Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

Nacimiento : 1944-05-24, Morlaix, Finistère, France

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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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Dominique Lavanant
Dominique Lavanant

Películas

Rouges étaient les lilas
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 there.
L'île aux femmes
Anne
Nicholas on Holiday
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 the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Yvette
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
Le Renard jaune
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 regularly insult him. One morning he is found dead in his home. For inspector Giraud, it is clear that the culprit is among the customers of "Le Renard jaune".
El postre de la alegría (Paulette)
Lucienne
Paulette es una viuda agotada del mundo y un tanto racista que vive en un barrio donde el tráfico de drogas y las raterías son habituales. Un día, durante una persecución entre los granujas y la policía, Paulette tropieza con un paquete de hachís. Ese momento marca el comienzo de este personaje desolado, infeliz, con problemas para subsistir, en el mundo del tráfico de drogas, bajo la celosa mirada de los otros camellos...
Sex, Lies and Surgery
Mademoiselle Phillips
John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly in love with Priscilla, a wonderful nurse. But he is betrayed by Michael who decides to marry her. Shattered by his loss, John moves to Canada. But Michael’s new project to dedicate the clinic to plastic surgery leads them to bankruptcy, forcing John to come back in the hope of saving the clinic...
El pastel de boda
La mère de Vincent
Bérengère y Vincent se van a casar respetando las tradiciones de las bodas burguesas y el buen gusto. Siguiendo la costumbre, las familias y los amigos se encuentran en el campo en un bonito día de primavera. Un día trascendental e inolvidable para todos, en el que se revelan secretos familiares que no dejan indiferentes a ninguno de los asistentes.
Agathe Cléry
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 that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
Los bronceados 3: Amigos para la vida
Christiane Weissmuller
En 1979, Popeye, Gigi, Jérôme, Bernard, Nathalie y Jean-Claude se conocieron en Costa de Marfil en un club de vacaciones. Después del Club Med y del esquí, no dejaron de verse, de perderse de vista, de volver a encontrarse,… Después de 25 años nada ha cambiado entre ellos y ahora volverán a encontrarse en el lujoso hotel regentado por Popeye.
Madame Edouard
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 needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.
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 these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Un crimen en el paraíso
Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
Un día, Jojo ve en televisión al famoso abogado Maurice Jacquard que celebra su vigesimoquinto triunfo ante los tribunales. Incapaz de aguantar su matrimonio ni un minuto más, concierta una cita con el letrado y le comunica que ha matado a su mujer (lo cual no es cierto). Haciendo las preguntas apropiadas consigue averiguar cuáles serían las circunstancias atenuantes que podrían exculparlo en caso de asesinarla.
Ma sœur est un chic type
Author
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
Claude Charmières
Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother... is a woman!
El monstruo
Jolanda Taccone
El inspector Frustalupi está desesperado y sin pistas. Tras dieciocho ataques a mujeres de la ciudad, el maníaco sigue suelto ante la impotencia de la policía. Tras un nuevo ataque durante una exhibición de productos de jardinería, cree haber encontrado un sospechoso: Loris, un ladrón de poca monta perseguido por su casero y maltratado por sus vecinos.
Dead Tired
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 fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
My Wife's Girlfriends
Marguerite
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
Ville à vendre
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 solve the mystery.
Les secrets professionnels du Docteur Apfelglück
Jacqueline Vidart
El Dr. Apfelglück, eminente psiquiatra, cuenta algunos de los casos más graves que le han ido llegando.
Cross My Heart
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 him begin to prod, they discover that Martin’s single mother has died. Fearful that he will be sent away from home now that he has no parents, Martin looks to his friends for help. With Jerome leading the charge to save Martin from the orphanage, the first thing they decide to do is dispose of the mother’s body.
Un jeu d'enfant
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, where he discovers a more rigorous world.
L'excès Contraire
Hanaë
Unos días conmigo
Madame Fonfrin
Durante una visita de inspección a Limoges, el presidente de una cadena de supermercados se enamora perdidamente de una joven que trabaja como doncella en casa de uno de los directores de sus tiendas. En un arrebato de pasión, le pide que se vaya a vivir con él y, a cambio, le ofrece todo aquello que nunca imaginó tener.
