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.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1187498
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Filmography (Movies)
In the Land of Arto
Character:Rob
Release Date:31/12/2025
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
Character:
Release Date:09/12/2025
The Stranger
Character:Salamano
Release Date:29/10/2025
Redoubt
Character:Karl-Göran Persson
Release Date:20/09/2025
Sibyl
Character:(Archive footage)
Release Date:19/05/2025
Hyacinthe
Character:Reda
Release Date:02/04/2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face
Character:Voix-off
Release Date:28/03/2025
Demons to Diamonds
Character:The prisoner
Release Date:15/02/2025
Hotel Fantasma
Character:
Release Date:08/02/2025
In the Name of Blood
Character:Jacques
Release Date:22/01/2025
Fracas
Character:
Release Date:01/11/2024
Two Night Owls in Paris
Character:Le bouquiniste
Release Date:20/09/2024
It's Not Me
Character:Monsieur Merde
Release Date:12/06/2024
The Boy Who Owns the World
Character:Kasimir
Release Date:14/03/2024
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Character:
Release Date:08/12/2023
Thunder Voice
Character:Prophet
Release Date:06/12/2023
Body of Crime
Character:
Release Date:19/11/2023
Hood Witch
Character:Jules
Release Date:10/10/2023
Poisson rouge
Character:Père de Guillaume
Release Date:27/09/2023
Miserable Miracle
Character:Narrator (French)
Release Date:17/09/2023
The Green Eyes
Character:
Release Date:01/09/2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Character:Self
Release Date:09/05/2023
Human Flowers of Flesh
Character:Galoup
Release Date:02/02/2023
All Effort of Men
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:31/12/2022
Aymeline
Character:Franco Fontane
Release Date:31/08/2022
X14
Character:
Release Date:07/07/2022
Tell Me Iggy
Character:Self
Release Date:23/05/2022
South Sentinel
Character:Commandant de Royer
Release Date:13/04/2022
Tralala
Character:Climby
Release Date:16/07/2021
The Nipple Whisperer
Character:Maurice Sanders
Release Date:16/03/2021
Night of the Kings
Character:Silence
Release Date:26/02/2021
Le discours
Character:Le politicien
Release Date:01/01/2021
Silver Skates
Character:Fourier
Release Date:10/12/2020
Gagarine
Character:Gérard
Release Date:11/11/2020
The Blue Star
Character:Le Narrateur
Release Date:17/04/2020
The Escapade
Character:Jacques
Release Date:31/12/2019
Figurant
Character:
Release Date:03/11/2019
Who the Fuck Are You
Character:Psychiatrist
Release Date:28/10/2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Character:Monsieur Loyal
Release Date:02/10/2019
The Bra
Character:Kamal
Release Date:11/09/2019
Girls with Balls
Character:Barman
Release Date:26/07/2019
The Mountain
Character:Jack
Release Date:26/06/2019
Silent Streams
Character:
Release Date:10/04/2019
The Emperor of Paris
Character:Maillard
Release Date:19/12/2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Character:Scaramouche
Release Date:27/10/2018
One Nation, One King
Character:Marat
Release Date:26/09/2018
Fan Club
Character:Damien
Release Date:19/09/2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Character:Doctor de Chomo
Release Date:02/05/2018
3 Days in Quiberon
Character:Fisherman Poet
Release Date:12/04/2018
The Night Eats the World
Character:Alfred
Release Date:07/03/2018
My Intelligent Comedy
Character:Allen
Release Date:26/01/2018
Gray House
Character:Self
Release Date:21/03/2017
Kazarken: As We Dig
Character:Chiron, le centaure
Release Date:23/11/2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Character:Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Release Date:09/03/2016
Boris Without Beatrice
Character:L'Inconnu
Release Date:04/03/2016
History's Future
Character:Lottery Ticket Seller
Release Date:28/01/2016
21 Nights with Pattie
Character:André
Release Date:25/11/2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Character:Koenig
Release Date:05/11/2015
Me and Kaminski
Character:Karl-Ludwig
Release Date:17/09/2015
Graziella
Character:Antoine
Release Date:03/06/2015
Austerlitz
Character:Jacques Austerlitz
Release Date:06/05/2015
Dark Forests
Character:Voice
Release Date:20/03/2015
Pitchipoï
Character:Pierre Schulmann
Release Date:04/02/2015
