Denis Lavant

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

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

The Traveller

Square

The Stranger

Holy Motors

Midnight Sun

The Night Eats the World

Tokyo!

All Movies (138)

• Halmeoni2028 · as Dominique Brisebard
• The End2026 · as (voice)
• Redoubt2026 · as Karl-Göran Persson
• In the Land of Arto2025 · as Rob
• L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST2025
• The Stranger2025 · as Salamano
• Sibyl2025 · as (Archive footage)
• Hyacinthe2025 · as Reda
• Bacon-Freud, face à face2025 · as Voix-off
• Demons to Diamonds2025 · as The prisoner
• Hotel Fantasma2025
• In the Name of Blood2025 · as Jacques
• Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino2024 · as Self
• Fracas2024
• Two Night Owls in Paris2024 · as Le bouquiniste
• It's Not Me2024 · as Monsieur Merde
• The Boy Who Owns the World2024 · as Kasimir
• Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui2023
• Thunder Voice2023 · as Prophet
• Body of Crime2023
• Hood Witch2023 · as Jules
• Poisson rouge2023 · as Père de Guillaume
• Miserable Miracle2023 · as Narrator (French)
• The Green Eyes2023
• L'Impossible Monsieur Simon2023 · as Self
• Human Flowers of Flesh2023 · as Galoup
• All Effort of Men2022 · as Narrator (voice)
• Aymeline2022 · as Franco Fontane
• X142022
• Tell Me Iggy2022 · as Self
• Le discours2022 · as Le politicien
• South Sentinel2022 · as Commandant de Royer
• Tralala2021 · as Climby
• The Nipple Whisperer2021 · as Maurice Sanders
• Night of the Kings2021 · as Silence
• Silver Skates2020 · as Fourier
• Gagarine2020 · as Gérard
• The Blue Star2020 · as Le Narrateur
• The Escapade2019 · as Jacques
• Figurant2019
• Who the Fuck Are You2019 · as Psychiatrist
• Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux2019 · as Monsieur Loyal
• Girls with Balls2019 · as Barman
• The Mountain2019 · as Jack
• Silent Streams2019
• The Bra2019 · as Kamal
• The Emperor of Paris2018 · as Maillard
• Scaramouche Scaramouche2018 · as Scaramouche
• One Nation, One King2018 · as Marat
• Fan Club2018 · as Damien
• Cornelius, the Howling Miller2018 · as Doctor de Chomo
• 3 Days in Quiberon2018 · as Fisherman Poet
• The Night Eats the World2018 · as Alfred
• My Intelligent Comedy2018 · as Allen
• Gray House2017 · as Self
• Kazarken: As We Dig2016 · as Chiron, le centaure
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline2016 · as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Boris Without Beatrice2016 · as L'Inconnu
• History's Future2016 · as Lottery Ticket Seller
• 21 Nights with Pattie2015 · as André
• Eva Doesn't Sleep2015 · as Koenig
• Me and Kaminski2015 · as Karl-Ludwig
• Graziella2015 · as Antoine
• Austerlitz2015 · as Jacques Austerlitz
• Dark Forests2015 · as Voice
• Pitchipoï2015 · as Pierre Schulmann
• Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts2014 · as Self (uncredited)
• Le mystère des jonquilles2014 · as Sam
• The Iron Ivan2014 · as Eugene de Paris
• Journey to the West2014 · as Dragon
• Mr. X2014 · as Self
• Ogaden2014
• Jiminy2013 · as Otto Hoffmann
• Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas2013 · as The Theologist
• Biette2013 · as Self
• Les Grandes Marées2013 · as Marc
• En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel2013 · as Self
• Marussia2013 · as Clochard
• Tired of Being Handsome2013
• Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus2013 · as Marcel Dassault
• DRIVE IN Holy Motors2013 · as Self
• Morning Star2012 · as Elliot
• Holy Motors2012 · as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
• Eye of the Astronomer2012 · as Jean Kepler
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb2011 · as The ogre
• My Little Princess2011 · as Ernst
• Hitler in Hollywood2011 · as Denis Lavant
• Atlantika2011
• Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète2010 · as Bezon
• The Temptation of St. Tony2009 · as Count Korzybski
• Hymn to Merde2009 · as Merde
• The Lonely2009
• Les Williams2009
• Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir2009 · as (voice)
• Tokyo!2008 · as Merde' (segment "Merde")
• Captain Ahab2008 · as Capitaine Achab
• Mister Lonely2008 · as Charlie Chaplin
• Happy New Year London2007 · as Gerrard Ames
• Wild Camp2005 · as Blaise
• Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"2005 · as Self
• Language Does Not Lie2004 · as Narrator (voice)
• A Very Long Engagement2004 · as Six-Soux
• Luminal2004 · as Ryu
• Correspondances: Dostoïevski2003 · as reader
• Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait2003 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan2002 · as (voice)
• Married/Unmarried2001 · as Love
• Şoför2001 · as The Driver
• La Squale2000 · as Le joker
• Deep in the Woods2000 · as Stephane
• Beau Travail2000 · as Galoup
• Tuvalu1999 · as Anton
• Melody for a Hustler1998 · as L'auto-stoppeur
• Le monde à l'envers1998 · as Yann Kerebel
• Don Juan1998 · as Pierrot
• Wild Animals1997 · as Emil
• Visiblement je vous aime1995 · as Denis
• The Chess Game1994 · as Max
• De force avec d'autres1993 · as Denis
• The Lovers on the Bridge1991 · as Alex
• Mona and I1990 · as Pierre
• Once Around the Park1989 · as Berville
• Mauvais Sang1986 · as Alex
• Going and Coming Back1985 · as Simon Lerner's patient
• Boy Meets Girl1984 · as Alex
• Long Live Life1984 · as Caviar delivery man
• After Midnight1983 · as (voice)
• The Wounded Man1983 · as Wanderer
• Entre Nous1983 · as Un militaire
• Les Misérables1982 · as Montparnasse
• L'Ombre sur la plage1982
• Paris Ficelle1982 · as Joe
• Que demande le peuple—
• La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture— · as Narrateur
• Dante's Divine Comedy— · as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
• Erratic Blocks— · as Lucien Le Saint
• Makunaíma XXI—
• Waster— · as Waster

All TV Shows (5)

• The Traveller2019 · as Alberto
• Midnight Sun2016 · as Pierre Carnot
• Square2012 · as Self
• The Little Murders of Agatha Christie2009 · as André Custe
• The Countess of Monte Cristo—