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
- 2022 · Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- 2021 · Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard as
- 2018 · Maya as Frédéric
- 2018 · Volontaire as Albertini
- 2017 · Gone as Claude Vannier
- 2017 · Metropole as
- 2016 · Chocolat as Victor
- 2015 · Nina as Mathias Savignon
- 2015 · Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- 2015 · Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- 2013 · Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- 2009 · Rapt as Maître Walser
- 2009 · Persecution as Thomas
- 2009 · The Limits of Control as Creole
- 2009 · 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- 2008 · We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- 2007 · Déjà vu as Kiff
- 2007 · Boarding Gate as Andrew
- 2005 · The Intruder as Le prêtre
- 2005 · The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- 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
- 1997 · The House as
- 1997 · Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- 1997 · My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- 1996 · Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- 1995 · Duo as Man
- 1994 · I Can't Sleep as Théo
- 1994 · Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- 1993 · The Absence as Soldier
- 1991 · Against Oblivion as Self
- 1986 · Taxi Boy as Pascal
- 1985 · Urgence as
- 1984 · The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- Future · The Arrival as
- 2025 · 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 · Exterminate All the Brutes as
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as Juan
- 2018 · Iskander as Oscar
- 2017 · Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- 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
- 2008 · Négropolitain as Alain
- 2007 · Un flic as Schneider
- 2007 · Tag! as Nkruma
- 2007 · The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- 2007 · Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- 2006 · L'île des esclaves as
- 2005 · A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- 2005 · In Your Dreams as Mojo
- 2005 · Nèg maron as Siwo
- 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
- 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 · Africa Dreaming as Michael
- 1997 · So Be It as
- 1996 · Clubbed to Death as Mambo
- 1995 · Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
- 1995 · The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 1995 · The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- 1995 · Never Twice as Never Twice
- 1995 · The Masturbators as Narrator
- 1990 · No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
- 1988 · How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault