Denis Lavant
Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French actor .
Life
Denis Lavant gained first experience in street theater and then took acting lessons from Jacques Lassalle .
He played his first role in the 1982 television film L'ombre sur la plage . In the same year he stood in front of the camera for Robert Hossein's film version of Die Elenden . He then appeared in various supporting roles, including in Claude Lelouch's film Viva la vie! with Charlotte Rampling . In 1984, while working on Boy Meets Girl, he first met director Leos Carax , in whose two subsequent films Lavant also starred. The shooting of the third joint production, Die Liebenden von Pont-Neuf, stretched over four years and put a strain on the relationship between the two artists. The film, in which Juliette Binoche also took part, was released in 1991 and brought Denis Lavant a nomination for the European Film Award for best actor .
The actor was also some short films before the camera and played in international productions such as 1996 in the South Korean film Wild Animals by Kim Ki-duk . For Claire Denis , Lavant took on a leading role in the critically acclaimed film The Foreign Legionnaire in 1999 . In the same year the actor starred again in Veit Helmer's film Tuvalu and received the award for best actor at the Festival de Cine Español de Málaga for his performance .
In the horror film Deep in the Woods by Lionel Delplanque , Denis Lavant stood in front of the camera with François Berléand and Michel Muller . In 2004, the actor played a small role in the French-American co-production Mathilde - A great love with Audrey Tautou , Marion Cotillard and Jodie Foster . In 2015 he played Jacques Austerlitz in the documentary "Austerlitz" by Stan Neumann based on the book Austerlitz by WG Sebald .
Filmography (selection)
- 1982: L'ombre sur la plage (TV) - Director: Luc Béraud
- 1982: The Legion of the Damned (Les misérables) - Director: Robert Hossein
- 1983: Paris ficelle (short film) - directed by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa
- 1983: Entre Nous - Dreams of Tenderness (Coup de foudre) - Director: Diane Kurys
- 1983: The Seduced Man - L'Homme blessé (L'homme blessé)
- 1984: Viva la vie! - Directed by Claude Lelouch
- 1984 Boy Meets Girl - Director: Leos Carax
- 1985: go away and come back (partir, revenir)
- 1985: Hôtel du siècle (TV series)
- 1986: Oscar et Valentin (TV) - Director: François Dupont-Midi
- 1986: The Night is Young (Mauvais sang) - Director: Leos Carax
- 1987: L'étendu (short film) - Gilles Marchand
- 1988: Maigret et l'homme de la rue (TV) - Director: Jean Kerchbron
- 1989: Un tour de manège - Director: Pierre Pradinas
- 1989: Mona et moi - Director: Patrick Grandperret
- 1991: C'est merveilleux (short film) - Director: Solange Martin
- 1991: The Lovers of Pont-Neuf (Les amants du Pont-Neuf) - Director: Leos Carax
- 1992: Drôle d'immeuble (short film) - directed by Simon Pradinas
- 1993: Fuis la nuit (short film) - Director: Patrick Brunie
- 1993: De force avec d'autres (short film) - Director: Simon Reggiani
- 1994: La partie d'échecs - Director: Yves Hanchar
- 1995: L'ennemi (short film) - Director: Hervé Renoh
- 1995: Visiblement je vous aime - Director: Jean-Michel Carré
- 1996: Wild Animals (Yasaeng dongmul bohoguyeog)
- 1998: Don Juan - Director: Jacques Weber
- 1998: Le monde à l'envers - Director: Rolando Colla
- 1998: Cantique de la racaille - Director: Vincent Ravalec
- 1999: The Foreign Legionnaire (Beau travail) - Director: Claire Denis
- 1999: Tuvalu - Director: Veit Helmer
- 2000: Deep in the Woods - Alone with Fear (Promenons-nous dans les bois)
- 2000: La squale - Director: Fabrice Genestal
- 2001: Married / Unmarried
- 2001: L'affaire Libinski (short film) - directed by Delphine Jaquet and Philippe Lacôte
- 2002: La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan - Director: Vincent Ravalec
- 2004: Luminal - Director: Andrea Vecchiato
- 2004: Mathilde - A great love (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
- 2004: Le soldat inconnu vivant (TV) - Director: Joël Calmettes
- 2005: Camping sauvage - directed by Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri
- 2006: Elégant (short film) - Director: Daniel Wiroth
- 2006: Mister Lonely - Directed by Harmony Korine
- 2007: Capitaine Achab - Director: Philippe Ramos
- 2008: Tokyo! (Short film) - Directors: Michel Gondry , Leos Carax , Bong Joon-ho
- 2010: I'm Not a F ** king Princess (My Little Princess)
- 2011: In the dark forest (Le petit poucet)
- 2012: Holy Motors
- 2013: Michael Kohlhaas
- 2015: Me and Kaminski
- 2015: Eva no duerme - Director: Pablo Agüero
- 2016: Boris sans Béatrice - Director: Denis Côté
- 2018: 3 Days in Quiberon - Director: Emily Atef
Web links
- Denis Lavant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lavant, Denis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuilly-sur-Seine |