Denis Lavant

Denis Lavant

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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Filmography

2025

Hyacinthe
Hyacinthe
as Reda
Movie - Released: 4/2/2025
Movie
Le Pays d’Arto
Movie - Released: 7/9/2025
In the Name of Blood
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
Movie - Released: 1/22/2025
DEMONS TO DIAMONDS
DEMONS TO DIAMONDS
Movie - Released: 2/15/2025

2024

It's Not Me
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
Movie - Released: 6/12/2024
The Boy Who Owns the World
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
Movie - Released: 3/14/2024
Hood Witch
Hood Witch
as Jules
Movie - Released: 5/15/2024
Two Night Owls in Paris
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
Movie - Released: 9/20/2024
Fracas
Fracas
Movie - Released: 11/1/2024

2023

Miserable Miracle
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
Movie - Released: 9/17/2023
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
Movie - Released: 5/9/2023
Body of Crime
Body of Crime
Movie - Released: 11/19/2023
Thunder Voice
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
Movie - Released: 12/6/2023
Poisson rouge
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
Movie - Released: 9/27/2023
The Green Eyes
The Green Eyes
Movie - Released: 9/1/2023
Human Flowers of Flesh
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
Movie - Released: 2/2/2023
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Movie - Released: 12/8/2023

2022

South Sentinel
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
Movie - Released: 4/13/2022
All Effort of Men
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
Movie - Released: 12/31/2022
X14
X14
Movie - Released: 7/7/2022
Aymeline
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
Movie - Released: 8/31/2022

2021

Le discours
Le discours
as Le politicien
Movie - Released: 1/1/2021
Night of the Kings
Night of the Kings
as Silence
Movie - Released: 2/26/2021
The Nipple Whisperer
The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders
Movie - Released: 3/16/2021
Tralala
Tralala
as Climby
Movie - Released: 7/16/2021

2020

Silver Skates
Silver Skates
as Fourier
Movie - Released: 12/10/2020
The Blue Star
The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
Movie - Released: 4/17/2020
Gagarine
Gagarine
as Gérard
Movie - Released: 11/11/2020

2019

Girls with Balls
Girls with Balls
as Barman
Movie - Released: 7/26/2019
Movie
The Escapade
as Jacques
Movie - Released: 12/31/2019
The Bra
The Bra
as Kamal
Movie - Released: 9/11/2019
The Mountain
The Mountain
as Jack
Movie - Released: 6/26/2019
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
Movie - Released: 10/2/2019
Silent Streams
Silent Streams
Movie - Released: 4/10/2019
Who the Fuck Are You
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
Movie - Released: 10/28/2019
Figurant
Figurant
Movie - Released: 11/3/2019
The Traveller
The Traveller
as Alberto
TV - Released: 5/28/2019

2018

Movie
Fan Club
as Damien
Movie - Released: 9/19/2018
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
Movie - Released: 10/27/2018
The Night Eats the World
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
Movie - Released: 3/7/2018
One Nation, One King
One Nation, One King
as Marat
Movie - Released: 9/26/2018
3 Days in Quiberon
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
Movie - Released: 4/12/2018
My Intelligent Comedy
My Intelligent Comedy
as Himself
Movie - Released: 1/26/2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
Movie - Released: 5/2/2018
The Emperor of Paris
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
Movie - Released: 12/19/2018

2017

Gray House
Gray House
as Self
Movie - Released: 3/21/2017

2016

Movie
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
Movie - Released: 1/28/2016
Boris Without Beatrice
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
Movie - Released: 3/4/2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Movie - Released: 3/9/2016
Kazarken: As We Dig
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
Movie - Released: 11/23/2016
Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun
as Pierre Carnot
TV - Released: 10/23/2016

2015

Austerlitz
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
Movie - Released: 5/6/2015
Me and Kaminski
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
Movie - Released: 9/17/2015
Pitchipoï
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
Movie - Released: 2/4/2015
Dark Forests
Dark Forests
as Voice
Movie - Released: 3/20/2015
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
Movie - Released: 11/5/2015
21 Nights with Pattie
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
Movie - Released: 11/25/2015
Graziella
Graziella
as Antoine
Movie - Released: 6/3/2015

2014

Movie
Ogaden
Movie - Released: 1/1/2014
Journey to the West
Journey to the West
as Dragon
Movie - Released: 4/24/2014
Mr. X
Mr. X
as Self
Movie - Released: 1/20/2014
The Iron Ivan
The Iron Ivan
Movie - Released: 7/10/2014
Le mystère des jonquilles
Le mystère des jonquilles
as Sam
Movie - Released: 7/18/2014

