# denis lavant ![[220px-denislavant2013.jpg|300]] lavant at the 2013 cannes film festival born: 17 june 1961 (age 62) neuilly-sur-seine hauts-de-seine france occupation: actor years active: 1982-present denis lavant (born 17 june 1961) is a french actor. ey is known for ir distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles ey plays which often involve slapstick acrobatics or dance as well as for ir long-standing association with director leos carax. lavant has played the lead role in all but two of carax's films. lavant is also known for ir roles in claire denis' beau travail and harmony korine's mister lonely # life and career lavant was born in neuilly-sur-seine hauts-de-seine in france. at 13 ey took courses in pantomime and the circus fascinated by marcel marceau. ey trained at the paris conservatoire under jacques lassalle and began ir professional career in 1982 in theatre acting in shakespeare's hamlet and the merchant of venice. in 1982 ey appeared in the television film l'ombre sur la plage before playing the minor part of montparnasse in robert hossein's les miserables which was entered into the 13th moscow international film festival where it won a special prize. ey appeared in several further minor roles before making ir breakthrough in 1984 as the lead in boy meets girl playing a depressed aspiring filmmaker who falls in love with a suicidal young woman. the film marked the feature-film debut of leos carax with whose work lavant has been associated ever since in 1986 lavant and carax worked together again on the thriller mauvais sang and again in 1991 on carax's third film les amants du pont-neuf. in both mauvais sang and les amants du pont-neuf lavant starred opposite juliette binoche. in 1998 lavant appeared in the jonathan glazer-directed video for the unkle song "rabbit in your headlights" and in 1999 ey played one of the lead roles in beau travail directed by claire denis. in 2007 ey appeared in harmony korine's mister lonely in which ey portrayed a charlie chaplin impersonator. lavant who does not speak english took an intensive language course in preparation and learned ir lines phonetically. ir longtime associate leos carax appears in a supporting role as the main character's talent agent in 2008 lavant and carax re-united for the anthology film tokyo! which marked ir first work together since lovers on the bridge and carax's first major directing work in nearly a decade. carax's segment for the film called "merde-" starred lavant as a violent monster who lives in the sewers of tokyo and speaks in a gibberish language venturing out occasionally to attack passersby in 2012 ey starred in leos carax' film holy motors where ey plays a "chameleonic actor on assignment ferried around paris in a white limousine and changing en route from beggar-woman to satyr to assassin to victim." the film was an entrant at the cannes film festival in 2016 ey starred in a 30-second clip directed by yorgos lanthimos to accompany the song "identikit" by radiohead # filmography year: title: role: director: notes 1982: l'ombre sur la plage: mathieu: luc beraud: tv movie les miserables: montparnasse: robert hossein 1983: entre nous: soldier: diane kurys the wounded man: wanderer: patrice chereau paris ficelle: joe: laurence ferreira barbosa: short au-delà de minuit: voice: pierre barletta: short 1984: viva la vie: caviar delivery man: claude lelouch boy meets girl: alex: leos carax 1985: partir revenir: simon lerner's patient: claude lelouch (2) hôtel du siècle: the statue: jean kerchbron: tv series (1 episode) 1986: cinema 16: jean-pierre: françois dupont-midi: tv series (1 episode) mauvais sang: alex: leos carax (2) 1987: l'etendu:: gilles marchand: short 1988: les enquêtes du commissaire maigret: p'tit louis: jean kerchbron (2): tv series (1 episode) 1989: un tour de manège: berville: pierre pradinas mona et moi: pierre: patrick grandperret 1991: les amants du pont-neuf: alex: leos carax (3): nominated - european film award for best actor c'est merveilleux:: solange martin: short 1992: drôle d'immeuble:: simon pradinas: short 1993: de force avec d'autres: denis: simon reggiani fuis la nuit:: patrick brunie: short 1994: la partie d'echecs: max: yves hanchar: short 1995: l'ennemi: higra: herve renoh: short visiblement je vous aime: denis: jean-michel carre 1997: wild animals: emil: kim ki-duk 1998: don juan: pierrot: jacques weber le monde à l'envers: yann: rolando colla cantique de la racaille: the hitchhiker: vincent ravalec "rabbit in your headlights": man: jonathan glazer: music video 1999: beau travail: galoup: claire denis tuvalu: anton: veit helmer: málaga international week of fantastic cinema - best actor 2000: