Alex Descas
January 1, 1958 (67 years old) in France
Alex Descas (born January 1, 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in films by Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch. In France, he is also known for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic. He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in more than half of her theatrical feature-length films, including No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, I Can't Sleep, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards, as well as Ten Minutes Older: The Cello. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Adam's Sake as Naïm
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1985 · Urgence as
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- Future · The Arrival as
- 2026 · The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
- 2024 · Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
- 2024 · Which Way Africa? as Narrator
- 2022 · Brûlé neige as Henri
- 2021 · Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
- 2021 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2015 · Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- 2014 · Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
- 2014 · Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
- 2014 · Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- 2013 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2013 · Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2007 · Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- 2007 · The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- 2006 · L'île des esclaves as
- 2005 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 2002 · Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 1999 · Late August, Early September as Jérémie
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- 1998 · In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn