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.

Credits

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Erratics
as Lucien Le Saint
2026
Inquisitions
as L'inquisiteur
2026
The Inquisition
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2026
In All My Journeys I Am Returning
2026
The End
as (voice)
2026
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
2026
In the Land of Arto
as Rob
2025
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
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
Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
as Self
2024
Fracas
2024
Fracas
Writer
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
The Escapade
as Jacques
2019
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
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
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
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
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
Ogaden
2014
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
2013
Je sens plus la vitesse
2013