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
- 2024 · Which Way Africa? as Narrator
- 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 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2014 · Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
- 2014 · Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2005 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- 1998 · In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
- 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)
- 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 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2014 · Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
- 2013 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2013 · Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 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 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 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
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 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
- 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
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal