Birthday: Jun 17, 1961
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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.

Filmography

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

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