
Acting
Born June 17, 1961 · 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.

Redoubt
2026

In the Land of Arto
2025
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST
2025

The Stranger
2025

Sibyl
2025

Hyacinthe
2025

Bacon-Freud, face à face
2025

Demons to Diamonds
2025

Hotel Fantasma
2025

In the Name of Blood
2025

Fracas
2024

Two Night Owls in Paris
2024

It's Not Me
2024

The Boy Who Owns the World
2024

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
2023

Thunder Voice
2023

Body of Crime
2023

Hood Witch
2023

Poisson rouge
2023

Miserable Miracle
2023

The Green Eyes
2023

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
2023

Human Flowers of Flesh
2023

All Effort of Men
2022

Aymeline
2022

X14
2022

Tell Me Iggy
2022

Le discours
2022

South Sentinel
2022

Tralala
2021

The Nipple Whisperer
2021

Night of the Kings
2021

Silver Skates
2020

Gagarine
2020

The Blue Star
2020
The Escapade
2019

Figurant
2019

Who the Fuck Are You
2019

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
2019

Girls with Balls
2019

The Mountain
2019

Silent Streams
2019

The Bra
2019

The Emperor of Paris
2018

Scaramouche Scaramouche
2018

One Nation, One King
2018
Fan Club
2018

Cornelius, the Howling Miller
2018

3 Days in Quiberon
2018

The Night Eats the World
2018

My Intelligent Comedy
2018

Gray House
2017

Kazarken: As We Dig
2016

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
2016

Boris Without Beatrice
2016
History's Future
2016

21 Nights with Pattie
2015

Eva Doesn't Sleep
2015

Me and Kaminski
2015

Graziella
2015

Austerlitz
2015

Dark Forests
2015

Pitchipoï
2015

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014

The Iron Ivan
2014

Journey to the West
2014

Mr. X
2014
Ogaden
2014
Jiminy
2013

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
2013

Biette
2013

Les Grandes Marées
2013

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
2013

Marussia
2013

Tired of Being Handsome
2013

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013

DRIVE IN Holy Motors
2013

Morning Star
2012

Holy Motors
2012

Eye of the Astronomer
2012

Hop-o'-My-Thumb
2011

My Little Princess
2011

Atlantika
2011

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
2010

The Temptation of St. Tony
2009

Hymn to Merde
2009
The Lonely
2009
Les Williams
2009

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
2009

Tokyo!
2008

Captain Ahab
2008

Mister Lonely
2008

Happy New Year London
2007

Wild Camp
2005

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
2005

Language Does Not Lie
2004

A Very Long Engagement
2004

Luminal
2004

Correspondances: Dostoïevski
2003

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
2003

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002

Married/Unmarried
2001

Şoför
2001

La Squale
2000

Deep in the Woods
2000

Beau Travail
2000

Tuvalu
1999

Melody for a Hustler
1998

Le monde à l'envers
1998

Don Juan
1998

Wild Animals
1997

Visiblement je vous aime
1995

The Chess Game
1994
De force avec d'autres
1993

The Lovers on the Bridge
1991

Mona and I
1990

Once Around the Park
1989

Mauvais Sang
1986

Going and Coming Back
1985

Boy Meets Girl
1984

Long Live Life
1984

After Midnight
1983

The Wounded Man
1983

Entre Nous
1983

Les Misérables
1982

L'Ombre sur la plage
1982

Paris Ficelle
1982