Alex Descas
January 1, 1958 (67 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 · Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
- 2024 · Which Way Africa? as Narrator
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- 2021 · Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
- 2021 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- 2014 · Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
- 2014 · Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- 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
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2007 · The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 2004 · Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- 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')
- 2001 · Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
- 1999 · Late August, Early September as Jérémie
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- Future · The Arrival as
- 2025 · The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
- 2022 · Brûlé neige as Henri
- 2021 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2014 · Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2007 · Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- 2006 · L'île des esclaves as
- 2005 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 2004 · The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- 2004 · Nord-plage as
- 2003 · Tiresia as Marignac
- 2002 · Vers Nancy as
- 2000 · Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
- 1999 · Last Harem as Nadir
- 1998 · In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 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
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1985 · Urgence as
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'