Denis Lavant
Department: Acting
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
Fan Club
2018
Miserable Miracle
2023
Austerlitz
2015
The Lovers on the Bridge
1991
A Very Long Engagement
2004
Language Does Not Lie
2004
Les Misérables
1982
The Lonely
2009
Deep in the Woods
2000
Tuvalu
1999
Scaramouche Scaramouche
2018
Tokyo!
2008
Wild Animals
1997
South Sentinel
2022
Atlantika
2011
Wild Camp
2005
Beau Travail
2000
La Squale
2000
Mister Lonely
2008
Boy Meets Girl
1984
De force avec d'autres
1993
After Midnight
1983
Captain Ahab
2008
Mauvais Sang
1986
The Temptation of St. Tony
2009
Ogaden
2014
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2023
It's Not Me
2024
My Little Princess
2011
All Effort of Men
2022
Entre Nous
1983
Holy Motors
2012
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
2011
Mona and I
1990
Long Live Life
1984
Morning Star
2012
Eye of the Astronomer
2012
Melody for a Hustler
1998
X14
2022
Marussia
2013
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013
Biette
2013
Luminal
2004
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
2003
Once Around the Park
1989
Don Juan
1998
Journey to the West
2014
Body of Crime
2023
Married/Unmarried
2001
The Boy Who Owns the World
2024
Hyacinthe
2025
Me and Kaminski
2015
Que demande le peuple
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La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
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Les Williams
2009
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2003
Thunder Voice
2023
Visiblement je vous aime
1995
Les Grandes Marées
2013
Mr. X
2014
Pitchipoï
2015
Le discours
2022
Redoubt
2026
Dark Forests
2015
The Chess Game
1994
Aymeline
2022
Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015
21 Nights with Pattie
2015
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002
Hood Witch
2023
Poisson rouge
2023
The Green Eyes
2023
Graziella
2015
Jiminy
2013
History's Future
2016
Boris Without Beatrice
2016
In the Land of Arto
2025
Paris Ficelle
1982
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
Girls with Balls
2019
Gray House
2017
The Night Eats the World
2018
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013
One Nation, One King
2018
The Escapade
2019
Going and Coming Back
1985
The Wounded Man
1983
3 Days in Quiberon
2018
The Bra
2019
My Intelligent Comedy
2018
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2018
The Mountain
2019
Kazarken: As We Dig
2016
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
2019
The Emperor of Paris
2018
Silent Streams
2019
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010
Silver Skates
2020
The Iron Ivan
2014
Le mystère des jonquilles
2014
Who the Fuck Are You
2019
Figurant
2019
The Blue Star
2020
Gagarine
2020
Şoför
2001
Tired of Being Handsome
2013
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013
Human Flowers of Flesh
2023
Night of the Kings
2021
Le monde à l'envers
1998
The Nipple Whisperer
2021
Happy New Year London
2007
Tralala
2021
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009
Hymn to Merde
2009
In the Name of Blood
2025
Dante's Divine Comedy
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Two Night Owls in Paris
2024
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023
Fracas
2024
Erratic Blocks
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Demons to Diamonds
2025
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005
The Stranger
2025
Makunaíma XXI
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Sibyl
2025
Bacon-Freud, face à face
2025
Hotel Fantasma
2025
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014
Tell Me Iggy
2022
Waster
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The End
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L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025
L'Ombre sur la plage
1982
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009
Midnight Sun
2016
Square
2012
The Traveller
2019
La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo
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