Denis Lavant
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Denis Lavant

Jun 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.

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Movie2018Fan ClubDamien
Movie2023Miserable MiracleNarrator (French)
Movie2015AusterlitzJacques Austerlitz
Movie1991The Lovers on the BridgeAlex
Movie2004A Very Long EngagementSix-Soux
Movie2004Language Does Not LieNarrator (voice)
Movie1982Les MisérablesMontparnasse
Movie2009The Lonely
Movie2000Deep in the WoodsStephane
Movie1999TuvaluAnton
Movie2018Scaramouche ScaramoucheScaramouche
Movie2008Tokyo!Merde' (segment "Merde")
Movie1997Wild AnimalsEmil
Movie2022South SentinelCommandant de Royer
Movie2011Atlantika
Movie2005Wild CampBlaise
Movie2000Beau TravailGaloup
Movie2000La SqualeLe joker
Movie2008Mister LonelyCharlie Chaplin
Movie1984Boy Meets GirlAlex
Movie1993De force avec d'autresDenis
Movie1983After Midnight(voice)
Movie2008Captain AhabCapitaine Achab
Movie1986Mauvais SangAlex
Movie2009The Temptation of St. TonyCount Korzybski
Movie2014Ogaden
Movie2023L'Impossible Monsieur SimonSelf
Movie2024It's Not MeMonsieur Merde
Movie2011My Little PrincessErnst
Movie2022All Effort of MenNarrator (voice)
Movie1983Entre NousUn militaire
Movie2012Holy MotorsMr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
Movie2011Hop-o'-My-ThumbThe ogre
Movie1990Mona and IPierre
Movie1984Long Live LifeCaviar delivery man
Movie2012Morning StarElliot
Movie2012Eye of the AstronomerJean Kepler
Movie1998Melody for a HustlerL'auto-stoppeur
Movie2022X14
Movie2013MarussiaClochard
Movie2013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael KohlhaasThe Theologist
Movie2013BietteSelf
Movie2004LuminalRyu
Movie2013Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessusMarcel Dassault
Movie2003Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstraitSelf - Narrator (voice)
Movie1989Once Around the ParkBerville
Movie1998Don JuanPierrot
Movie2014Journey to the WestDragon
Movie2023Body of Crime
Movie2001Married/UnmarriedLove
Movie2024The Boy Who Owns the WorldKasimir
Movie2025HyacintheReda
Movie2015Me and KaminskiKarl-Ludwig
MovieN/AQue demande le peuple
MovieN/ALa nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourritureNarrateur
Movie2009Les Williams
Movie2003Correspondances: Dostoïevskireader
Movie2023Thunder VoiceProphet
Movie1995Visiblement je vous aimeDenis
Movie2013Les Grandes MaréesMarc
Movie2014Mr. XSelf
Movie2015PitchipoïPierre Schulmann
Movie2021Le discoursLe politicien
MovieN/ARedoubtKarl-Göran Persson
Movie2015Dark ForestsVoice
Movie1994The Chess GameMax
Movie2022AymelineFranco Fontane
Movie2015Eva Doesn't SleepKoenig
Movie201521 Nights with PattieAndré
Movie2002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan(voice)
Movie2024Hood WitchJules
Movie2023Poisson rougePère de Guillaume
Movie2023The Green Eyes
Movie2015GraziellaAntoine
Movie2013JiminyOtto Hoffmann
Movie2016History's FutureLottery Ticket Seller
Movie2016Boris Without BeatriceL'Inconnu
Movie2025In the Land of Arto
Movie1982Paris FicelleJoe
Movie2016Louis-Ferdinand CélineLouis-Ferdinand Céline
Movie2019Girls with BallsBarman
Movie2017Gray HouseSelf
Movie2018The Night Eats the WorldAlfred
Movie2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis BuñuelSelf
Movie2018One Nation, One KingMarat
Movie2019The EscapadeJacques
Movie1985Going and Coming BackSimon Lerner's patient
Movie1983The Wounded ManWanderer
Movie20183 Days in QuiberonFisherman Poet
Movie2019The BraKamal
Movie2018My Intelligent ComedyAllen
Movie2018Cornelius, the Howling MillerDoctor de Chomo
Movie2019The MountainJack
Movie2016Kazarken: As We DigChiron, le centaure
Movie2019Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beauxMonsieur Loyal
Movie2018The Emperor of ParisMaillard
Movie2019Silent Streams
Movie2010Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poèteBezon
Movie2020Silver SkatesFourier
Movie2014The Iron IvanPoddubny's Coach
Movie2014Le mystère des jonquillesSam
Movie2019Who the Fuck Are YouPsychiatrist
Movie2019Figurant
Movie2020The Blue StarLe Narrateur
Movie2020GagarineGérard
Movie2001ŞoförThe Driver
Movie2013Tired of Being Handsome
Movie2013DRIVE IN Holy MotorsSelf
Movie2023Human Flowers of FleshGaloup
Movie2021Night of the KingsSilence
Movie1998Le monde à l'enversYann Kerebel
Movie2021The Nipple WhispererMaurice Sanders
Movie2007Happy New Year LondonGerrard Ames
Movie2021TralalaClimby
Movie2009Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir(voice)
Movie2009Hymn to MerdeMerde
Movie2025In the Name of BloodJacques
MovieN/ADante's Divine ComedyNarrator / Virgil / Dante
Movie2024Two Night Owls in ParisLe bouquiniste
Movie2023Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui
Movie2024Fracas
MovieN/AErratic BlocksLucien Le Saint
Movie2025DEMONS TO DIAMONDS
Movie2005Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"Self
Movie2025The Stranger
MovieN/AMakunaíma XXI
Movie2025Sibyl(Archive footage)
Movie2025Bacon-Freud, face à faceVoix-off
TV Show2009The Little Murders of Agatha ChristieAndré Custe1
TV Show2016Midnight SunPierre Carnot8
TV Show2012SquareSelf1
TV Show2019The TravellerAlberto1

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