Alex Descas
Born: 1958-01-01 in France
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Adam's Sake as Naïm
- The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
2024
- Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
- Which Way Africa? as Narrator
2022
- Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- Brûlé neige as Henri
2021
2019
- Sing Me Back Home as Juan
2018
- Maya as Frédéric
- Volontaire as Albertini
- Iskander as Oscar
2017
- Gone as Claude Vannier
- Metropole
- Let the Sunshine In as End Man
2016
- Chocolat as Victor
2015
- Nina as Mathias Savignon
- Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
2014
- Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
- Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
2013
- Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- Un enfant en danger as André
2009
- 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- Persecution as Thomas
- Rapt as Maître Walser
- The Limits of Control as Creole
2008
- We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
- Négropolitain as Alain
2007
- Boarding Gate as Andrew
- Déjà vu as Kiff
- The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- Un flic as Schneider
- Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
- Tag! as Nkruma
2006
2005
- The Intruder as Le prêtre
- The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- In Your Dreams as Mojo
- Nèg maron as Siwo
2004
- Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
- Nord-plage
2003
- The Dope as Shaft
- Tiresia as Marignac
- La nuit sera longue as François
2002
- Vers Nancy
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
2001
- Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
2000
- Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
1999
- Last Harem as Nadir
- Late August, Early September as Jérémie
1998
- In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
- Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
1997
- The House
- Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- My Family's Honour as Malcolm
- Africa Dreaming as Michael
- So Be It
1996
- Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- Clubbed to Death as Mambo
1995
- Duo as Man
- The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- Never Twice as Never Twice
- The Masturbators as Narrator
- The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
1994
- Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
- I Can't Sleep as Théo
1993
- The Absence as Soldier
1991
- Against Oblivion as Self
1990
- No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
1988
- How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
1986
- Taxi Boy as Pascal
1985
1984
- The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'