Dominique Lavanant
Date of birth: 1944-05-24
Place of birth: Morlaix, Finistère, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dominique Lavanan
Biography
Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress. She is known for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a particular stereotype of the French upper middle class – to be conservative in both outlook and dress. Dominique Lavanant achieved fame in the mid-1970s while filming Les bronzés with the acting troupe Le Splendid (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel).Her stardom has kept growing ever since. Her filmography includes many successful films: Papy fait de la résistance, La boum, Trois hommes et un couffin, Les bronzés font du ski, Inspecteur la Bavure (alongside Gérard Depardieu). In 1988, she was awarded Best supporting actress for her role in Agent trouble (with Catherine Deneuve). She also starred in the long-lasting French TV series Sœur Thérèse.com (2002-2011) playing a former policer who became a nun but is still a committed detective. Source: Article "Dominique Lavanant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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The Party
1980-12-17
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa
Agent Trouble
1987-08-19
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be
A Few Days with Me
1988-08-14
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggli
Three Men and a Cradle
1985-09-18
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfrien
The Other One's Mug
1979-12-12
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a for
Agathe Cléry
2008-11-11
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When sh
French Fried Vacation
1978-11-11
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006-02-01
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same
Inspector Blunder
1980-12-03
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spo
French Fried Vacation 2
1979-11-22
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for
Rendez-vous
1985-05-15
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds
The Wedding Cake
2010-03-10
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the rec
The Horse of Pride
1980-09-24
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton
Desire
1996-04-10
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, bu
A Shadow of a Doubt
1993-09-11
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family cri
Paroles et musique
1984-12-19
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds hers
Femmes Fatales
1976-02-11
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond.
Death on a Rainy Sunday
1986-09-10
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a con
I Hate Actors
1986-09-10
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982-04-28
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the de
Kamikaze
1986-12-10
A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which har
Marriage of the Century
1985-10-08
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has take
Take It from the Top
1978-08-09
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilit
Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983-10-26
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Ger
La Smala
1984-08-29
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991-04-24
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather pe
The Joint Brothers
1986-10-15
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up fa
My Other Husband
1983-09-21
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Men Prefer Fat Girls
1981-08-19
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acq
Madame Edouard
2004-06-02
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In
A Crime in Paradise
2001-02-28
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though t
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978-05-03
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes
Ville à vendre
1992-02-26
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He team
Hotel America
1981-12-02
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car
L'Œil au beur(re) noir
1987-11-04
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie
Marie, the Doll
1976-08-25
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act young
As the Moon
1977-08-31
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard, an unemployed heating engin
Is This Reasonable?
1981-03-25
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will hel
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
1977-10-19
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collect
Billy Ze Kick
1985-12-18
Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads
Entre Nous
1983-04-06
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea
Sex, Lies and Surgery
2012-06-27
John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their
Cross My Heart
1991-02-27
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is le
Why Not Us?
1981-06-14
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
Paulette
2012-10-04
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no
The Leopard
1984-03-14
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of hi
Le Renard jaune
2013-06-26
Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars o
Le Débutant
1986-05-19
The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theat
Courage fuyons
1979-10-17
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he f
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television
All Mixed Up
1985-03-19
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
House Specialty
1978-01-01
Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after
Nicholas on Holiday
2014-07-09
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicol
Cookies
1975-08-20
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his f
The Chicks
1985-01-30
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003-01-03
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of the
L'île aux femmes
2016-04-14
Marie Hersant, a police captain, arrives on Ouessant, the island where she grew up, to investigate t
The Monster
1994-10-22
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris
The Big Store
1973-09-06
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket
L'Excès contraire
1988-09-11
Dead Tired
1994-05-18
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically
Un jeu d'enfant
1990-04-04
During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to ke
Ma sœur est un chic type
1994-12-28
Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother..
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1983-08-17
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life
Silence... We're Shooting
1976-05-26
Umbrella Coup
1980-10-08
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a r
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013-12-04
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a
A Little Romance
1979-04-27
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a m
Rouges étaient les lilas
2016-10-14
In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly ga
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979-04-18
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement"
Keep Your Right Up
1987-12-30
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles t
Peppermint Soda
1977-12-14
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older s
Parade
1974-12-18
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves a
My Wife's Girlfriends
1992-11-04
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.