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Denis Lavant

Born: 1961-06-17

From: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

About: 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.


Film credits:

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