Denis Lavant
Actor
Born June 17, 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.
Filmography
Waster
Waster
The Countess of Monte Cristo
The End
(voice)
Redoubt
Karl-Göran Persson
In the Land of Arto
Rob
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
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
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
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
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 (uncredited)
Le mystère des jonquilles
Sam
The Iron Ivan
Eugene de Paris
Journey to the West
Dragon
Mr. X
Self
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
The Theologist
Biette
Self
Les Grandes Marées
Marc
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Self
Marussia
Clochard
Tired of Being Handsome
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Marcel Dassault
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Self
Morning Star
Elliot
Holy Motors
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Eye of the Astronomer
Jean Kepler
Square
Self
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
The ogre
My Little Princess
Ernst
Hitler in Hollywood
Denis Lavant
Atlantika
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Bezon
The Temptation of St. Tony
Count Korzybski
Hymn to Merde
Merde
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
(voice)
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
André Custe
Tokyo!
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Captain Ahab
Capitaine Achab
Mister Lonely
Charlie Chaplin
Happy New Year London
Gerrard Ames
Wild Camp
Blaise
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Self
Language Does Not Lie
Narrator (voice)
A Very Long Engagement
Six-Soux
Luminal
Ryu
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
reader
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Self - Narrator (voice)
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
(voice)
Married/Unmarried
Love
Şoför
The Driver
La Squale
Le joker
Deep in the Woods
Stephane
Beau Travail
Galoup
Tuvalu
Anton
Melody for a Hustler
L'auto-stoppeur
Le monde à l'envers
Yann Kerebel
Don Juan
Pierrot
Wild Animals
Emil
Visiblement je vous aime
Denis
The Chess Game
Max
The Lovers on the Bridge
Alex
Mona and I
Pierre
Once Around the Park
Berville
Mauvais Sang
Alex
Going and Coming Back
Simon Lerner's patient
Boy Meets Girl
Alex
Long Live Life
Caviar delivery man
After Midnight
(voice)
The Wounded Man
Wanderer
Entre Nous
Un militaire
Les Misérables
Montparnasse
L'Ombre sur la plage
Paris Ficelle
Joe