Denis Lavant

ActorWriter Jun 17 (age 64) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France 1982–2026 (44 year career)

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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

Film

A Very Long Engagement

Six-Soux

Film

Holy Motors

Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer

Film

The Lovers on the Bridge

Alex

Film

Silver Skates

Fourier

Film

Beau Travail

Galoup

Film

The Night Eats the World

Alfred

Film

Mauvais Sang

Alex

Film

The Emperor of Paris

Maillard

Filmography

Acting (139)

Movies (134)

Redoubt

2026

as Karl-Göran Persson

Bacon-Freud, face à face

as Voix-off

The Stranger

as Salamano

Hotel Fantasma

In the Name of Blood

as Jacques

In the Land of Arto

as Rob

Demons to Diamonds

as The prisoner

Sibyl

2025

as (Archive footage)

Hyacinthe

2025

as Reda

L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST

2025

Two Night Owls in Paris

as Le bouquiniste

It's Not Me

as Monsieur Merde

Fracas

The Boy Who Owns the World

2024

as Kasimir

8.5

Miserable Miracle

2023

as Narrator (French)

Hood Witch

2023

as Jules

6.1

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui

Poisson rouge

as Père de Guillaume

Body of Crime

Human Flowers of Flesh

2023

as Galoup

6.0

The Green Eyes

2023

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon

2023

as Self

Thunder Voice

2023

as Prophet

All Effort of Men

2022

as Narrator (voice)

Tell Me Iggy

as Self

X14

South Sentinel

as Commandant de Royer

5.7

Aymeline

2022

as Franco Fontane

The Nipple Whisperer

as Maurice Sanders

Tralala

as Climby

Night of the Kings

as Silence

Le discours

as Le politicien

Gagarine

as Gérard

Silver Skates

as Fourier

The Blue Star

as Le Narrateur

The Escapade

2019

as Jacques

The Mountain

as Jack

Girls with Balls

as Barman

The Bra

as Kamal

Silent Streams

Figurant

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux

2019

as Monsieur Loyal

6.6

Who the Fuck Are You

2019

as Psychiatrist

The Night Eats the World

2018

as Alfred

6.0

Cornelius, the Howling Miller

as Doctor de Chomo

The Emperor of Paris

as Maillard

One Nation, One King

as Marat

Fan Club

as Damien

3 Days in Quiberon

2018

as Fisherman Poet

6.3

My Intelligent Comedy

2018

as Allen

6.8

Scaramouche Scaramouche

2018

as Scaramouche

Gray House

2017

as Self

1.0

Boris Without Beatrice

2016

as L'Inconnu

6.5

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

2016

as Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5.8

History's Future

2016

as Lottery Ticket Seller

3.9

Kazarken: As We Dig

2016

as Chiron, le centaure

5.8

21 Nights with Pattie

as André

Pitchipoï

as Pierre Schulmann

Graziella

as Antoine

Me and Kaminski

as Karl-Ludwig

Austerlitz

as Jacques Austerlitz

Eva Doesn't Sleep

as Koenig

Dark Forests

as Voice

Le mystère des jonquilles

as Sam

Mr. X

as Self

Journey to the West

as Dragon

The Iron Ivan

as Poddubny's Coach

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

as Self (uncredited)

Ogaden

Marussia

as Clochard

Biette

as Self

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

2013

as Self

6.0

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

2013

as The Theologist

5.9

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

2013

as Self

1.0

Les Grandes Marées

2013

as Marc

Jiminy

2013

as Otto Hoffmann

7.2

Tired of Being Handsome

2013

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus

2013

as Marcel Dassault

2.0

Holy Motors

2012

as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer

7.0

Eye of the Astronomer

as Jean Kepler

Morning Star

as Elliot

My Little Princess

as Ernst

Atlantika

Hop-o'-My-Thumb

as The ogre

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète

2010

as Bezon

4.0

The Lonely

2009

The Temptation of St. Tony

2009

as Count Korzybski

6.9

Les Williams

2009

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir

as (voice)

Hymn to Merde

as Merde

Tokyo!

as Merde' (segment "Merde")

Mister Lonely

as Charlie Chaplin

Captain Ahab

as Capitaine Achab

Happy New Year London

as Gerrard Ames

Wild Camp

as Blaise

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

2005

as Self

Language Does Not Lie

2004

as Narrator (voice)

8.0

A Very Long Engagement

as Six-Soux

Luminal

as Ryu

Correspondances: Dostoïevski

2003

as reader

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait

2003

as Self - Narrator (voice)

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

2002

as (voice)

Married/Unmarried

2001

as Love

2.6

Şoför

2001

as The Driver

Beau Travail

as Galoup

Deep in the Woods

as Stephane

La Squale

as Le joker

Tuvalu

as Anton

Le monde à l'envers

as Yann Kerebel

Don Juan

as Pierrot

Melody for a Hustler

as L'auto-stoppeur

Wild Animals

as Emil

Visiblement je vous aime

as Denis

The Chess Game

as Max

De force avec d'autres

1993

as Denis

5.0

The Lovers on the Bridge

as Alex

Mona and I

as Pierre

Once Around the Park

as Berville

Mauvais Sang

as Alex

Going and Coming Back

1985

as Simon Lerner's patient

6.5

Long Live Life

1984

as Caviar delivery man

Boy Meets Girl

as Alex

After Midnight

as (voice)

The Wounded Man

as Wanderer

Entre Nous

as Un militaire

Paris Ficelle

as Joe

Les Misérables

1982

as Montparnasse

6.9

La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture

as Narrateur

Que demande le peuple

Makunaíma XXI

Dante's Divine Comedy

as Narrator / Virgil / Dante

Erratic Blocks

as Lucien Le Saint

The End

as (voice)

Waster

as Waster

Television (5)

The Traveller

as Alberto

Midnight Sun

as Pierre Carnot

Square

as Self

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009

as André Custe

7.4

La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Fracas

2024

Writer