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:14/08/2014
Le mystère des jonquilles
Character:Sam
Release Date:18/07/2014
The Iron Ivan
Character:Poddubny's Coach
Release Date:10/07/2014
Journey to the West
Character:Dragon
Release Date:24/04/2014
Mr. X
Character:Self
Release Date:20/01/2014
Ogaden
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2014
Jiminy
Character:Otto Hoffmann
Release Date:19/11/2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Character:The Theologist
Release Date:14/08/2013
Biette
Character:Self
Release Date:26/06/2013
Les Grandes Marées
Character:Marc
Release Date:20/06/2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Character:Self
Release Date:13/06/2013
Marussia
Character:Clochard
Release Date:09/02/2013
Tired of Being Handsome
Character:
Release Date:02/02/2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Character:Marcel Dassault
Release Date:22/01/2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Character:Self
Release Date:21/01/2013
Morning Star
Character:Elliot
Release Date:28/11/2012
Holy Motors
Character:Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Release Date:02/07/2012
Eye of the Astronomer
Character:Jean Kepler
Release Date:21/02/2012
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Character:The ogre
Release Date:02/09/2011
My Little Princess
Character:Ernst
Release Date:29/06/2011
Atlantika
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2011
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Character:Bezon
Release Date:03/02/2010
The Temptation of St. Tony
Character:Count Korzybski
Release Date:10/10/2009
Hymn to Merde
Character:Merde
Release Date:12/08/2009
The Lonely
Character:
Release Date:16/04/2009
Les Williams
Character:
Release Date:29/03/2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
Character:(voice)
Release Date:06/03/2009
Tokyo!
Character:Merde' (segment "Merde")
Release Date:16/08/2008
Captain Ahab
Character:Capitaine Achab
Release Date:13/02/2008
Mister Lonely
Character:Charlie Chaplin
Release Date:02/02/2008
Happy New Year London
Character:Gerrard Ames
Release Date:28/12/2007
Wild Camp
Character:Blaise
Release Date:13/10/2005
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Character:Self
Release Date:27/04/2005
Language Does Not Lie
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:15/11/2004
A Very Long Engagement
Character:Six-Soux
Release Date:27/10/2004
Luminal
Character:Ryu
Release Date:09/05/2004
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
Character:reader
Release Date:29/10/2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/07/2003
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Character:(voice)
Release Date:03/04/2002
Married/Unmarried
Character:Love
Release Date:07/02/2001
Şoför
Character:The Driver
Release Date:01/01/2001
La Squale
Character:Le joker
Release Date:29/11/2000
Deep in the Woods
Character:Stephane
Release Date:13/06/2000
Beau Travail
Character:Galoup
Release Date:03/05/2000
Tuvalu
Character:Anton
Release Date:19/11/1999
Melody for a Hustler
Character:L'auto-stoppeur
Release Date:14/10/1998
Le monde à l'envers
Character:Yann Kerebel
Release Date:14/08/1998
Don Juan
Character:Pierrot
Release Date:28/04/1998
Wild Animals
Character:Emil
Release Date:25/10/1997
Visiblement je vous aime
Character:Denis
Release Date:15/07/1995
The Chess Game
Character:Max
Release Date:19/11/1994
De force avec d'autres
Character:Denis
Release Date:24/04/1993
The Lovers on the Bridge
Character:Alex
Release Date:16/10/1991
Mona and I
Character:Pierre
Release Date:04/04/1990
Once Around the Park
Character:Berville
Release Date:28/03/1989
Mauvais Sang
Character:Alex
Release Date:26/11/1986
Going and Coming Back
Character:Simon Lerner's patient
Release Date:27/03/1985
Boy Meets Girl
Character:Alex
Release Date:21/11/1984
Long Live Life
Character:Caviar delivery man
Release Date:18/04/1984
After Midnight
Character:(voice)
Release Date:12/10/1983
The Wounded Man
Character:Wanderer
Release Date:25/05/1983
Entre Nous
Character:Un militaire
Release Date:06/04/1983
Les Misérables
Character:Montparnasse
Release Date:20/10/1982
Paris Ficelle
Character:Joe
Release Date:01/01/1982
Television Appearances
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