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