L'oeil au beur(re) noir
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 stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian.
Keep Your Right Up
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, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Agent Trouble
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 bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
Kamikaze
Laure
La muerte violenta e inexplicable ante las cámaras de lo más famosos presentadores de televisión, pone jaque al gobierno y a las fuerzas de policía del país. Tras estos crímenes se oculta un asesino invisible, una mente genial, pervertida por la sed de venganza. Un nuevo método para matar que pone en peligro la seguridad del estado mismo.
The Joint Brothers
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 also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
I Hate Actors
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 put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.
Death on a Rainy Sunday
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 architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. They start to work for Briand and his wife Elaine as a gardener and a babysitter with the sole objective of wreaking havoc on their lives and avenging Bronsky's disabilities.
Le débutant
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. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.
Billy Ze Kick
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 in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick."
Marriage of the Century
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 from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
Tres solteros y un biberón
Ms. Rapons
Tres hombres solteros comparten un piso. De pronto les llega un paquete. Es una niña casi recién nacida, hija al parecer de uno de ellos, a la que tendrán que atender, a pesar de que ninguno de los tres tiene ni la más remota idea de cómo cuidar a un bebé...
La cita
Gertrude
Nina, joven de provincias que descubre la capital, conoce gente por casualidad y realiza su aprendizaje del teatro y el amor. Paulot en primer lugar, la tranquilizadora figura de un hombre corriente, sólida como una roca. Luego Quentin, un actor caído atormentado por un drama pasado, violento como un rayo. Finalmente, Scrutzler, un director inflexible y exhausto que elige a Nina, la arroja al escenario. Una revelación nace a través de estos tres encuentros. Pero es consigo misma que Nina tiene una cita.
All Mixed Up
L'infirmière du Docteur Belin
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
The Chicks
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 relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
Palabras y música
Florence
Cuando Peter, el marido americano de Margaux, deja Paris y vuelve a su tierra, ella se descubre madre soltera de dos adolescentes. También le dan una misión en su trabajo: debe descubrir y promocionar la carrera de nuevos cantantes de rock. Descubre un dúo, Michel y Jeremy, y lanza su carrera. Jeremy se siente atraído por Margaux, ciertamente mayor que él, con quien se siente reafirmado. Confraterniza con sus hijos y descuida a Michel y la música. Los chicos se van a Nueva York a ver a su padre liberando a Margaux para responder a Jeremy. ¿Tiene futuro esa relación?, ¿Qué pasa con el dúo musical?
La Smala
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 help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...
The Leopard
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, reluctantly helped by an old maid.
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Bernadette Bourdelle
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 they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
My Other Husband
Solange
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
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 nosotras
L'aboyeuse
Narra una rara amistad entre dos mujeres casadas que intentan conseguir el coraje necesario para desafiar las reglas sociales de su tiempo, a fin de escapar de sus desconcertantes vidas...
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
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 any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.
Hôtel des Amériques
Jacqueline
En Biarritz, Hélène atropella con su coche a Gilles. Vive abstraída y sumida en una gran depresión tras la muerte de su amante, un brillante y prometedor arquitecto. Tras el accidente, Hélène y Gilles, dos seres solitarios, se hacen amigos, pero él se enamora de Hélène, a pesar de que es consciente de que que una mujer como ella no se puede interesar por un hombre de clase más baja y sin grandes aspiraciones. (FILMAFFINITY)
Men Prefer Fat Girls
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.
Pourquoi pas nous ?
Jacqueline Puiset
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
Is This Reasonable?
Mme Lavanant, la restauratrice (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, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
La fiesta
Vanessa
Vic tiene 13 años y es nueva en el instituto, pero pronto se hace amiga de Penélope. Las dos están ansiosas por encontrar un chico del que enamorarse; el problema es que los padres de Vic no la dejan todavía ir a fiestas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Inspector Blunder
Marie-Anne Prossant
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 TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Umbrella Coup
Mireille
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. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
The Horse of Pride
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 of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.
