Dominique Lavanant
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.
The Party
as Vanessa, François' ex-mistressA thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at...
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French Fried Vacation 2
as ChristianeIn this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end...
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The Monster
as Jolanda TacconeA vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter...
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Nicholas on Holiday
as 'Mémé'It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little...
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Rendez-vous
as GertrudeNina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she...
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Cookies
as Marie Pape, prostitute in Breton costumeHenri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work,...
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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
as Christiane WeissmullerAfter the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the...
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de MichelIt is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the...
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Paulette
as LuciennePaulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can...
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A Little Romance
as Mme. CormierIntellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On...
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Three Men and a Cradle
as Ms. RaponsThree young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many...
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Femmes Fatales
as The myopic womanTwo men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of...
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French Fried Vacation
as Christiane, the frustrated stuck oneHolidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their...
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The Big Store
as La jeune femme en panne de voitureFour guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood...
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Inspector Blunder
as Marie-Anne Prossant, journalistA detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a...
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Peppermint Soda
as The Math TeacherIn the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her...
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A Crime in Paradise
as Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienneIn the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other,...
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Entre Nous
as L'aboyeuseIn 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany....
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A Few Days with Me
as Madame FonfrinAfter being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a...
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Hotel America
as JacquelineHelene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a...
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Marie, the Doll
as Tante AliceMarie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act...
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Dead Tired
as Dominique LavanantStressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down,...
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Umbrella Coup
as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de GrégoireGrégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for...
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Paroles et musique
as FlorenceWhen Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds...
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Agathe Cléry
as Mimie, la mère d'AgatheAgathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist....
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
as La reine MadeleineWhilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their...
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The Joint Brothers
as Un flicAfter he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his...
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The Wedding Cake
as La mère de VincentThe wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the...
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The Other One's Mug
as la fille de la chambre verteMartial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a...
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
as La jeune femmeOn a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He...
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Agent Trouble
as KarenAmanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not...
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Parade
as (uncredited)For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself...
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Marriage of the Century
as Adrienne de la RoussettePrincess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has...
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My Other Husband
as SolangeA woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
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Courage fuyons
as MathildaAt forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day,...
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Men Prefer Fat Girls
as ArletteLydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just...
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
as Jacqueline VidartThis series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their...
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La Smala
as Pierrot-RitaWhen the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure...
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Sex, Lies and Surgery
as Mademoiselle PhillipsJohn - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at...
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Cross My Heart
as Claire's motherYoung Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he...
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Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
as Michèle, François' ex-wifeFrançois Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only...
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Is This Reasonable?
as Mrs. Lavanant, restaurateur (uncredited)A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will...
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Keep Your Right Up
as Admiral's WifeThis film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional...
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Desire
as HenrietteDésiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he...
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Kamikaze
as LaureA disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which...
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Death on a Rainy Sunday
as Hazel BronskyThriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a...
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All Mixed Up
as L'infirmière du Docteur BelinAfter the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
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The Leopard
as Pauline FitzgeraldA former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures...
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The Chicks
as EvelyneFocuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One...
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Ginette AlcazarAn official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by...
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
as MireilleBarely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the...
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House Specialty
as ChristianeSophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades...
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Billy Ze Kick
as Madame AchereBilly Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector...
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As the Moon
as YvetteNormandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating...
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Ville à vendre
as Eva MontierA man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He...
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Pourquoi pas nous ?
as Jacqueline PuisetA wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
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I Hate Actors
as Miss DavisA Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show...
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Madame Edouard
as RoseIn Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters…...
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Take It from the Top
as La voisineTired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her...
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Le Débutant
as Marguerite BalicourtThe journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the...
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
as YvetteThe story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest...
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L'Œil au beur(re) noir
as Simone PerronDenis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet...
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Rouges étaient les lilas
as La psyIn a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and...
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A Shadow of a Doubt
as Alexandrine's TeacherAline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family...
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Le Renard jaune
as ValérieCharles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the...
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The Horse of Pride
as Marie-Jeanne, la sage-femmeIn early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional...
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My Wife's Girlfriends
as MargueriteA man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
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Silence... We're Shooting
as The porn actress who doesn't take the pill
Un jeu d'enfant
as LéonieDuring the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers...
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
as SelfLes Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of...
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Ma sœur est un chic type
as Claude CharmièresPierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his...
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Midi Première
as SelfMidi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Palace
as Assistante du ministre du tourismeThe action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes...
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