Personal Info
Birthday
June 17, 1961
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (129)
No Backdrop
0.0
In All My Journeys I Am Returning
Movie2026
0.0
The End
Movie2026
4.0
Redoubt
Movie2026
5.0
In the Land of Arto
Movie2025
6.7
The Stranger
Movie2025
0.0
Sibyl
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
Hyacinthe
Movie2025
8.0
Bacon-Freud, face à face
Movie2025
0.0
Demons to Diamonds
Movie2025
0.0
Hotel Fantasma
Movie2025
5.9
In the Name of Blood
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
Movie2024
0.0
Fracas
Movie2024
8.0
Two Night Owls in Paris
Movie2024
7.1
It's Not Me
Movie2024
8.5
The Boy Who Owns the World
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
Thunder Voice
Movie2023
0.0
Body of Crime
Movie2023
6.0
Hood Witch
Movie2023
4.9
Poisson rouge
Movie2023
0.0
Miserable Miracle
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
The Green Eyes
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Movie2023
6.0
Human Flowers of Flesh
Movie2023
No Backdrop
7.5
All Effort of Men
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Aymeline
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
X14
Movie2022
6.0
Tell Me Iggy
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Le discours
Movie2022
5.7
South Sentinel
Movie2022
5.6
Tralala
Movie2021
No Backdrop
6.3
The Nipple Whisperer
Movie2021
6.6
Night of the Kings
Movie2021
7.5
Silver Skates
Movie2020
6.6
Gagarine
Movie2020
No Backdrop
0.0
The Blue Star
Movie2020
6.4
Figurant
Movie2019
No Backdrop
7.0
Who the Fuck Are You
Movie2019
6.6
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Movie2019
4.2
Girls with Balls
Movie2019
5.1
The Mountain
Movie2019
7.0
The Traveller
TV Series2019
No Backdrop
5.0
Silent Streams
Movie2019
6.0
The Bra
Movie2019
6.3
The Emperor of Paris
Movie2018
No Backdrop
0.0
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Movie2018
5.6
One Nation, One King
Movie2018
4.7
Cornelius, the Howling Miller
Movie2018
6.3
3 Days in Quiberon
Movie2018
6.1
The Night Eats the World
Movie2018
6.8
My Intelligent Comedy
Movie2018
1.0
Gray House
Movie2017
No Backdrop
5.8
Kazarken: As We Dig
Movie2016
7.1
Midnight Sun
TV Series2016
5.8
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Movie2016
6.5
Boris Without Beatrice
Movie2016
5.7
21 Nights with Pattie
Movie2015
5.2
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Movie2015
6.0
Me and Kaminski
Movie2015
2.3
Graziella
Movie2015
No Backdrop
0.0
Austerlitz
Movie2015
No Backdrop
5.1
Dark Forests
Movie2015
5.0
Pitchipoï
Movie2015
No Backdrop
4.1
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Movie2014
No Backdrop
3.6
Le mystère des jonquilles
Movie2014
6.0
The Iron Ivan
Movie2014
6.3
Journey to the West
Movie2014
5.9
Mr. X
Movie2014
5.9
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Movie2013
0.0
Biette
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Les Grandes Marées
Movie2013
No Backdrop
1.0
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Movie2013
No Backdrop
6.3
Marussia
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Tired of Being Handsome
Movie2013
No Backdrop
2.0
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Movie2013
No Backdrop
6.0
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Movie2013
3.5
Morning Star
Movie2012
7.0
Holy Motors
Movie2012
3.3
Eye of the Astronomer
Movie2012
0.0
Square
TV Series2012
5.5
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Movie2011
6.5
My Little Princess
Movie2011
6.2
Hitler in Hollywood
Movie2011
No Backdrop
0.0
Atlantika
Movie2011
No Backdrop
4.0
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Movie2010
6.9
The Temptation of St. Tony
Movie2009
6.0
Hymn to Merde
Movie2009
7.0
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
Movie2009
7.4
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
TV Series2009
6.9
Tokyo!
Movie2008
4.2
Captain Ahab
Movie2008
6.6
Mister Lonely
Movie2008
No Backdrop
6.0
Happy New Year London
Movie2007
4.5
Wild Camp
Movie2005
0.0
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
Movie2005
7.3
Language Does Not Lie
Movie2004
7.3
A Very Long Engagement
Movie2004
5.2
Luminal
Movie2004
No Backdrop
0.0
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Movie2003
No Backdrop
7.0
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Movie2002
No Backdrop
3.7
Married/Unmarried
Movie2001
No Backdrop
0.0
Şoför
Movie2001
6.1
La Squale
Movie2000
4.0
Deep in the Woods
Movie2000
7.1
Beau Travail
Movie2000
6.0
Tuvalu
Movie1999
3.2
Melody for a Hustler
Movie1998
No Backdrop
10.0
Le monde à l'envers
Movie1998
4.5
Don Juan
Movie1998
5.9
Wild Animals
Movie1997
No Backdrop
4.7
Visiblement je vous aime
Movie1995
4.8
The Chess Game
Movie1994
7.4
The Lovers on the Bridge
Movie1991
No Backdrop
5.4
Mona and I
Movie1990
No Backdrop
4.0
Once Around the Park
Movie1989
7.1
Mauvais Sang
Movie1986
6.5
Going and Coming Back
Movie1985
6.7
Boy Meets Girl
Movie1984
6.0
Long Live Life
Movie1984
9.0
After Midnight
Movie1983
5.8
The Wounded Man
Movie1983
6.7
Entre Nous
Movie1983
7.0
Les Misérables
Movie1982
8.5
L'Ombre sur la plage
Movie1982
10.0
Paris Ficelle
Movie1982
0.0
Waster
MovieN/A
0.0
The Countess of Monte Cristo
TV SeriesN/A