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Denis Lavant is a French 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 roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail, and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely.
Born
Saturday, 17 June 1961
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Hood Witch | Jules | 2024 |
| Der Junge dem die Welt gehört | Kasimir | 2024 |
| Poisson rouge | Père de Guillaume / Le père de Guillaume | 2023 |
| Human Flowers of Flesh | Galoup | 2023 |
| Idem | The Rosebud | 2023 |
| Sentinelle sud | Commandant De Royer | 2021 |
| Tralala | Climby | 2021 |
| Silver Skates | Fourier | 2020 |
| Night of the Kings | Silence | 2020 |
| Gagarine | Gérard | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Hood Witch | Jules | 2024 |
| Der Junge dem die Welt gehört | Kasimir | 2024 |
| Poisson rouge | Père de Guillaume / Le père de Guillaume | 2023 |
| Human Flowers of Flesh | Galoup | 2023 |
| Idem | The Rosebud | 2023 |
| Sentinelle sud | Commandant De Royer | 2021 |
| Tralala | Climby | 2021 |
| Silver Skates | Fourier | 2020 |
| Night of the Kings | Silence | 2020 |
| Gagarine | Gérard | 2020 |
| The Blue Star | Le Narrateur | 2020 |
| Vous êtes jeunes vous êtes beaux | Monsieur Loyal | 2019 |
| Girls with Balls | Barman | 2019 |
| The Mountain | Jack | 2019 |
| The Traveller | Alberto | 2019 |
| Silent Streams | 2019 | |
| The Bra | Kamal / Apprentice (Kamal) | 2019 |
| The Emperor of Paris | Maillard | 2018 |
| One Nation, One King | Marat | 2018 |
| Fan Club | Damien | 2018 |
| Cornelius, the Howling Miller | Doctor de Chomo | 2018 |
| 3 Days in Quiberon | Fisherman Poet | 2018 |
| The Night Eats the World | Alfred | 2018 |
| Les scènes fortuites | Allen / Himself | 2018 |
| Lénine-Gorki, la révolution à contretemps | Maxim Gorky | 2017 |
| Gray House | Self | 2017 |
| Midnight Sun | Pierre Carnot | 2016 |
| History's Future | Lottery Ticket Seller | 2016 |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 2016 |
| Boris Without Béatrice | M. Lewis / L'Inconnu | 2016 |
| 21 Nights with Pattie | André | 2015 |
| Eva Doesn't Sleep | Koenig | 2015 |
| Me and Kaminski | Karl-Ludwig | 2015 |
| Graziella | Antoine | 2015 |
| Journey to the West | Dragon | 2014 |
| Pitchipoï | Pierre Schulmann | 2015 |
| Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts | Self | 2014 |
| Iron Ivan | Poddubny's Coach | 2014 |
| Mr. X, a Vision of Leos Carax | Himself / Self | 2014 |
| Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas | The Theologist | 2013 |
| Biette | Self | 2013 |
| Marussia | Clochard | 2013 |
| Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus | Marcel Dassault | 2013 |
| L'étoile du jour | Elliot | 2012 |
| Holy Motors | Le Tué / Mr. Oscar / Le Banquier / La Mendiante / L'O.S de la Motion Capture / M. Merde / Le Père / L'Accordéoniste / Le Tueur / Le Mourant / L'Homme au Foyer / M. Oscar / L'OS de Motion-Capture | 2012 |
| L'oeil de l'astronome | Jean Kepler / Kepler - Jean | 2012 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Hop-o'-My-Thumb | L'ogre / The ogre | 2012 |
| My Little Princess | Ernst | 2011 |
| Hitler in Hollywood | Denis Lavant | 2011 |
| Let It Be | Sapiente | 2010 |
| Obsessions | Marc Douelec | 2009 |
| The Temptation of St. Tony | Count Dionysos Korzybski | 2009 |
| Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie | André Custe | 2009 |
| Tokyo! | Merde' (segment "Merde") | 2008 |
| Captain Ahab | Capitaine Achab / Achab adulte | 2008 |
| Mister Lonely | Charlie Chaplin | 2008 |
| Comment Albert vit bouger les montagnes | 2008 | |
| Happy New Year London | Gerard | 2007 |
| Wild Camp | Blaise | 2006 |
| Infrarouge | Récitant / Narrator | 2006 |
| The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer | Self | 2005 |
| Language Does Not Lie | (voice) / Narrator (voice) | 2004 |
| Le soldat inconnu vivant | (voice) | 2004 |
| A Very Long Engagement | Six-Soux | 2004 |
| Luminal | Ryu | 2004 |
| La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (voice) | 2002 |
| Sous-commandant Père Noël | 2002 | |
| Married/Unmarried | Love | 2001 |
| The Squale | Le joker | 2000 |
| Deep in the Woods | Stéphane / Stephane | 2000 |
| Beau Travail | Galoup | 2000 |
| Tuvalu | Anton | 1999 |
| Melody for a Hustler | L'auto-stoppeur | 1998 |
| Le monde à l'envers | Yann Kérébel / Yann Kerebel | 1998 |
| Don Juan | Pierrot | 1998 |
| Wild Animals | Emil | 1997 |
| Visiblement je vous aime | Denis | 1995 |
| The Chess Game | Max | 1994 |
| De force avec d'autres | Denis | 1993 |
| The Lovers on the Bridge | Alex | 1991 |
| Mona and I | Pierre | 1990 |
| Once Around the Park | Berville | 1989 |
| Bad Blood | Alex / Alex dit "Langue pendue" | 1986 |
| Partir, revenir | Le patient de Simon Lerner | 1985 |
| Boy Meets Girl | Alex | 1984 |
| Long Live Life | Caviar delivery man | 1984 |
| The Wounded Man | Wanderer | 1983 |
| Entre Nous | Un militaire | 1983 |
| Les Misérables | Montparnasse | 1982 |
| L'ombre sur la plage | Mathieu | 1982 |
| Pause-café | Rico, le deuxième voyou | 1981 |
| Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | P'tit Louis | 1967 |
