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 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2013 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2007 · The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 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
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Le Banquet as
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 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
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- Future · The Arrival 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 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 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 · Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- 2006 · L'île des esclaves as
- 2006 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 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 · 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 · 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 Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- Future · An Odd Enchantment as
- 1985 · Urgence as