Denis Lavant
- Acting
- June 17, 1961 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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
Filmography
- Erratics · Lucien Le Saint
- Inquisitions · L'inquisiteur
- The Inquisition · Self
- In All My Journeys I Am Returning
- The End · Voice
- Redoubt · Karl-Göran Persson
- In the Land of Arto · Rob
- L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
- The Stranger · Salamano
- Sibyl · (Archive footage)
- Hyacinthe · Reda
- Bacon-Freud, face à face · Voix-off
- Demons to Diamonds · The prisoner
- Hotel Fantasma
- In the Name of Blood · Jacques
- Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino · Self
- Fracas · Writer
- Two Night Owls in Paris · Le bouquiniste
- It's Not Me · Monsieur Merde
- The Boy Who Owns the World · Kasimir
- Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
- Thunder Voice · Prophet
- Body of Crime
- Hood Witch · Jules
- Poisson rouge · Père de Guillaume
- Miserable Miracle · Narrator (French)
- The Green Eyes
- L'Impossible Monsieur Simon · Self
- Human Flowers of Flesh · Galoup
- All Effort of Men · Narrator (Voice)
- Aymeline · Franco Fontane
- X14
- Tell Me Iggy · Self
- Le discours · Le politicien
- South Sentinel · Commandant de Royer
- Tralala · Climby
- The Nipple Whisperer · Maurice Sanders
- Night of the Kings · Silence
- Silver Skates · Fourier
- Gagarine · Gérard
- The Blue Star · Le Narrateur
- The Escapade · Jacques
- Figurant
- Who the Fuck Are You · Psychiatrist
- Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux · Monsieur Loyal
- Girls with Balls · Barman
- The Mountain · Jack
- The Traveller · Alberto
- Silent Streams
- The Bra · Kamal
- The Emperor of Paris · Maillard
- Scaramouche Scaramouche · Scaramouche
- One Nation, One King · Marat
- Fan Club · Damien
- Cornelius, the Howling Miller · Doctor de Chomo
- 3 Days in Quiberon · Fisherman Poet
- The Night Eats the World · Alfred
- My Intelligent Comedy · Allen
- Gray House · Self
- Kazarken: As We Dig · Chiron, le centaure
- Midnight Sun · Pierre Carnot
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Boris Without Beatrice · L'Inconnu
- History's Future · Lottery Ticket Seller
- 21 Nights with Pattie · André
- Eva Doesn't Sleep · Koenig
- Me and Kaminski · Karl-Ludwig
- Graziella · Antoine
- Austerlitz · Jacques Austerlitz
- Dark Forests · Voice
- Pitchipoï · Pierre Schulmann
- Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts · Self
- Le mystère des jonquilles · Sam
- The Iron Ivan · Eugene de Paris
- Journey to the West · Dragon
- Mr. X · Self
- Ogaden
- Jiminy · Otto Hoffmann
- Je sens plus la vitesse
- Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas · The Theologist