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 · The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
- 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
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2013 · Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 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 · 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")
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 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
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 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
- 2025 · Adam's Sake as Naïm
- 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
- 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 · Un enfant en danger as André
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 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
- 2006 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · La nuit sera longue as François
- 2002 · La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 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 · 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
- 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
- Future · An Odd Enchantment as
- 1985 · Urgence as