Denis Lavant (born 17 June 1961) is a French actor. He is 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 two of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail, and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely.
Lavant was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, in France. At 13, he took courses in pantomime and the circus, fascinated by Marcel Marceau. He trained at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Lassalle,[1] and began his professional career in 1982 in theatre, acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. In 1982 he appeared in the television film L'Ombre sur la plage, before playing the minor part of Montparnasse in Robert Hossein's Les Misérables,[1] which was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.[2] He appeared in several further minor roles before making his 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.[3][4]
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.[3] In 1998, Lavant appeared in the Jonathan Glazer-directed video for the UNKLE song "Rabbit in Your Headlights", and in 1999, he played one of the lead roles in Beau Travail, directed by Claire Denis. In 2007, he appeared in Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, in which he portrayed a Charlie Chaplin impersonator. Lavant, who does not speak English, took an intensive language course in preparation and learned his lines phonetically.[5] His 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 filmTokyo!, which marked their 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, he starred in Leos Carax' film Holy Motors where he 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."[6] The film was an entrant at the Cannes Film Festival.
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
^BBrooks, Xan (11 June 2012), Kylie should be so lucky as film hits the jackpot, The Guardian
^"Gagarine - Full Cast and Crew". TV Guide. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
^Elsa Keslassy. (2023-06-21). "'Annette' Director Leos Carax Helms Self-Portrait 'It's Not Me;' Les Films du Losange Boards Project (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
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Denis Lavant born 17 June 1961 is a French actor He is 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 two of Carax s films Lavant is also known for his roles in Claire Denis Beau Travail and Harmony Korine s Mister Lonely Denis LavantLavant at the 2013 Cannes Film FestivalBorn 1961 06 17 17 June 1961 age 62 Neuilly sur Seine Hauts de Seine FranceOccupationActorYears active1982 present Contents 1 Life and career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External linksLife and career editLavant was born in Neuilly sur Seine Hauts de Seine in France At 13 he took courses in pantomime and the circus fascinated by Marcel Marceau He trained at the Paris Conservatoire under Jacques Lassalle 1 and began his professional career in 1982 in theatre acting in Shakespeare s Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice In 1982 he appeared in the television film L Ombre sur la plage before playing the minor part of Montparnasse in Robert Hossein s Les Miserables 1 which was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize 2 He appeared in several further minor roles before making his 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 3 4 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 3 In 1998 Lavant appeared in the Jonathan Glazer directed video for the UNKLE song Rabbit in Your Headlights and in 1999 he played one of the lead roles in Beau Travail directed by Claire Denis In 2007 he appeared in Harmony Korine s Mister Lonely in which he portrayed a Charlie Chaplin impersonator Lavant who does not speak English took an intensive language course in preparation and learned his lines phonetically 5 His 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 their 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 he starred in Leos Carax film Holy Motors where he 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 6 The film was an entrant at the Cannes Film Festival In 2016 he starred in a 30 second clip directed by Yorgos Lanthimos to accompany the song Identikit by Radiohead Filmography editYear Title Role Director Notes1982 L ombre sur la plage Mathieu Luc Beraud TV movieLes Miserables Montparnasse Robert Hossein1983 Entre Nous Soldier Diane KurysThe Wounded Man Wanderer Patrice ChereauParis ficelle Joe Laurence Ferreira Barbosa ShortAu dela de minuit Voice Pierre Barletta Short1984 Viva la vie Caviar delivery man Claude LelouchBoy Meets Girl Alex Leos Carax1985 Partir revenir Simon Lerner s patient Claude Lelouch 2 Hotel du siecle The statue Jean Kerchbron TV series 1 Episode 1986 Cinema 16 Jean Pierre Francois Dupont Midi TV series 1 Episode Mauvais Sang Alex Leos Carax 2 1987 L etendu Gilles Marchand Short1988 Les enquetes du commissaire Maigret P tit Louis Jean Kerchbron 2 TV series 1 Episode 1989 Un tour de manege Berville Pierre PradinasMona et moi Pierre Patrick Grandperret1991 Les Amants du Pont Neuf Alex Leos Carax 3 Nominated European Film Award for Best ActorC est merveilleux Solange Martin Short1992 Drole d immeuble Simon Pradinas Short1993 De force avec d autres Denis Simon ReggianiFuis la nuit Patrick Brunie Short1994 La partie d echecs Max Yves Hanchar Short1995 L ennemi Higra Herve Renoh ShortVisiblement je vous aime Denis Jean Michel Carre1997 Wild Animals Emil Kim Ki duk1998 Don Juan Pierrot Jacques WeberLe monde a l envers Yann Rolando