
Denis Lavant
Known for: Acting
Born: June 17, 1961
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

Miserable Miracle
2023

Austerlitz
2015

Language Does Not Lie
2004

Tuvalu
1999

Atlantika
2011

Wild Camp
2005

Beau Travail
2000

Boy Meets Girl
1984

Captain Ahab
2008
Ogaden
2014

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2023

All Effort of Men
2022

Holy Motors
2012

Hop-o'-My-Thumb
2011

Mona and I
1990

Morning Star
2012

Eye of the Astronomer
2012

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013

Hyacinthe
2025
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture

Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2003

Thunder Voice
2023

Visiblement je vous aime
1995

Les Grandes Marées
2013

Le discours
2022

Redoubt
2026

Dark Forests
2015
Jiminy
2013

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016

Who the Fuck Are You
2019

Figurant
2019

The Blue Star
2020

Şoför
2001

Tired of Being Handsome
2013

DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013

Le monde à l'envers
1998

The Nipple Whisperer
2021

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009

Hymn to Merde
2009

In the Name of Blood
2025
Dante's Divine Comedy

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023

Fracas
2024
Erratic Blocks

Sibyl
2025

Bacon-Freud, face à face
2025

Waster
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025

Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
2024

The Lovers on the Bridge
1991

Deep in the Woods
2000

Scaramouche Scaramouche
2018

Mauvais Sang
1986

It's Not Me
2024

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
2003

Journey to the West
2014

The Boy Who Owns the World
2024
Les Williams
2009

Aymeline
2022

Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015

Graziella
2015
History's Future
2016

Paris Ficelle
1982

Gray House
2017

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013

The Bra
2019

Kazarken: As We Dig
2016

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023

Demons to Diamonds
2025

Mister Lonely
2008
De force avec d'autres
1993

X14
2022

Luminal
2004

Mr. X
2014

The Chess Game
1994

Hood Witch
2023

The Green Eyes
2023

Boris Without Beatrice
2016

The Night Eats the World
2018

Two Night Owls in Paris
2024

L'Ombre sur la plage
1982

South Sentinel
2022

My Little Princess
2011

Biette
2013

Body of Crime
2023

Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2018

The Mountain
2019

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014

Happy New Year London
2007

The Stranger
2025
Makunaíma XXI

Hotel Fantasma
2025
The Lonely
2009

La Squale
2000

The Temptation of St. Tony
2009

Marussia
2013

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013

Married/Unmarried
2001

Me and Kaminski
2015
Que demande le peuple

21 Nights with Pattie
2015

Poisson rouge
2023
The Escapade
2019

3 Days in Quiberon
2018

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
2019

The Emperor of Paris
2018

The End
2026
Fan Club
2018

Wild Animals
1997

Once Around the Park
1989

Don Juan
1998

Gagarine
2020

Night of the Kings
2021

Tralala
2021

Tokyo!
2008

In the Land of Arto
2025

The Iron Ivan
2014
Halmeoni
2028

Pitchipoï
2015

One Nation, One King
2018

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010

After Midnight
1983

Girls with Balls
2019

Melody for a Hustler
1998

Going and Coming Back
1985

Tell Me Iggy
2022

A Very Long Engagement
2004

Silent Streams
2019

Silver Skates
2020

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002

Hitler in Hollywood
2011

Long Live Life
1984

The Wounded Man
1983

My Intelligent Comedy
2018

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014

Les Misérables
1982

Entre Nous
1983

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
2009

Midnight Sun
2016

Square
2012

The Traveller
2019

The Countess of Monte Cristo