Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

Birthday: 1944-05-24

Place of Birth: Morlaix, Finistère, France

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
The Party

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Agent Trouble
Agent Trouble

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A Few Days with Me
A Few Days with Me

After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggli...

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Three Men and a Cradle
Three Men and a Cradle

Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfrien...

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The Other One's Mug
The Other One's Mug

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a for...

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Agathe Cléry
Agathe Cléry

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French Fried Vacation
French Fried Vacation

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday...

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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

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

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Inspector Blunder
Inspector Blunder

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French Fried Vacation 2
French Fried Vacation 2

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Rendez-vous
Rendez-vous

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds...

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The Wedding Cake
The Wedding Cake

The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the rec...

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The Horse of Pride
The Horse of Pride

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ...

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Desire
Desire

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A Shadow of a Doubt
A Shadow of a Doubt

Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family cri...

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Paroles et musique
Paroles et musique

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Femmes Fatales
Femmes Fatales

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Death on a Rainy Sunday
Death on a Rainy Sunday

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I Hate Actors
I Hate Actors

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up ...

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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Is There a Frenchman in the House?

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Kamikaze
Kamikaze

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Marriage of the Century
Marriage of the Century

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Take It from the Top
Take It from the Top

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilit...

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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Gramps Is in the Resistance

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La Smala
La Smala

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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather pe...

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The Joint Brothers
The Joint Brothers

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My Other Husband
My Other Husband

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

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Men Prefer Fat Girls
Men Prefer Fat Girls

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Madame Edouard
Madame Edouard

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In ...

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A Crime in Paradise
A Crime in Paradise

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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Butterfly on the Shoulder

On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes ...

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Ville à vendre
Ville à vendre

A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He team...

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Hotel America
Hotel America

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car...

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L'Œil au beur(re) noir
L'Œil au beur(re) noir

Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie...

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Marie, the Doll
Marie, the Doll

Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act young...

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As the Moon
As the Moon

Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard, an unemployed heating engin...

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Is This Reasonable?
Is This Reasonable?

A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will hel...

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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collect...

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Billy Ze Kick
Billy Ze Kick

Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads ...

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Entre Nous
Entre Nous

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Mea...

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Sex, Lies and Surgery
Sex, Lies and Surgery

John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their...

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Cross My Heart
Cross My Heart

Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is le...

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Why Not Us?
Why Not Us?

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

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Paulette
Paulette

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no ...

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The Leopard
The Leopard

A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of hi...

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Le Renard jaune
Le Renard jaune

Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars o...

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Le Débutant
Le Débutant

The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theat...

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Courage fuyons
Courage fuyons

At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he f...

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L'Âge d'or de la pub
L'Âge d'or de la pub

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...

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All Mixed Up
All Mixed Up

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

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House Specialty
House Specialty

Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after...

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Nicholas on Holiday
Nicholas on Holiday

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Cookies
Cookies

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his f...

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The Chicks
The Chicks

Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member...

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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of the...

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L'île aux femmes
L'île aux femmes

Marie Hersant, a police captain, arrives on Ouessant, the island where she grew up, to investigate t...

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The Monster
The Monster

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris ...

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The Big Store
The Big Store

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket...

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L'Excès contraire
L'Excès contraire

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Dead Tired
Dead Tired

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically...

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Un jeu d'enfant
Un jeu d'enfant

During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to ke...

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Ma sœur est un chic type
Ma sœur est un chic type

Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother.....

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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life...

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Silence... We're Shooting
Silence... We're Shooting

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Umbrella Coup
Umbrella Coup

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a r...

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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
À votre bon cœur, mesdames

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a...

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A Little Romance
A Little Romance

Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a m...

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Rouges étaient les lilas
Rouges étaient les lilas

In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly ga...

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Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement"...

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Keep Your Right Up
Keep Your Right Up

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles t...

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Peppermint Soda
Peppermint Soda

In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older s...

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Parade
Parade

For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves a...

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My Wife's Girlfriends
My Wife's Girlfriends

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

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