Alex Descas
January 1, 1958 (68 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 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2014 · Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 2002 · Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1999 · Late August, Early September as Jérémie
- 1997 · The House as
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 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)
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 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
- 2013 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2013 · Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2007 · The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- 2007 · Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- 2006 · L'île des esclaves as
- 2006 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- 1998 · In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault