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Name
Denis Lavant

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1961-06-17 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2018 Fan Club as Damien
2023 Miserable Miracle as Narrator (French)
2015 Austerlitz as Jacques Austerlitz
1991 The Lovers on the Bridge as Alex
2004 A Very Long Engagement as Six-Soux
2004 Language Does Not Lie as Narrator (voice)
1982 Les Misérables as Montparnasse
2009 The Lonely
2000 Deep in the Woods as Stephane
1999 Tuvalu as Anton
2018 Scaramouche Scaramouche as Scaramouche
2008 Tokyo! as Merde' (segment "Merde")
1997 Wild Animals as Emil
2022 South Sentinel as Commandant de Royer
2011 Atlantika
2005 Wild Camp as Blaise
2000 Beau Travail as Galoup
2000 La Squale as Le joker
2008 Mister Lonely as Charlie Chaplin
1984 Boy Meets Girl as Alex
1993 De force avec d'autres as Denis
1983 After Midnight as (voice)
2008 Captain Ahab as Capitaine Achab
1986 Mauvais Sang as Alex
2009 The Temptation of St. Tony as Count Korzybski
2014 Ogaden
2023 L'Impossible Monsieur Simon as Self
2024 It's Not Me as Monsieur Merde
2011 My Little Princess as Ernst
2022 All Effort of Men as Narrator (voice)
1983 Entre Nous as Un militaire
2012 Holy Motors as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2011 Hop-o'-My-Thumb as The ogre
1990 Mona and I as Pierre
1984 Long Live Life as Caviar delivery man
2012 Morning Star as Elliot
2012 Eye of the Astronomer as Jean Kepler
1998 Melody for a Hustler as L'auto-stoppeur
2022 X14
2013 Marussia as Clochard
2013 Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas as The Theologist
2013 Biette as Self
2004 Luminal as Ryu
2013 Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus as Marcel Dassault
2003 Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait as Self - Narrator (voice)
1989 Once Around the Park as Berville
1998 Don Juan as Pierrot
2014 Journey to the West as Dragon
2023 Body of Crime
2001 Married/Unmarried as Love
2024 The Boy Who Owns the World as Kasimir
2025 Hyacinthe as Reda
2015 Me and Kaminski as Karl-Ludwig
Soon Que demande le peuple
Soon La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture as Narrateur
2009 Les Williams
2003 Correspondances: Dostoïevski as reader
2023 Thunder Voice as Prophet
1995 Visiblement je vous aime as Denis
2013 Les Grandes Marées as Marc
2014 Mr. X as Self
2015 Pitchipoï as Pierre Schulmann
2022 Le discours as Le politicien
2026 Redoubt as Karl-Göran Persson
2015 Dark Forests as Voice
1994 The Chess Game as Max
2022 Aymeline as Franco Fontane
2015 Eva Doesn't Sleep as Koenig
2015 21 Nights with Pattie as André
2002 La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (voice)
2023 Hood Witch as Jules
2023 Poisson rouge as Père de Guillaume
2023 The Green Eyes
2015 Graziella as Antoine
2013 Jiminy as Otto Hoffmann
2016 History's Future as Lottery Ticket Seller
2016 Boris Without Beatrice as L'Inconnu
2025 In the Land of Arto as Rob
1982 Paris Ficelle as Joe
2016 Louis-Ferdinand Céline as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2019 Girls with Balls as Barman
2017 Gray House as Self
2018 The Night Eats the World as Alfred
2013 En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel as Self
2018 One Nation, One King as Marat
2019 The Escapade as Jacques
1985 Going and Coming Back as Simon Lerner's patient
1983 The Wounded Man as Wanderer
2018 3 Days in Quiberon as Fisherman Poet
2019 The Bra as Kamal
2018 My Intelligent Comedy as Allen
2018 Cornelius, the Howling Miller as Doctor de Chomo
2019 The Mountain as Jack
2016 Kazarken: As We Dig as Chiron, le centaure
2019 Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux as Monsieur Loyal
2018 The Emperor of Paris as Maillard
2019 Silent Streams
2010 Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète as Bezon
2020 Silver Skates as Fourier
2014 The Iron Ivan as Eugene de Paris
2014 Le mystère des jonquilles as Sam
2019 Who the Fuck Are You as Psychiatrist
2019 Figurant
2020 The Blue Star as Le Narrateur
2020 Gagarine as Gérard
2001 Şoför as The Driver
2013 Tired of Being Handsome
2013 DRIVE IN Holy Motors as Self
2023 Human Flowers of Flesh as Galoup
2021 Night of the Kings as Silence
1998 Le monde à l'envers as Yann Kerebel
2021 The Nipple Whisperer as Maurice Sanders
2007 Happy New Year London as Gerrard Ames
2021 Tralala as Climby
2009 Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir as (voice)
2009 Hymn to Merde as Merde
2025 In the Name of Blood as Jacques
Soon Dante's Divine Comedy as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
2024 Two Night Owls in Paris as Le bouquiniste
2023 Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2024 Fracas
2026 Erratics as Lucien Le Saint
2025 Demons to Diamonds as The prisoner
2005 Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" as Self
2025 The Stranger as Salamano
Soon Makunaíma XXI
2025 Sibyl as (Archive footage)
2025 Bacon-Freud, face à face as Voix-off
2025 Hotel Fantasma
2014 Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts as Self (uncredited)
2022 Tell Me Iggy as Self
Soon Waster as Waster
2026 The End as (voice)
2025 L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
1982 L'Ombre sur la plage
2024 Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino as Self
2011 Hitler in Hollywood as Denis Lavant
2026 In All My Journeys I Am Returning
Soon 7 jours 4000 ans as (Voix)
Soon The Rope
2026 Inquisitions as L'inquisiteur
Soon Fol
2013 Je sens plus la vitesse
2026 The Man Without Qualities as Ultimo Proy

2009 The Little Murders of Agatha Christie ( 1 episode ) as André Custe
2016 Midnight Sun ( 8 episodes ) as Pierre Carnot
2012 Square ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 The Traveller ( 1 episode ) as Alberto
Soon The Countess of Monte Cristo ( 1 episode )
2026 The Inquisition ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)

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