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

André Custe

Midnight Sun

Pierre Carnot

Square

Self

The Emperor of Paris

Maillard

A Very Long Engagement

Six-Soux

The Traveller

Alberto

Silver Skates

Fourier

Eva Doesn't Sleep

Koenig

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2026	Le Pays d’Arto
2025	Hyacinthe	Reda
2025	In the Name of Blood	Jacques
2025	DEMONS TO DIAMONDS
2024	It's Not Me	Monsieur Merde
2024	The Boy Who Owns the World	Kasimir
2024	Hood Witch	Jules
2024	Two Night Owls in Paris	Le bouquiniste
2024	Fracas
2023	Miserable Miracle	Narrator (French)
2023	L'Impossible Monsieur Simon	Self
2023	Body of Crime
2023	Thunder Voice	Prophet
2023	Poisson rouge	Père de Guillaume
2023	The Green Eyes
2023	Human Flowers of Flesh	Galoup
2023	Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2022	South Sentinel	Commandant de Royer
2022	All Effort of Men	Narrator (voice)
2022	X14
2022	Aymeline	Franco Fontane
2021	Le discours	Le politicien
2021	Night of the Kings	Silence
2021	The Nipple Whisperer	Maurice Sanders
2021	Tralala	Climby
2020	Silver Skates	Fourier
2020	The Blue Star	Le Narrateur
2020	Gagarine	Gérard
2019	Girls with Balls	Barman
2019	The Escapade	Jacques
2019	The Bra	Kamal
2019	The Mountain	Jack
2019	Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux	Monsieur Loyal
2019	Silent Streams
2019	Who the Fuck Are You	Psychiatrist
2019	Figurant
2018	Fan Club	Damien
2018	Scaramouche Scaramouche	Scaramouche
2018	The Night Eats the World	Alfred
2018	One Nation, One King	Marat
2018	3 Days in Quiberon	Fisherman Poet
2018	My Intelligent Comedy	Allen
2018	Cornelius, the Howling Miller	Doctor de Chomo
2018	The Emperor of Paris	Maillard
2017	Gray House	Self
2016	History's Future	Lottery Ticket Seller
2016	Boris Without Beatrice	L'Inconnu
2016	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016	Kazarken: As We Dig	Chiron, le centaure
2015	Austerlitz	Jacques Austerlitz
2015	Me and Kaminski	Karl-Ludwig
2015	Pitchipoï	Pierre Schulmann
2015	Dark Forests	Voice
2015	Eva Doesn't Sleep	Koenig
2015	21 Nights with Pattie	André
2015	Graziella	Antoine
2014	Ogaden
2014	Journey to the West	Dragon
2014	Mr. X	Self
2014	The Iron Ivan	Poddubny's Coach
2014	Le mystère des jonquilles	Sam
2013	Marussia	Clochard
2013	Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas	The Theologist
2013	Biette	Self
2013	Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus	Marcel Dassault
2013	Les Grandes Marées	Marc
2013	Jiminy	Otto Hoffmann
2013	En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel	Self
2013	Tired of Being Handsome
2013	DRIVE IN Holy Motors	Self
2012	Holy Motors	Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2012	Morning Star	Elliot
2012	Eye of the Astronomer	Jean Kepler
2011	Atlantika
2011	My Little Princess	Ernst
2011	Hop-o'-My-Thumb	The ogre
2010	Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète	Bezon
2009	The Lonely
2009	The Temptation of St. Tony	Count Korzybski
2009	Les Williams
2009	Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir	(voice)
2009	Hymn to Merde	Merde
2008	Tokyo!	Merde' (segment "Merde")
2008	Mister Lonely	Charlie Chaplin
2008	Captain Ahab	Capitaine Achab
2007	Happy New Year London	Gerrard Ames
2005	Wild Camp	Blaise
2005	Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"	Self
2004	A Very Long Engagement	Six-Soux
2004	Language Does Not Lie	Narrator (voice)
2004	Luminal	Ryu
2003	Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait	Self - Narrator (voice)
2003	Correspondances: Dostoïevski	reader
2002	La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan	(voice)
2001	Married/Unmarried	Love
2001	Şoför	The Driver
2000	Deep in the Woods	Stephane
2000	Beau Travail	Galoup
2000	La Squale	Le joker
1999	Tuvalu	Anton
1998	Melody for a Hustler	L'auto-stoppeur
1998	Don Juan	Pierrot
1998	Le monde à l'envers	Yann Kerebel
1997	Wild Animals	Emil
1995	Visiblement je vous aime	Denis
1994	The Chess Game	Max
1993	De force avec d'autres	Denis
1991	The Lovers on the Bridge	Alex
1990	Mona and I	Pierre
1989	Once Around the Park	Berville
1986	Mauvais Sang	Alex
1985	Going and Coming Back	Simon Lerner's patient
1984	Boy Meets Girl	Alex
1984	Long Live Life	Caviar delivery man
1983	After Midnight	(voice)
1983	Entre Nous	Un militaire
1983	The Wounded Man	Wanderer
1982	Les Misérables	Montparnasse
1982	Paris Ficelle	Joe
	Que demande le peuple
	La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture	Narrateur
	Redoubt	Karl-Göran Persson
	Dante's Divine Comedy	Narrator / Virgil / Dante
	Erratic Blocks	Lucien Le Saint
	The Stranger

Year	TV Show	Role
2019	The Traveller	Alberto
2016	Midnight Sun	Pierre Carnot
2012	Square	Self
2009	The Little Murders of Agatha Christie	André Custe