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 · Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2013 · Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 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
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2003 · The Dope as Shaft
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1985 · Urgence as
- 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 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 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
- 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 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 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 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'