Denis Lavant
Acting • Born 1961-06-17
Biography
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
140 credits
Fan Club
Movie • 2018
Damien
Miserable Miracle
Movie • 2023
Narrator (French)
Austerlitz
Movie • 2015
Jacques Austerlitz
The Lovers on the Bridge
Movie • 1991
Alex
A Very Long Engagement
Movie • 2004
Six-Soux
Language Does Not Lie
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Les Misérables
Movie • 1982
Montparnasse
The Lonely
Movie • 2009
Deep in the Woods
Movie • 2000
Stephane
Tuvalu
Movie • 1999
Anton
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Movie • 2018
Scaramouche
Tokyo!
Movie • 2008
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Wild Animals
Movie • 1997
Emil
South Sentinel
Movie • 2022
Commandant de Royer
Atlantika
Movie • 2011
Wild Camp
Movie • 2005
Blaise
Beau Travail
Movie • 2000
Galoup
La Squale
Movie • 2000
Le joker
Mister Lonely
Movie • 2008
Charlie Chaplin
Boy Meets Girl
Movie • 1984
Alex
De force avec d'autres
Movie • 1993
Denis
After Midnight
Movie • 1983
(voice)
Captain Ahab
Movie • 2008
Capitaine Achab
Mauvais Sang
Movie • 1986
Alex
The Temptation of St. Tony
Movie • 2009
Count Korzybski
Ogaden
Movie • 2014
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Movie • 2023
Self
It's Not Me
Movie • 2024
Monsieur Merde
My Little Princess
Movie • 2011
Ernst
All Effort of Men
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Entre Nous
Movie • 1983
Un militaire
Holy Motors
Movie • 2012
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Movie • 2011
The ogre
Mona and I
Movie • 1990
Pierre
Long Live Life
Movie • 1984
Caviar delivery man
Morning Star
Movie • 2012
Elliot
Eye of the Astronomer
Movie • 2012
Jean Kepler
Melody for a Hustler
Movie • 1998
L'auto-stoppeur
X14
Movie • 2022
Marussia
Movie • 2013
Clochard
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Movie • 2013
The Theologist
Biette
Movie • 2013
Self
Luminal
Movie • 2004
Ryu
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Movie • 2013
Marcel Dassault
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Movie • 2003
Self - Narrator (voice)
Once Around the Park
Movie • 1989
Berville
Don Juan
Movie • 1998
Pierrot
Journey to the West
Movie • 2014
Dragon
Body of Crime
Movie • 2023
Married/Unmarried
Movie • 2001
Love
The Boy Who Owns the World
Movie • 2024
Kasimir
Hyacinthe
Movie • 2025
Reda
Me and Kaminski
Movie • 2015
Karl-Ludwig
Que demande le peuple
Movie
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Movie
Narrateur
Les Williams
Movie • 2009
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
Movie • 2003
reader
Thunder Voice
Movie • 2023
Prophet
Visiblement je vous aime
Movie • 1995
Denis
Les Grandes Marées
Movie • 2013
Marc
Mr. X
Movie • 2014
Self
Pitchipoï
Movie • 2015
Pierre Schulmann
Le discours
Movie • 2022
Le politicien
Redoubt
Movie • 2026
Karl-Göran Persson
Dark Forests
Movie • 2015
Voice
The Chess Game
Movie • 1994
Max
Aymeline
Movie • 2022
Franco Fontane
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Movie • 2015
Koenig
21 Nights with Pattie
Movie • 2015
André
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Movie • 2002
(voice)
Hood Witch
Movie • 2023
Jules
Poisson rouge
Movie • 2023
Père de Guillaume
The Green Eyes
Movie • 2023
Graziella
Movie • 2015
Antoine
Jiminy
Movie • 2013
Otto Hoffmann
History's Future
Movie • 2016
Lottery Ticket Seller
Boris Without Beatrice
Movie • 2016
L'Inconnu
In the Land of Arto
Movie • 2025
Rob
Paris Ficelle
Movie • 1982
Joe
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Movie • 2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Girls with Balls
Movie • 2019
Barman
Gray House
Movie • 2017
Self
The Night Eats the World
Movie • 2018
Alfred
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Movie • 2013
Self
One Nation, One King
Movie • 2018
Marat
The Escapade
Movie • 2019
Jacques
Going and Coming Back
Movie • 1985
Simon Lerner's patient
The Wounded Man
Movie • 1983
Wanderer
3 Days in Quiberon
Movie • 2018
Fisherman Poet
The Bra
Movie • 2019
Kamal
My Intelligent Comedy
Movie • 2018
Allen
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Movie • 2018
Doctor de Chomo
The Mountain
Movie • 2019
Jack
Kazarken: As We Dig
Movie • 2016
Chiron, le centaure
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Movie • 2019
Monsieur Loyal
The Emperor of Paris
Movie • 2018
Maillard
Silent Streams
Movie • 2019
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Movie • 2010
Bezon
Silver Skates
Movie • 2020
Fourier
The Iron Ivan
Movie • 2014
Poddubny's Coach
Le mystère des jonquilles
Movie • 2014
Sam
Who the Fuck Are You
Movie • 2019
Psychiatrist
Figurant
Movie • 2019
The Blue Star
Movie • 2020
Le Narrateur
Gagarine
Movie • 2020
Gérard
Şoför
Movie • 2001
The Driver
Tired of Being Handsome
Movie • 2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Movie • 2013
Self
Human Flowers of Flesh
Movie • 2023
Galoup
Night of the Kings
Movie • 2021
Silence
Le monde à l'envers
Movie • 1998
Yann Kerebel
The Nipple Whisperer
Movie • 2021
Maurice Sanders
Happy New Year London
Movie • 2007
Gerrard Ames
Tralala
Movie • 2021
Climby
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
Movie • 2009
(voice)
Hymn to Merde
Movie • 2009
Merde
In the Name of Blood
Movie • 2025
Jacques
Dante's Divine Comedy
Movie
Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Two Night Owls in Paris
Movie • 2024
Le bouquiniste
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Movie • 2023
Fracas
Movie • 2024
Erratic Blocks
Movie
Lucien Le Saint
Demons to Diamonds
Movie • 2025
The prisoner
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Movie • 2005
Self
The Stranger
Movie • 2025
Salamano
Makunaíma XXI
Movie
Sibyl
Movie • 2025
(Archive footage)
Bacon-Freud, face à face
Movie • 2025
Voix-off
Hotel Fantasma
Movie • 2025
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Movie • 2014
Self (uncredited)
Tell Me Iggy
Movie • 2022
Self
Waster
Movie
Waster
The End
Movie
(voice)
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
Movie • 2025
L'Ombre sur la plage
Movie • 1982
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV • 2009
André Custe
Midnight Sun
TV • 2016
Pierre Carnot
Square
TV • 2012
Self
The Traveller
TV • 2019
Alberto
La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo
TV