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
- 2026 · You+Me - Against the World as Léonard Abrams
- 2026 · The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
- 2025 · Adam's Sake as Naïm
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 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
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 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
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2002 · Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- Future · The Arrival as
- 1999 · Late August, Early September as Jérémie
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1995 · Le Banquet as
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1991 · Lest We Forget as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- Future · An Odd Enchantment as
- 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
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2015 · Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 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 · Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 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 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- 1998 · In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 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 Masturbators as Narrator
- 1985 · Urgence as