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.
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Acting History
2026
The Failing as L'Abbé Gomis
2025Adam's Sake as Naïm
2024Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)
2024Which Way Africa? as Narrator
2022Brûlé neige as Henri
2022Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
2021Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
2021Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021Exterminate All the Brutes
2019Sing Me Back Home as Juan
2018Maya as Frédéric
2018Volontaire as Albertini
2018Iskander as Oscar
2017Let the Sunshine In as End Man
2017Gone as Claude Vannier
2017Metropole
2016Chocolat as Victor
2015Nina as Mathias Savignon
2015Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
2014Madeleine d'entre les Morts as The man
2014Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
2014Murder in Pacot as L'homme
2013Un enfant en danger as André
2013Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
2013Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
2009Rapt as Maître Walser
2009Persecution as Thomas
2009The Limits of Control as Creole
200935 Shots of Rum as Lionel
2008Négropolitain as Alain
2008We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
2007Déjà vu as Kiff
2007Boarding Gate as Andrew
2007Un flic as Schneider
2007Tag! as Nkruma
2007The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
2007Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
2006L'île des esclaves
2005A Perfect Couple as Patrick
2005The Intruder as Le prêtre
2005In Your Dreams as Mojo
2005The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
2005Nèg maron as Siwo
2004The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde
2004Nord-plage
2004Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
2003La nuit sera longue as François
2003Tiresia as Marignac
2003The Dope as Shaft
2002Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002Vers Nancy
2002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
2001Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
2000Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
1999Last Harem as Nadir
1999Late August, Early September as Jérémie
1998Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as Yves Le Guen
1998In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
1997The House
1997Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
1997My Family's Honour as Malcolm
1997So Be It
1997Africa Dreaming as Michael
1996Irma Vep as Desormeaux
1996Clubbed to Death as Mambo
1995Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
1995The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
1995The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
1995Duo as Man
1995The Masturbators as Narrator
1995Never Twice as Never Twice
1994I Can't Sleep as Théo
1994Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
1993The Absence as Soldier
1991Against Oblivion as Self
1990No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn
1988How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault
1986Taxi Boy as Pascal
1985Urgence
1984The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
—The Arrival