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 troup...
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Complete Filmography

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

Rouges étaient les lilas
2016
as La psy
In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly game of death begins between three women living ther...

L'île aux femmes
2016
as Anne
Marie Hersant, a police captain, arrives on Ouessant, the island where she grew up, to investigate the disturbing disappearance of her childhood frien...

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as 'Mémé'
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards ...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
as Yvette
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures...

Le Renard jaune
2013
as Valérie
Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regular...

Paulette
2012
as Lucienne
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Sex, Lies and Surgery
2012
as Mademoiselle Phillips
John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly in lov...

The Wedding Cake
2010
as La mère de Vincent
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, a...

Agathe Cléry
2008
as Mimie, la mère d'Agathe
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder ...

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006
as Christiane Weissmuller
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

Madame Edouard
2004
as Rose
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn nee...

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...

A Crime in Paradise
2001
as Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. T...

Desire
1996
as Henriette
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Od...

Ma sœur est un chic type
1994
as Claude Charmières
Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother... is a woman!

Ma sœur est un chic type
1994
Author
Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother... is a woman!

The Monster
1994
as Jolanda Taccone
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate ha...

Dead Tired
1994
as Dominique Lavanant
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fa...

A Shadow of a Doubt
1993
as Alexandrine's Teacher
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family crisis, is set forth with remarkable restraint. The s...

My Wife's Girlfriends
1992
as Marguerite
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.

Ville à vendre
1992
as Eva Montier
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to ...

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as Jacqueline Vidart
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Cross My Heart
1991
as Claire's mother
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those around...

Un jeu d'enfant
1990
as Léonie
During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, wh...

L'Excès contraire
1988
as Hanaë

A Few Days with Me
1988
as Madame Fonfrin
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpe...

Keep Your Right Up
1987
as Admiral's Wife
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, ...

L'Œil au beur(re) noir
1987
as Simone Perron
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her s...

Agent Trouble
1987
as Karen
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious b...

Kamikaze
1986
as Laure
A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through t...

The Joint Brothers
1986
as Un flic
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is ...

Death on a Rainy Sunday
1986
as Hazel Bronsky
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head arc...

I Hate Actors
1986
as Miss Davis
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever p...

Le Débutant
1986
as Marguerite Balicourt
The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particula...

Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Madame Achere
Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered...

Marriage of the Century
1985
as Adrienne de la Roussette
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits f...

Three Men and a Cradle
1985
as Ms. Rapons
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of ...

Rendez-vous
1985
as Gertrude
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involv...

All Mixed Up
1985
as L'infirmière du Docteur Belin
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

The Chicks
1985
as Evelyne
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relatio...

Paroles et musique
1984
as Florence
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also ...

La Smala
1984
as Pierrot-Rita
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the ...

The Leopard
1984
as Pauline Fitzgerald
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work, reluctan...

Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
as Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de Michel
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do ...

My Other Husband
1983
as Solange
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1983
as Mireille
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

Entre Nous
1983
as L'aboyeuse
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husba...

Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982
as Ginette Alcazar
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain an...

Hotel America
1981
as Jacqueline
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the leth...

Men Prefer Fat Girls
1981
as Arlette
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.

Why Not Us?
1981
as Jacqueline Puiset
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.

Is This Reasonable?
1981
as Mrs. Lavanant, restaurateur (uncredited)
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, a...

The Party
1980
as Vanessa, François' ex-mistress
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

Inspector Blunder
1980
as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on...

Umbrella Coup
1980
as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. H...

The Horse of Pride
1980
as Marie-Jeanne, la sage-femme
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division...

The Other One's Mug
1979
as la fille de la chambre verte
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious...

French Fried Vacation 2
1979
as Christiane
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Cla...

Courage fuyons
1979
as Mathilda
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer...

A Little Romance
1979
as Mme. Cormier
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage...

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
as Michèle, François' ex-wife
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun...

French Fried Vacation
1978
as Christiane, the frustrated stuck one
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, co...

French Fried Vacation
1978
Writer
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, co...

Take It from the Top
1978
as La voisine
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decid...

Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
as La jeune femme
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who bro...

House Specialty
1978
as Christiane
Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The ...

Peppermint Soda
1977
as The Math Teacher
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer a...

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
1977
as La reine Madeleine
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the co...

As the Moon
1977
as Yvette
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard, an unemployed heating engineer working in his girlfriend's butcher shop, deci...

Marie, the Doll
1976
as Tante Alice
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a s...

Silence... We're Shooting
1976
as The porn actress who doesn't take the pill

Femmes Fatales
1976
as The myopic woman
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émi...

Cookies
1975
as Marie Pape, prostitute in Breton costume
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his man...

Parade
1974
as (uncredited)
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many sp...

The Big Store
1973
as La jeune femme en panne de voiture
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big...