The Other One's Mug
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 criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
Los bronceados hacen ski
Christiane
Secuela de "Les bronzés", también dirigida por Patrice Leconte. Ahora, tras la experiencia mediterránea estival de la primera entrega, el grupo de amigos se embarca en la aventura de los deportes de invierno. Por supuesto continuarán, al mismo tiempo, los problemas sentimentales y personales de los distintos componentes.
Courage fuyons
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. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
Un pequeño romance
Mme. Cormier
Daniel es hijo de un taxista de París, y el padre de Lauren es el jefe de una multinacional americana en Europa. Ambos adolescentes acaban de descubrir el amor. Julius St. Toran, un viejo diplomático inglés, les cuenta a los chicos que para que el amor sea eterno es preciso ratificarlo con un beso bajo el veneciano Puente de los Suspiros.
Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
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 of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...
Los bronceados
Writer
Un grupo de turistas llega a Costa de Marfil con la intención de pasárselo lo mejor posible y olvidar todos sus problemas.
Los bronceados
Christiane
Un grupo de turistas llega a Costa de Marfil con la intención de pasárselo lo mejor posible y olvidar todos sus problemas.
Take It from the Top
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 decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
Una mariposa sobre la espalda
la jeune femme
Roland, un marino que ha hecho escala en Barcelona para reunirse con su mujer, descubre un cadáver en la habitación contigua del hotel donde se hospeda. De repente, es encerrado sin saber por qué en una clínica privada y un médico le reclama una misteriosa maleta. Mientras, su vecino de habitación le habla de una mariposa posada sobre su espalda. Roland escapa y busca a la policía. Cuando llegan a la clínica, el lugar está vacío pero encuentran un cadáver. Lo acusan del asesinato, pero él sabe que no lo ha cometido.
Degustación casera
Christiane
Cortometraje de Sophie Tatischeff ambientado en la pequeña ciudad de Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, tres décadas después de su uso en la película de su padre 'Jour de Fête'. La conversación de un típico bar de pueblo se trasplanta a una pastelería con tartaletas particularmente tentadoras: "No hay motivo para que no comamos otro", dice un cliente; "No más para mí gracias", dice otro. "¿Un bizcocho a esta hora del día?", pregunta la mujer detrás del mostrador.
Peppermint Soda
The Math Teacher
En el otoño de 1963, Ana se está convirtiendo en un adolescente. Vive en París con su madre y su hermana mayor, Frédérique. Acaban de regresar del verano en la playa con su padre. La escuela comienza. Para Frédérique es el año de su primer amor serio, su primera incursión en la política, su primer beso con un hombre mayor, su primer amigo que se va, y su primera derrota de la amistad por encima de valores. Para Ana, que mira a su hermana de cerca, es el año de su primer periodo y de aprender a hablar con los chicos, de tratar con los profesores injustos, y de arreglar las cosas con su madre después de meterse en problemas
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
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 court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
As the Moon
Yvette
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.
Marie, the Doll
Aunt 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 store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
Silence... We're Shooting
The porn actress who doesn't take the pill
Femmes Fatales
The myopic woman
Jean-Pierre Marielle y Jean Rochefort interpretan a un ginecólogo y un gigoló agotados de cualquier sugerencia sexual femenina. El doctor no soporta ver una vagina más, mientras que el gigoló está exhausto de la exigencia sexual de las mujeres. Ambos deciden refugiarse en una villa con la única compañía de los sacerdotes del lugar, pero el casto encierro se torna en pesadilla al presentarse un regimiento de mujeres armadas.
Zafarrancho en el circo
(uncredited)
Un público heterogéneo toma asiento en el circo, impaciente por que empiece el espectáculo. "Monsieur Loyal" da la bienvenida a todos. Acróbatas, payasos y cantantes salen para entretener al público. Sin embargo, el espectáculo acaba demasiado pronto, y dos niños pequeños se dedican a explorar detrás del escenario.
The Big Store
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 store taking over the business of smaller stores.