deep in the woods: stephane: lionel delplanque la squale: the joker: fabrice genestal 2001: married/unmarried: love: noli sofor: the driver: guldem durmaz: short affaire libinski: anatoli libinski: delphine jaquet philippe lacôte: short 2002: sous-commandant père noël:: christophe vindis: short la merveilleuse odyssee de l'idiot toboggan: voice: vincent ravalec (2) 2004: luminal: ryu: andrea vecchiato a very long engagement: six-soux: jean-pierre jeunet le soldat inconnu vivant: voice: joël calmettes: tv movie low street: old man: tom petch: short 2005: camping sauvage: blaise: christophe ali nicolas bonilauri 2006: elegant:: daniel wiroth: short 2007: le passeur:: philippe lacôte (2): short mister lonely: charlie chaplin: harmony korine capitaine achab: captain ahab: philippe ramos iyi seneler londra: gerard: berkun oya 2008: tokyo!: merde: leos carax (4) comment albert vit bouger les montagnes:: harold vasselin 2009: les petits meurtres d'agatha christie: andre custe: eric woreth: tv series (1 episode) les williams:: alban mench: short tamanrasset: philippe: merzak allouache: tv movie the temptation of st. tony: count dionysos korzybski: veiko õunpuu les cow-boys n'ont pas peur de mourir: voice: anne-laure daffis leo marchand: short obsession(s): marc douelec: frederic tellier: tv movie 2010: via: denis: leonore mercier: short je françois villon voleur assassin poète: bezon: serge meynard: tv movie tandis qu'en bas des hommes en armes: vilard: samuel rondière: short hh hitler à hollywood: himself: frederic sojcher io sono con te: sapiente: guido chiesa enterrez nos chiens: lucas: frederic serve 2011: atlantika: jack: igor voloshin: short my little princess: ernst: eva ionesco les amours perdues: vincent: samanou acheche sahlstrøm: short le petit poucet: the ogre: marina de van waster:: philippe prouff virginie nallet: short 2012: l'oeil de l'astronome: kepler: stan neumann holy motors: mr. oscar/ the banker / the beggar / the motion capture actor / monsieur merde / the father / the accordionist / the killer / the killed / the dying / the man at home: leos carax (5): chicago international film festival - best actor toronto film critics association award for best actor indiewire critics' poll - best performance international cinephile society awards - best actor nominated - cesar award for best actor nominated - boston society of film critics award for best actor nominated - chicago film critics association award for best actor nominated - italian online movie award for best actor nominated - los angeles film critics association award for best actor nominated - lumières award for best actor nominated - national society of film critics award for best actor nominated - new york film critics circle award for best actor nominated - online film critics society award for best actor nominated - village voice film poll - best actor nominated - international online cinema awards - best actor l'etoile du jour: elliot: sophie blondy 2013: barricade: le film:: : short fatigues d'être beaux: the duke: anne-laure daffis (2) leo marchand (2): short marussia: the tramp: eva pervolovici age of uprising: the legend of michael kohlhaas: the theologist: arnaud des pallières les grandes marees: marc: mathias pardo: short meandres: voice: elodie bouedec florence miailhe mathilde philippon-aginski: short je sens plus la vitesse:: joanne delachair: short jiminy: otto hoffmann: arthur môlard: short 2014: dassault l'homme au pardessus: marcel dassault: olivier guignard: tv movie journey to the west: dragon: tsai ming-liang liberte egalite cheveux lisses: the white man: elefterios zakaropoulos: short agafay:: olivier nikolcic: short iron ivan: eugene de paris: gleb orlov le mystère des jonquilles: sam: jean-pierre mocky pitchipoï: pierre schulmann: charles najman fracas:: kevin noguès: short 2015: graziella: antoine: mehdi charef eva no duerme: koenig: pablo agüero phasme: jean: maeva ranaivojaona: short history's future: lottery ticket seller: fiona tan me and kaminski: karl-ludwig: wolfgang becker 21 nights with pattie: andre: arnaud larrieu & jean-marie larrieu full house: the hangman: quentin bocksberger: short 2016: boris without beatrice (boris sans beatrice): the unknown: denis côte louis-ferdinand celine deux clowns dans la catastrophe: louis-ferdinand celine: emmanuel bourdieu 2018: à nos pères: monsieur loyal: franchin don the mountain: jack: rick alverson the night eats the world: alfred: dominique rocher 2020: night of the kings (la nuit des rois): silence: philippe lacôte gagarine: gerard: fanny liatard and jeremy trouilh 2022: human flowers of flesh: galoup: helena wittmann 2024: it's not me (c'est pas moi):: leos carax (5) // republic of bob