Denis Lavant
Acting1961Neuilly-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
Acting History
Future
Erratic Blocks
as Lucien Le Saint
Dante's Divine Comedy
as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
Transit
as (voice)
Waster
as Waster
2026
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face
as Voix-off
The Stranger
as Salamano
Demons to Diamonds
as The prisoner
In the Land of Arto
as Rob
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
Hyacinthe
as Reda
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
2024
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
Fracas
Writer
2023
Hood Witch
as Jules
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
2022
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
Tell Me Iggy
as Self
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
Le discours
as Le politicien
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
2021
2020
2019
The Bra
as Kamal
The Escapade
as Jacques
The Mountain
as Jack
Girls with Balls
as Barman
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
The Traveller
TVas Alberto
2018
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
One Nation, One King
as Marat
My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
Fan Club
as Damien
2017
Gray House
as Self
2016
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
Midnight Sun
TVas Pierre Carnot
2015
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
Graziella
as Antoine
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
Dark Forests
as Voice
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
2014
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
as Self (uncredited)
The Iron Ivan
as Poddubny's Coach
Journey to the West
as Dragon
Mr. X
as Self
2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
Biette
as Self
Marussia
as Clochard
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
2012
Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler
Morning Star
as Elliot
Square
TVas Self• 1 eps
2011
2010
2009
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TVas André Custe• 1 eps
2008
2007
Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames
2004
2003
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader
2002
2001
Married/Unmarried
as Love
Şoför
as The Driver
2000
1999
Tuvalu
as Anton
1998
1997
Wild Animals
as Emil
1995
Visiblement je vous aime
as Denis
1994
The Chess Game
as Max
1993
De force avec d'autres
as Denis
1991
The Lovers on the Bridge
as Alex
1990
Mona and I
as Pierre
1989
Once Around the Park
as Berville
1986
Mauvais Sang
as Alex
1985
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner's patient
1984
Boy Meets Girl
as Alex
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
1983
1982