2013

Marussia
Marussia
as Clochard
Movie - Released: 2/9/2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
Movie - Released: 8/14/2013
Biette
Biette
as Self
Movie - Released: 6/26/2013
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
Movie - Released: 1/22/2013
Les Grandes Marées
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
Movie - Released: 6/20/2013
Movie
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
Movie - Released: 11/19/2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as Self
Movie - Released: 6/13/2013
Tired of Being Handsome
Tired of Being Handsome
Movie - Released: 2/2/2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
Movie - Released: 1/21/2013

2012

Holy Motors
Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Movie - Released: 7/2/2012
Morning Star
Morning Star
as Elliot
Movie - Released: 11/28/2012
Eye of the Astronomer
Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler
Movie - Released: 2/21/2012
Square
Square
as Self
TV - Released: 1/8/2012

2011

Atlantika
Atlantika
Movie - Released: 1/1/2011
My Little Princess
My Little Princess
as Ernst
Movie - Released: 6/29/2011
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre
Movie - Released: 9/2/2011

2010

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
as Bezon
Movie - Released: 2/3/2010

2009

Movie
The Lonely
Movie - Released: 4/16/2009
The Temptation of St. Tony
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
Movie - Released: 10/10/2009
Movie
Les Williams
Movie - Released: 3/29/2009
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
Movie - Released: 3/6/2009
Hymn to Merde
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
Movie - Released: 8/12/2009
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as André Custe
TV - Released: 1/9/2009

2008

Tokyo!
Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")
Movie - Released: 8/16/2008
Mister Lonely
Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin
Movie - Released: 2/2/2008
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab
as Capitaine Achab
Movie - Released: 2/13/2008

2007

Happy New Year London
Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames
Movie - Released: 12/28/2007

2005

Wild Camp
Wild Camp
as Blaise
Movie - Released: 10/13/2005

2004

A Very Long Engagement
A Very Long Engagement
as Six-Soux
Movie - Released: 10/27/2004
Language Does Not Lie
Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)
Movie - Released: 11/15/2004
Luminal
Luminal
as Ryu
Movie - Released: 5/9/2004

2003

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie - Released: 7/1/2003

2002

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (voice)
Movie - Released: 4/3/2002

2001

Married/Unmarried
Married/Unmarried
as Love
Movie - Released: 2/7/2001
Şoför
Şoför
Movie - Released: 1/1/2001

2000

Deep in the Woods
Deep in the Woods
as Stephane
Movie - Released: 6/13/2000
Beau Travail
Beau Travail
as Galoup
Movie - Released: 5/3/2000
La Squale
La Squale
as Le joker
Movie - Released: 11/29/2000

1999

Tuvalu
Tuvalu
as Anton
Movie - Released: 11/19/1999

1998

Melody for a Hustler
Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur
Movie - Released: 10/14/1998
Don Juan
Don Juan
as Pierrot
Movie - Released: 4/28/1998
Le monde à l'envers
Le monde à l'envers
as Yann Kerebel
Movie - Released: 8/14/1998

1997

Wild Animals
Wild Animals
as Emil
Movie - Released: 10/25/1997

1995

Visiblement je vous aime
Visiblement je vous aime
as Denis
Movie - Released: 7/15/1995

1994

The Chess Game
The Chess Game
as Max
Movie - Released: 11/19/1994

1993

Movie
De force avec d'autres
as Denis
Movie - Released: 4/24/1993

1991

The Lovers on the Bridge
The Lovers on the Bridge
as Alex
Movie - Released: 10/16/1991

1990

Mona and I
Mona and I
as Pierre
Movie - Released: 4/4/1990

1989

Once Around the Park
Once Around the Park
as Berville
Movie - Released: 3/28/1989

1986

Mauvais Sang
Mauvais Sang
as Alex
Movie - Released: 11/26/1986

1985

Going and Coming Back
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner's patient
Movie - Released: 3/27/1985

1984

Boy Meets Girl
Boy Meets Girl
as Alex
Movie - Released: 11/21/1984
After Midnight
After Midnight
Movie - Released: 2/20/1984
Long Live Life
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
Movie - Released: 4/18/1984

1983

Entre Nous
Entre Nous
as Un militaire
Movie - Released: 4/6/1983
The Wounded Man
The Wounded Man
as Wanderer
Movie - Released: 5/25/1983

1982

Les Misérables
Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
Movie - Released: 10/20/1982
Paris Ficelle
Paris Ficelle
as Joe
Movie - Released: 1/1/1982

Unknown

Movie
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
Movie
Movie
Dante's Divine Comedy
as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Movie
Movie
Erratic Blocks
as Lucien Le Saint
Movie