Denis Lavant
June 17, 1961 (64 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
- 2025 · In the Land of Arto as Rob
- 2025 · The Stranger as Salamano
- 2025 · Sibyl as (Archive footage)
- 2025 · Hyacinthe as Reda
- 2025 · Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
- 2025 · Hotel Fantasma as
- 2025 · In the Name of Blood as Jacques
- 2024 · Fracas as
- 2024 · It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
- 2024 · The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
- 2023 · Body of Crime as
- 2023 · Hood Witch as Jules
- 2023 · Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
- 2023 · Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
- 2022 · Aymeline as Franco Fontane
- 2022 · X14 as
- 2022 · Tell Me Iggy as Self
- 2022 · South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
- 2021 · Tralala as Climby
- 2021 · The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
- 2021 · Night of the Kings as Silence
- 2020 · Silver Skates as Fourier
- 2020 · Gagarine as Gérard
- 2019 · The Escapade as Jacques
- 2019 · Figurant as
- 2019 · Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
- 2019 · The Bra as Kamal
- 2019 · Girls with Balls as Barman
- 2019 · The Mountain as Jack
- 2019 · The Traveller as Alberto
- 2018 · The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
- 2018 · Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
- 2018 · One Nation, One King as Marat
- 2018 · Fan Club as Damien
- 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
- 2017 · Gray House as Self
- 2016 · Midnight Sun as Pierre Carnot
- 2016 · Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- 2016 · Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
- 2016 · History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
- 2015 · 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 · Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
- 2014 · Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
- 2014 · Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
- 2014 · The Iron Ivan as Poddubny's Coach
- 2014 · Journey to the West as Dragon
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2014 · Ogaden as
- 2013 · Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
- 2013 · Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
- 2013 · Biette as Self
- 2013 · Marussia as Clochard
- 2013 · Tired of Being Handsome as
- 2013 · Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
- 2013 · DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
- 2012 · 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
- 2011 · My Little Princess as Ernst
- 2010 · Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
- 2009 · The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
- 2009 · The Lonely as
- 2009 · The Little Murders of Agatha Christie as André Custe
- 2008 · Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
- 2008 · Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
- 2008 · Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
- 2007 · Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
- 2005 · Wild Camp as Blaise
- 2005 · Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
- 2004 · A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
- 2004 · Luminal as Ryu
- 2003 · Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
- 2001 · Married/Unmarried as Love
- 2001 · Şoför as The Driver
- 2000 · La Squale as Le joker
- 2000 · Deep in the Woods as Stephane
- 2000 · Beau Travail as Galoup
- 1999 · Tuvalu as Anton
- 1998 · Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
- 1997 · Wild Animals as Emil
- 1991 · The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
- Future · La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo as
- 1998 · Don Juan as Pierrot
- 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
- Future · The End as (voice)
- 2025 · L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST as
- 2025 · Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
- 2024 · Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
- 2023 · Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui as
- 2023 · Thunder Voice as Prophet
- 2023 · The Green Eyes as
- 2023 · L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
- 2023 · Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
- 2022 · All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Le discours as Le politicien
- 2020 · The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
- 2019 · Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
- 2019 · Silent Streams as
- 2016 · Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
- 2015 · Dark Forests as Voice
- 2013 · Les Grandes Marées as Marc
- 2013 · En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
- 2011 · Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
- 2011 · Atlantika as
- 2009 · Les Williams as
- 2004 · Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
- Future · Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
- 1994 · The Chess Game as Max
- Future · Erratic Blocks as Lucien Le Saint
- 2009 · Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
- 2003 · Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1982 · Paris Ficelle as Joe
- Future · Waster as Waster
- Future · Makunaíma XXI as
- 1993 · De force avec d'autres as Denis
- Future · Que demande le peuple as
- Future · La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
- 2009 · Hymn to Merde as Merde
- 1998 · Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
- 1983 · After Midnight as (voice)
- 1982 · Les Misérables as Montparnasse
- 1982 · L'Ombre sur la plage as




