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.
Movies
A Very Long Engagement
Six-Soux
The Lovers on the Bridge
Alex
Les Misérables
Montparnasse
Deep in the Woods
Stephane
Tuvalu
Anton
Tokyo!
Merde' (segment "Merde")
Wild Animals
Emil
Wild Camp
Blaise
Beau Travail
Galoup
La Squale
Le joker
Mister Lonely
Charlie Chaplin
Boy Meets Girl
Alex
De force avec d'autres
Denis
Mauvais Sang
Alex
Captain Ahab
Capitaine Achab
The Temptation of St. Tony
Count Korzybski
My Little Princess
Ernst
Holy Motors
Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
The ogre
Long Live Life
Caviar delivery man
Morning Star
Elliot
Mona and I
Pierre
One Nation, One King
Marat
Eye of the Astronomer
Jean Kepler
Melody for a Hustler
L'auto-stoppeur
Marussia
Clochard
Biette
Self
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
The Theologist
Luminal
Ryu
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Marcel Dassault
Once Around the Park
Berville
Married/Unmarried
Love
Journey to the West
Dragon
Don Juan
Pierrot
Me and Kaminski
Karl-Ludwig
Visiblement je vous aime
Denis
Mr. X
Himself
Pitchipoï
Pierre Schulmann
Dark Forests
Voice
The Chess Game
Max
Eva Doesn't Sleep
Koenig
21 Nights with Pattie
André
Graziella
Antoine
Jiminy
Otto Hoffmann
History's Future
Lottery Ticket Seller
Boris Without Beatrice
L'Inconnu
Le voyage en Occident
Dragon
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Girls with Balls
Barman
Gray House
Self
The Night Eats the World
Alfred
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Self
The Wounded Man
Wanderer
Going and Coming Back
Le patient de Simon Lerner
The Escapade
Jacques
My Intelligent Comedy
Himself
The Bra
Kamal
3 Days in Quiberon
Fisherman Poet
Cornélius, le meunier hurlant
Doctor de Chomo
The Mountain
Jack
Kazarken: As We Dig
Chiron, le centaure
Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Monsieur Loyal
The Emperor of Paris
Maillard
Silent Streams
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Bezon
Silver Skates
Fourier
The Iron Ivan
Le mystère des jonquilles
Sam
Who the Fuck Are You
Psychiatrist
Figurant
The Blue Star
Le Narrateur
Gagarine
Gérard
Şoför
Tired of Being Handsome
DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Self
Human Flowers of Flesh
Galoup
Night of the Kings
Silence
Le monde à l'envers
Yann Kerebel
The Nipple Whisperer
Maurice Sanders
Happy New Year London
Gerrard Ames
Tralala
Climby
Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
(voice)
In the Name of Blood
Mafia Boss
Hymn to Merde
Merde
Fan Club
Damien
Austerlitz
Jacques Austerlitz
Language Does Not Lie
Narrator (voice)
The Lonely
Scaramouche Scaramouche
Scaramouche
South Sentinel
Commandant de Royer
Atlantika
Entre Nous
Un militaire
Hyacinthe
Que demande le peuple
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
Narrateur
Les Grandes Marées
Marc
Le discours
Le politicien
Aymeline
Franco Fontane
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Hood Witch
Jules
Poisson rouge
Père de Guillaume
Miserable Miracle
Narrator
After Midnight
Ogaden
L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
Himself
It’s Not Me
M. Merde
All Effort of Men
Narrator
X14
Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
Self - Narrator (voice)
Corpus Delicti
The Boy Who Owns the World
Kasimir
Les Williams
Correspondances: Dostoïevski
reader
Thunder Voice
Prophet
If War Comes
Karl-Göran Persson
The Green Eyes
Shows
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
André Custe
Midnight Sun
Pierre Carnot
The Traveller
Alberto
Square
Self