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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 17, 1961
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Also Known As
- Дени Лаван
- 드니 라방
Denis Lavant
0.8 Popularity
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
Credits
In the Land of Arto
2025
0.0
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L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025
0.0
The Stranger
as Salamano
2025
6.8
Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson
2025
8.0
Sibyl
as (Archive footage)
2025
0.0
Hyacinthe
as Reda
2025
0.0
Bacon-Freud, face à face
as Voix-off
2025
8.0
Demons to Diamonds
as The prisoner
2025
0.0
Hotel Fantasma
2025
0.0
In the Name of Blood
as Jacques
2025
6.1
Fracas
2024
0.0
Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste
2024
8.0
It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde
2024
7.0
The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir
2024
8.5
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023
0.0
Thunder Voice
as Prophet
2023
0.0
Body of Crime
2023
0.0
Hood Witch
as Jules
2023
6.1
Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume
2023
4.8
Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)
2023
0.0
The Green Eyes
2023
0.0
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self
2023
0.0
Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup
2023
6.0
All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
Aymeline
as Franco Fontane
2022
0.0
X14
2022
0.0
Tell Me Iggy
as Self
2022
8.0
South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer
2022
5.7
Tralala
as Climby
2021
5.6
The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders
2021
6.3
Night of the Kings
as Silence
2021
6.6
Le discours
as Le politicien
2021
0.0
Silver Skates
as Fourier
2020
7.5
Gagarine
as Gérard
2020
6.6
The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
2020
0.0
🎬
The Escapade
as Jacques
2019
0.0
Figurant
2019
7.1
Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist
2019
0.0
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal
2019
6.6
The Bra
as Kamal
2019
6.0
Girls with Balls
as Barman
2019
4.2
The Mountain
as Jack
2019
5.1
The Traveller
as Alberto
2019
6.9
Silent Streams
2019
5.0
The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard
2018
6.3
Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche
2018
0.0
One Nation, One King
as Marat
2018
5.5
🎬
Fan Club
as Damien
2018
0.0
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo
2018
4.7
3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet
2018
6.3
The Night Eats the World
as Alfred
2018
6.0
My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen
2018
6.8
Gray House
as Self
2017
1.0
Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure
2016
5.8
Midnight Sun
as Pierre Carnot
2016
7.2
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016
5.8
Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
2016
6.5
🎬
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller
2016
3.9
21 Nights with Pattie
as André
2015
5.7
Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig
2015
5.2
Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig
2015
6.0
Graziella
as Antoine
2015
2.3
Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz
2015
0.0
Dark Forests
as Voice
2015
5.1
Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann
2015
5.0
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
as Self (uncredited)
2014
4.2
Le mystère des jonquilles
as Sam
2014
4.0
The Iron Ivan
as Poddubny's Coach
2014
6.0
Journey to the West
as Dragon
2014
6.3
Mr. X
as Self
2014
5.9
🎬
Ogaden
2014
0.0
🎬
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann
2013
7.2
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist
2013
5.9
Biette
as Self
2013
0.0
Les Grandes Marées
as Marc
2013
0.0
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as Self
2013
1.0
Marussia
as Clochard
2013
6.3
Tired of Being Handsome
2013
0.0
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault
2013
2.0
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self
2013
6.0
Morning Star
as Elliot
2012
3.5
Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
2012
7.0
Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler
2012
3.3
Square
as Self
2012
0.0
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre
2011
5.5
My Little Princess
as Ernst
2011
6.4
Atlantika
2011
0.0
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
as Bezon
2010
4.0
The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski
2009
6.9
Hymn to Merde
as Merde
2009
6.0
🎬
The Lonely
2009
0.0
🎬
Les Williams
2009
0.0
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)
2009
7.0
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
as André Custe
2009
7.3
Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")
2008
6.9
Captain Ahab
as Capitaine Achab
2008
4.2
Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin
2008
6.5
Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames
2007
6.0
Wild Camp
as Blaise
2005
4.3
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
as Self
2005
0.0
Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)
2004
8.0
A Very Long Engagement
as Six-Soux
2004
7.3
Luminal
as Ryu
2004
4.8
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader
2003
0.0
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
0.0
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (voice)
2002
0.0
Married/Unmarried
as Love
2001
2.6
Şoför
as The Driver
2001
0.0
La Squale
as Le joker
2000
5.9
Deep in the Woods
as Stephane
2000
3.8
Beau Travail
as Galoup
2000
7.1
Tuvalu
as Anton
1999
6.1
Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur
1998
2.5
Le monde à l'envers
as Yann Kerebel
1998
0.0
Don Juan
as Pierrot
1998
4.4
Wild Animals
as Emil
1997
5.8
Visiblement je vous aime
as Denis
1995
4.0
The Chess Game
as Max
1994
4.1
🎬
De force avec d'autres
as Denis
1993
5.0
The Lovers on the Bridge
as Alex
1991
7.4
Mona and I
as Pierre
1990
4.9
Once Around the Park
as Berville
1989
3.0
Mauvais Sang
as Alex
1986
7.1
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner's patient
1985
6.4
Boy Meets Girl
as Alex
1984
6.7
Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man
1984
5.9
After Midnight
as (voice)
1983
10.0
The Wounded Man
as Wanderer
1983
5.6
Entre Nous
as Un militaire
1983
6.6
Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
1982
6.9
Paris Ficelle
as Joe
1982
0.0
🎬
Makunaíma XXI
N/A
0.0
🎬
La Comtesse de Monte-Cristo
N/A
0.0
🎬
Erratic Blocks
as Lucien Le Saint
N/A
0.0
🎬
Dante's Divine Comedy
as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Rose
as (voice)
N/A
0.0
🎬
Que demande le peuple
N/A
0.0
Waster
as Waster
N/A
0.0
🎬
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
as Narrateur
N/A
0.0