
Denis Lavant
Acting
- Born:
- 1961-06-17
- Place of birth:
- 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

Inquisitions

The Inquisition

In All My Journeys I Am Returning

The End

Redoubt

In the Land of Arto
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST

The Stranger

Sibyl

Hyacinthe

Bacon-Freud, face à face

Demons to Diamonds

Hotel Fantasma

In the Name of Blood

Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino

Fracas

Two Night Owls in Paris

It's Not Me

The Boy Who Owns the World

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui

Thunder Voice

Body of Crime

Hood Witch

Poisson rouge

Miserable Miracle

The Green Eyes

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon

Human Flowers of Flesh

All Effort of Men

Aymeline

X14

Tell Me Iggy

Le discours

South Sentinel

Tralala

The Nipple Whisperer

Night of the Kings

Silver Skates

Gagarine

The Blue Star
The Escapade

Figurant

Who the Fuck Are You

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux

Girls with Balls

The Mountain

The Traveller

Silent Streams

The Bra

The Emperor of Paris

Scaramouche Scaramouche

One Nation, One King
Fan Club

Cornelius, the Howling Miller

3 Days in Quiberon

The Night Eats the World

My Intelligent Comedy

Gray House

Kazarken: As We Dig

Midnight Sun

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Boris Without Beatrice
History's Future

21 Nights with Pattie

Eva Doesn't Sleep

Me and Kaminski

Graziella

Austerlitz

Dark Forests

Pitchipoï

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

Le mystère des jonquilles

The Iron Ivan

Journey to the West

Mr. X
Ogaden
Jiminy

Je sens plus la vitesse

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

Biette

Les Grandes Marées

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel

Marussia

Tired of Being Handsome

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus

DRIVE IN Holy Motors

Morning Star

Holy Motors

Eye of the Astronomer

Square

Hop-o'-My-Thumb

My Little Princess

Hitler in Hollywood

Atlantika

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète

The Temptation of St. Tony

Hymn to Merde
The Lonely
Les Williams

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

Tokyo!

Captain Ahab

Mister Lonely

Happy New Year London

Wild Camp

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

Language Does Not Lie

A Very Long Engagement

Luminal

Correspondances: Dostoïevski

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

Married/Unmarried

Şoför

La Squale

Deep in the Woods

Beau Travail

Tuvalu

Melody for a Hustler

Le monde à l'envers

Don Juan

Wild Animals

Visiblement je vous aime

The Chess Game
De force avec d'autres

The Lovers on the Bridge

Mona and I

Once Around the Park

Mauvais Sang

Going and Coming Back

Boy Meets Girl

Long Live Life

After Midnight

The Wounded Man

Entre Nous

Les Misérables
L'Ombre sur la plage

Paris Ficelle
Que demande le peuple
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Dante's Divine Comedy
Makunaíma XXI

Waster
7 jours 4000 ans
The Rope
Fol

The Countess of Monte Cristo