
as Pierrot
1998
Wild Animals
as Emil
1997
Visiblement je vous aime
as Denis
1995
The Chess Game
as Max
1994
The Lovers on the Bridge
as Alex
1991
Mona and I
as Pierre
1990
Once Around the Park
as Berville
1989
Mauvais Sang
as Alex
1986
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner's patient
1985
Boy Meets Girl
as Alex
1984
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
1984
After Midnight
as (voice)
1983
The Wounded Man
as Wanderer
1983
Entre Nous
as Un militaire
1983
Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
1982
L'Ombre sur la plage
1982
Paris Ficelle
as Joe
1982
Waster
as Waster
The Countess of Monte Cristo