CollaCantique de la racaille The hitchhiker Vincent Ravalec Rabbit in Your Headlights Man Jonathan Glazer Music Video1999 Beau travail Galoup Claire DenisTuvalu Anton Veit Helmer Malaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema Best Actor2000 Deep in the Woods Stephane Lionel DelplanqueLa squale The joker Fabrice Genestal2001 Married Unmarried Love NoliSofor The driver Guldem Durmaz ShortAffaire Libinski Anatoli Libinski Delphine Jaquet Philippe Lacote Short2002 Sous commandant Pere Noel Christophe Vindis ShortLa merveilleuse odyssee de l idiot Toboggan Voice Vincent Ravalec 2 2004 Luminal Ryu Andrea VecchiatoA Very Long Engagement Six Soux Jean Pierre JeunetLe soldat inconnu vivant Voice Joel Calmettes TV movieLow Street Old Man Tom Petch Short2005 Camping sauvage Blaise Christophe Ali Nicolas Bonilauri2006 Elegant Daniel Wiroth Short2007 Le passeur Philippe Lacote 2 ShortMister Lonely Charlie Chaplin Harmony KorineCapitaine Achab Captain Ahab Philippe RamosIyi Seneler Londra Gerard Berkun Oya2008 Tokyo Merde Leos Carax 4 Comment Albert vit bouger les montagnes Harold Vasselin2009 Les Petits Meurtres d Agatha Christie Andre Custe Eric Woreth TV series 1 Episode Les Williams Alban Mench ShortTamanrasset Philippe Merzak Allouache TV movieThe Temptation of St Tony Count Dionysos Korzybski Veiko OunpuuLes cow boys n ont pas peur de mourir Voice Anne Laure Daffis Leo Marchand ShortObsession s Marc Douelec Frederic Tellier TV movie2010 Via Denis Leonore Mercier ShortJe Francois Villon voleur assassin poete Bezon Serge Meynard TV movieTandis qu en bas des hommes en armes Vilard Samuel Rondiere ShortHH Hitler a Hollywood Himself Frederic SojcherIo sono con te Sapiente Guido ChiesaEnterrez nos chiens Lucas Frederic Serve2011 Atlantika Jack Igor Voloshin ShortMy Little Princess Ernst Eva IonescoLes amours perdues Vincent Samanou Acheche Sahlstrom ShortLe petit poucet The Ogre Marina de VanWaster Philippe Prouff Virginie Nallet Short2012 L oeil de l astronome Kepler Stan NeumannHoly 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 ActorToronto Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorIndiewire Critics Poll Best PerformanceInternational Cinephile Society Awards Best ActorNominated Cesar Award for Best ActorNominated Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActorNominated Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated Italian Online Movie Award for Best ActorNominated Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorNominated Lumieres Award for Best ActorNominated National Society of Film Critics Award for Best ActorNominated New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorNominated Online Film Critics Society Award for Best ActorNominated Village Voice Film Poll Best ActorNominated International Online Cinema Awards Best ActorL etoile du jour Elliot Sophie Blondy2013 Barricade le film ShortFatigues d etre beaux The duke Anne Laure Daffis 2 Leo Marchand 2 ShortMarussia The tramp Eva PervoloviciAge of Uprising The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas The theologist Arnaud des PallieresLes grandes marees Marc Mathias Pardo ShortMeandres Voice Elodie Bouedec Florence Miailhe Mathilde Philippon Aginski ShortJe sens plus la vitesse Joanne Delachair ShortJiminy Otto Hoffmann Arthur Molard Short2014 Dassault l homme au pardessus Marcel Dassault Olivier Guignard TV movieJourney to the West Dragon Tsai Ming liangLiberte egalite cheveux lisses The white man Elefterios Zakaropoulos ShortAgafay Olivier Nikolcic ShortIron Ivan Eugene de Paris Gleb OrlovLe mystere des jonquilles Sam Jean Pierre MockyPitchipoi Pierre Schulmann Charles NajmanFracas Kevin Nogues Short2015 Graziella Antoine Mehdi CharefEva no duerme Koenig Pablo AgueroPhasme Jean Maeva Ranaivojaona ShortHistory s Future Lottery Ticket Seller Fiona TanMe and Kaminski Karl Ludwig Wolfgang Becker21 Nights with Pattie Andre Arnaud Larrieu amp Jean Marie LarrieuFull House The Hangman Quentin Bocksberger Short2016 Boris Without Beatrice Boris sans Beatrice The Unknown Denis CoteLouis Ferdinand Celine deux clowns dans la catastrophe Louis Ferdinand Celine Emmanuel Bourdieu2018 A nos peres Monsieur Loyal Franchin DonThe Mountain Jack Rick AlversonThe Night Eats the World Alfred Dominique Rocher2020 Night of the Kings La Nuit des rois Silence Philippe LacoteGagarine Gerard Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh 7 2022 Human Flowers of Flesh Galoup Helena Wittmann2024 It s Not Me C est pas moi 8 Leos Carax 5 References edit a b Denis Lavant in French Allocine fr Retrieved 30 December 2014 13th Moscow International Film Festival 1983 MIFF Archived from the original on 7 November 2013 Retrieved 31 January 2013 a b Singer Leigh 30 August 2021 Where to begin with Leos Carax bfi org uk Retrieved 27 August 2023 Lukenbill Mark 16 October 2013 What it Is to Be Young Two Films by Leos Carax mtv com Retrieved 27 August 2023 Interview with actor Denis Lavant BBrooks Xan 11 June 2012 Kylie should be so lucky as film hits the jackpot The Guardian Gagarine Full Cast and Crew TV Guide Retrieved 24 September 2023 Elsa Keslassy 2023 06 21 Annette Director Leos Carax Helms Self Portrait It s Not Me Les Films du Losange Boards Project EXCLUSIVE Variety Retrieved 2023 06 21 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Denis Lavant Denis Lavant at IMDb Cache cache avec la mort de Mikhail Volokhov Mise en scene de Bernard Sobel Avec Denis Lavant et Hugues Quester CACHE CACHE AVEC LA MORT PARIS PARIS LE CALVAIRE DE 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