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
2026
- The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
2025
- Adam's Sake as Naïm
2024
- Which Way Africa? as Narrator
- Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
2022
- Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
- Brûlé neige as Henri
2021
2019
- Sing Me Back Home as Juan
2018
- Iskander as Oscar
- Volontaire as Albertini
- Maya as Frédéric
2017
- Let the Sunshine In as End Man
- Gone as Claude Vannier
- Metropole
2016
- Chocolat as Victor
2015
- Nina as Mathias Savignon
- Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
- Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2014
- Murder in Pacot as L'homme
- Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
- Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
2013
- Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
- Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
- Un enfant en danger as André
2009
- The Limits of Control as Creole
- 35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
- Rapt as Maître Walser
- Persecution as Thomas
2008
- Négropolitain as Alain
- We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
2007
- Déjà vu as Kiff
- Un flic as Schneider
- Boarding Gate as Andrew
- Tag! as Nkruma
- The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
- Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
2006
- A Perfect Couple as Patrick
- L'île des esclaves
2005
- Nèg maron as Siwo
- In Your Dreams as Mojo
- The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
- The Intruder as Le prêtre
2004
- Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- Nord-plage
- The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
2003
- Tiresia as Marignac
- The Dope as Shaft
- 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
- Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
- In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
1997
- The House
- Africa Dreaming as Michael
- Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
- So Be It
- My Family's Honour as Malcolm
1996
- Irma Vep as Desormeaux
- Clubbed to Death as Mambo
1995
- Duo as Man
- Never Twice as Never Twice
- The Masturbators as Narrator
- The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
- The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
- 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
- Lest We Forget as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
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'