Alex Descas
Biography
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
Nina
Irma Vep
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Exterminate All the Brutes
Coffee and Cigarettes
Irma Vep
Trouble Every Day
The Limits of Control
All Movies (77)
- The Failing2026 · as L'Abbé Gomis
- Adam's Sake2025 · as Naïm
- Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants2024 · as Narrator (Voice)
- Which Way Africa?2024 · as Narrator
- Brûlé neige2022 · as Henri
- Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté2021 · as (Voix Off)
- Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard2021
- Sing Me Back Home2019 · as Juan
- Maya2018 · as Frédéric
- Volontaire2018 · as Albertini
- Let the Sunshine In2017 · as End Man
- Gone2017 · as Claude Vannier
- Metropole2017
- Chocolat2016 · as Victor
- Rouge2015 · as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- Portrait of the Artist2015 · as Scottie
- Madeleine d'entre les Morts2014 · as The man
- Voilà l'enchaînement2014 · as Lui
- Murder in Pacot2014 · as L'homme
- Un enfant en danger2013 · as André
- Bastards2013 · as Dr. Béthanie
- Césaire, le prix de la liberté2013 · as Aimé Césaire
- Rapt2009 · as Maître Walser
- Persecution2009 · as Thomas
- The Limits of Control2009 · as Creole
- 35 Shots of Rum2009 · as Lionel
- Négropolitain2008 · as Alain
- We Don't Choose Our Parents2008 · as Le juge Mauvoisin
- Déjà vu2007 · as Kiff
- Boarding Gate2007 · as Andrew
- Tag!2007 · as Nkruma
- Elf, Kings of Oil2007 · as Pascal Lissouba
- The Elf Case2007 · as Pascal Lissouba
- L'île des esclaves2006
- A Perfect Couple2006 · as Patrick
- The Intruder2005 · as Le prêtre
- In Your Dreams2005 · as Mojo
- The United States of Albert2005 · as Nolton Barnett
- Nèg maron2005 · as Siwo
- The Man Who Came From Elsewhere2004 · as Pierre Adélaïde
- Nord-plage2004
- Coffee and Cigarettes2004 · as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- La nuit sera longue2003 · as François
- Tiresia2003 · as Marignac
- The Dope2003 · as Shaft
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello2002 · as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- Vers Nancy2002
- La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan2002 · as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- Trouble Every Day2001 · as Dr. Léo
- Lumumba2000 · as Joseph Mobutu
- Last Harem1999 · as Nadir
- Late August, Early September1999 · as Jérémie
- Le serpent a mangé la grenouille1998 · as Yves Le Guen
- In a Memory of a Film Gone By1998 · as himself
- The House1997
- Nenette and Boni1997 · as Gynecologist
- My Family's Honour1997 · as Malcolm
- Africa Dreaming1997 · as Michael
- So Be It1997
- Irma Vep1996 · as Desormeaux
- Clubbed to Death1996 · as Mambo
- Un si joli bouquet1995 · as Barthélémy
- The Great White of Lambarene1995 · as Koumba
- The Heart's Cry1995 · as Ibrahim Sow
- Duo1995 · as Man
- Never Twice1995 · as Never Twice
- The Masturbators1995 · as Narrator
- I Can't Sleep1994 · as Théo
- The Absence1993 · as Soldier
- Lest We Forget1991 · as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
- No Fear, No Die1990 · as Jocelyn
- How Good the Whites Are1988 · as Le travailleur chez Renault
- Taxi Boy1986 · as Pascal
- Urgence1985
- The Syringe1984 · as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- The Arrival—
- An Odd Enchantment—
All TV Shows (6)
- Irma Vep2022 · as Gregory Desormeaux
- Exterminate All the Brutes2021
- Iskander2018 · as Oscar
- Nina2015 · as Mathias Savignon
- Un flic2007 · as Schneider
- Les Cordier, juge et flic1994 · as Sayyid