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
- 2024 · Which Way Africa? as Narrator
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2013 · Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 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 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Le Banquet as
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 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 · The Arrival as
- 2006 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- Future · An Odd Enchantment as
- 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
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 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 · Child in Peril as André
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 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
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 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 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1991 · Lest We Forget as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1985 · Urgence as