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 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2006 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 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
- 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 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 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
- 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)
- 2021 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 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
- 2014 · Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- 2013 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2013 · Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 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 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 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
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- Future · An Odd Enchantment as
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1985 · Urgence as