Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

1944-05-24 Morlaix, Finistère, France 76 Credits

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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L'Âge d'or de la pub

L'Âge d'or de la pub

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

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

Rouges étaient les lilas

2016

as La psy

6.0
Acting

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

L'île aux femmes

2016

as Anne

6.9
Acting

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

Nicholas on Holiday

2014

as 'Mémé'

5.3
Acting

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

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

2013

as Yvette

5.0
Acting

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

Le Renard jaune

2013

as Valérie

5.5
Acting

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

Paulette

2012

as Lucienne

6.5
Acting

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

Sex, Lies and Surgery

2012

as Mademoiselle Phillips

5.6
Acting

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

The Wedding Cake

2010

as La mère de Vincent

5.2
Acting

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

Agathe Cléry

2008

as Mimie, la mère d'Agathe

4.8
Acting

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

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

2006

as Christiane Weissmuller

4.1
Acting

After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

Madame Edouard

Madame Edouard

2004

as Rose

4.4
Acting

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

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

2003

as Self

Acting

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

A Crime in Paradise

2001

as Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne

6.6
Acting

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

Desire

1996

as Henriette

5.4
Acting

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

Ma sœur est un chic type

1994

as Claude Charmières

Acting

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

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

The Monster

1994

as Jolanda Taccone

7.0
Acting

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

Dead Tired

1994

as Dominique Lavanant

6.0
Acting

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

A Shadow of a Doubt

1993

as Alexandrine's Teacher

6.2
Acting

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

My Wife's Girlfriends

1992

as Marguerite

4.0
Acting

A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.

Ville à vendre

Ville à vendre

1992

as Eva Montier

4.5
Acting

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

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

1991

as Jacqueline Vidart

5.3
Acting

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart

1991

as Claire's mother

7.0
Acting

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

Un jeu d'enfant

1990

as Léonie

Acting

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

L'Excès contraire

1988

as Hanaë

7.0
Acting
A Few Days with Me

A Few Days with Me

1988

as Madame Fonfrin

5.8
Acting

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

Keep Your Right Up

1987

as Admiral's Wife

6.2
Acting

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

L'Œil au beur(re) noir

1987

as Simone Perron

5.5
Acting

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

Agent Trouble

1987

as Karen

6.0
Acting

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

Kamikaze

1986

as Laure

6.2
Acting

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

The Joint Brothers

1986

as Un flic

5.4
Acting

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

Death on a Rainy Sunday

1986

as Hazel Bronsky

5.1
Acting

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

I Hate Actors

1986

as Miss Davis

5.4
Acting

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

Le Débutant

1986

as Marguerite Balicourt

4.0
Acting

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

Billy Ze Kick

1985

as Madame Achere

5.0
Acting

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

Marriage of the Century

1985

as Adrienne de la Roussette

5.3
Acting

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

Three Men and a Cradle

1985

as Ms. Rapons

6.3
Acting

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

Rendez-vous

1985

as Gertrude

5.6
Acting

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

All Mixed Up

1985

as L'infirmière du Docteur Belin

5.2
Acting

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

The Chicks

The Chicks

1985

as Evelyne

3.2
Acting

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

Paroles et musique

1984

as Florence

5.1
Acting

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

La Smala

1984

as Pierrot-Rita

5.1
Acting

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

The Leopard

1984

as Pauline Fitzgerald

5.7
Acting

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

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983

as Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de Michel

6.9
Acting

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

My Other Husband

1983

as Solange

5.9
Acting

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

1983

as Mireille

3.2
Acting

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

Entre Nous

1983

as L'aboyeuse

6.7
Acting

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?

Is There a Frenchman in the House?

1982

as Ginette Alcazar

5.3
Acting

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

Hotel America

1981

as Jacqueline

6.2
Acting

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

Men Prefer Fat Girls

1981

as Arlette

5.1
Acting

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?

Why Not Us?

1981

as Jacqueline Puiset

5.9
Acting

A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.

Is This Reasonable?

Is This Reasonable?

1981

as Mrs. Lavanant, restaurateur (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

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

The Party

1980

as Vanessa, François' ex-mistress

6.6
Acting

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

Inspector Blunder

1980

as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist

6.3
Acting

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

Umbrella Coup

1980

as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire

6.9
Acting

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

The Horse of Pride

1980

as Marie-Jeanne, la sage-femme

6.1
Acting

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

The Other One's Mug

1979

as la fille de la chambre verte

5.6
Acting

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

French Fried Vacation 2

1979

as Christiane

7.3
Acting

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

Courage fuyons

1979

as Mathilda

6.1
Acting

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

A Little Romance

1979

as Mme. Cormier

6.8
Acting

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

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

1979

as Michèle, François' ex-wife

6.3
Acting

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

French Fried Vacation

1978

as Christiane, the frustrated stuck one

6.6
Acting

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

French Fried Vacation

1978

Writer

6.6
Writing

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

Take It from the Top

1978

as La voisine

5.2
Acting

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

Butterfly on the Shoulder

1978

as La jeune femme

6.0
Acting

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

House Specialty

1978

as Christiane

5.3
Acting

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

Peppermint Soda

1977

as The Math Teacher

6.5
Acting

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

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

1977

as La reine Madeleine

4.7
Acting

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

As the Moon

1977

as Yvette

6.1
Acting

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

Marie, the Doll

1976

as Tante Alice

6.0
Acting

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

Silence... We're Shooting

1976

as The porn actress who doesn't take the pill

1.0
Acting
Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales

1976

as The myopic woman

6.1
Acting

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

Cookies

1975

as Marie Pape, prostitute in Breton costume

6.3
Acting

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

Parade

1974

as (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

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

The Big Store

1973

as La jeune femme en panne de voiture

6.2
Acting

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...