🎭 Actor
Denis Lavant
🎂 Born 17 June 1961 (age 65)📍 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Popularity Score
122
Acting Credits
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
Full Filmography(122 films)
YearTitleRating
2025The Stranger★ 6.82012Holy Motors★ 7.02000Beau Travail★ 7.12008Tokyo!★ 6.92004A Very Long Engagement★ 7.31991The Lovers on the Bridge★ 7.42018The Night Eats the World★ 6.02020Silver Skates★ 7.51986Mauvais Sang★ 7.12018The Emperor of Paris★ 6.32011My Little Princess★ 6.52020Gagarine★ 6.61982Les Misérables★ 7.01998Don Juan★ 4.51983The Wounded Man★ 5.82019The Mountain★ 5.12013Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas★ 5.92025In the Land of Arto★ 5.02014The Iron Ivan★ 6.02019Girls with Balls★ 4.21984Long Live Life★ 6.02008Mister Lonely★ 6.62014Mr. X★ 6.01984Boy Meets Girl★ 6.71983Entre Nous★ 6.72025Sibyl—2024It's Not Me★ 7.12000Deep in the Woods★ 3.91985Going and Coming Back★ 6.52025Bacon-Freud, face à face★ 8.01997Wild Animals★ 5.92021Night of the Kings★ 6.62026The End—2018One Nation, One King★ 5.620183 Days in Quiberon★ 6.32015Pitchipoï★ 5.02019The Bra★ 6.01990Mona and I★ 5.42015Me and Kaminski★ 6.02021Tralala★ 5.62022Tell Me Iggy★ 6.02023Hood Witch★ 6.12019Figurant★ 6.42011Hitler in Hollywood★ 6.22014Journey to the West★ 6.32025In the Name of Blood★ 5.92022South Sentinel★ 5.72000La Squale★ 6.12005Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"—2015Eva Doesn't Sleep★ 5.22009The Temptation of St. Tony★ 6.92012Morning Star★ 3.52026Redoubt—2016Louis-Ferdinand Céline★ 5.82001Married/Unmarried★ 3.72014Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts★ 4.1201521 Nights with Pattie★ 5.71989Once Around the Park★ 4.02011Hop-o'-My-Thumb★ 5.51995Visiblement je vous aime★ 4.72018Cornelius, the Howling Miller★ 4.72019Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux★ 6.61982L'Ombre sur la plage★ 8.51998Melody for a Hustler★ 3.22005Wild Camp★ 4.52013Biette—2025Hotel Fantasma—1999Tuvalu★ 6.02016Boris Without Beatrice★ 6.52004Language Does Not Lie★ 7.32008Captain Ahab★ 4.21994The Chess Game★ 4.82015Graziella★ 2.32017Gray House★ 1.02002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan★ 7.01983After Midnight★ 9.02014Le mystère des jonquilles★ 3.62019Silent Streams★ 5.02023Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui—2023L'Impossible Monsieur Simon—2023Poisson rouge★ 4.92007Happy New Year London★ 6.02023The Green Eyes—2024Fracas—2013DRIVE IN Holy Motors★ 6.02013Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus★ 2.02022X14—2023Body of Crime—2013Les Grandes Marées—2025Hyacinthe—2018My Intelligent Comedy★ 6.82024Two Night Owls in Paris★ 8.02023Miserable Miracle—2022All Effort of Men★ 7.52013Tired of Being Handsome—2022Aymeline—2010Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète★ 4.02021The Nipple Whisperer★ 6.32024The Boy Who Owns the World★ 8.52016Kazarken: As We Dig★ 5.82009Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir★ 7.02019Who the Fuck Are You—2013Marussia★ 6.32023Human Flowers of Flesh★ 6.01998Le monde à l'envers★ 10.02025Demons to Diamonds—2004Luminal★ 5.22003Correspondances: Dostoïevski—2011Atlantika—2023Thunder Voice—1982Paris Ficelle★ 10.02024Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino—2022Le discours—2018Scaramouche Scaramouche—2015Austerlitz—2013En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel★ 1.02012Eye of the Astronomer★ 3.32020The Blue Star—2003Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait—2009Hymn to Merde★ 6.02001Şoför—2015Dark Forests★ 5.1