Acting
Alex Descas
Born 1958-01-01
France
Department: 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.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Alex Descas
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Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
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Chocolat
2016
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The Limits of Control
2009
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Irma Vep
1996
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Trouble Every Day
2001
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Let the Sunshine In
2017
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The Dope
2003
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Irma Vep
2022
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Boarding Gate
2007
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Volontaire
2018
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (85 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | You+Me – Against the World | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | The Failing | L'Abbé Gomis | Movie | 2026 |
 | Adam's Sake | Naïm | Movie | 2025 |
 | Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants | Narrator (Voice) | Movie | 2024 |
 | Which Way Africa? | Narrator | Movie | 2024 |
 | Brûlé neige | Henri | Movie | 2022 |
 | Irma Vep | Gregory Desormeaux | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté | (Voix Off) | Movie | 2021 |
 | Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2021 |
 | Exterminate All the Brutes | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Sing Me Back Home | Juan | Movie | 2019 |
 | Maya | Frédéric | Movie | 2018 |
 | Volontaire | Albertini | Movie | 2018 |
 | Iskander | Oscar | TV Series | 2018 |
 | Let the Sunshine In | End Man | Movie | 2017 |
 | Gone | Claude Vannier | Movie | 2017 |
| Metropole | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2017 | |
 | Chocolat | Victor | Movie | 2016 |
 | Nina | Mathias Savignon | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Rouge | Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts» | Movie | 2015 |
 | Portrait of the Artist | Scottie | Movie | 2015 |
| Madeleine d'entre les Morts | The man | Movie | 2014 | |
 | Voilà l'enchaînement | Lui | Movie | 2014 |
 | Murder in Pacot | L'homme | Movie | 2014 |
 | Un enfant en danger | André | Movie | 2013 |
 | Bastards | Dr. Béthanie | Movie | 2013 |
 | Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté | Aimé Césaire | Movie | 2013 |
 | Rapt | Maître Walser | Movie | 2009 |
 | Persecution | Thomas | Movie | 2009 |
 | The Limits of Control | Creole | Movie | 2009 |
 | 35 Shots of Rum | Lionel | Movie | 2009 |
 | Négropolitain | Alain | Movie | 2008 |
 | We Don't Choose Our Parents | Le juge Mauvoisin | Movie | 2008 |
| Déjà vu | Kiff | Movie | 2007 | |
 | Boarding Gate | Andrew | Movie | 2007 |
 | Un flic | Schneider | TV Series | 2007 |
 | Tag! | Nkruma | Movie | 2007 |
 | Elf, Kings of Oil | Pascal Lissouba | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Elf Case | Pascal Lissouba | Movie | 2007 |
 | L'île des esclaves | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2006 |
 | A Perfect Couple | Patrick | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Intruder | Le prêtre | Movie | 2005 |
 | In Your Dreams | Mojo | Movie | 2005 |
 | The United States of Albert | Nolton Barnett | Movie | 2005 |
 | Nèg maron | Siwo | Movie | 2005 |
 | The Man Who Came From Elsewhere | Pierre Adélaïde | Movie | 2004 |
 | Nord-plage | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2004 |
 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Alex (segment "No Problem") | Movie | 2004 |
 | La nuit sera longue | François | Movie | 2003 |
 | Tiresia | Marignac | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Dope | Shaft | Movie | 2003 |
 | Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | (segment "Vers Nancy") | Movie | 2002 |
 | Vers Nancy | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2002 |
 | La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan | (Segment 'Never Twice') | Movie | 2002 |
 | Trouble Every Day | Dr. Léo | Movie | 2001 |
 | Lumumba | Joseph Mobutu | Movie | 2000 |
 | Last Harem | Nadir | Movie | 1999 |
 | Late August, Early September | Jérémie | Movie | 1999 |
 | Le serpent a mangé la grenouille | Yves Le Guen | Movie | 1998 |
 | In a Memory of a Film Gone By | himself | Movie | 1998 |
 | The House | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1997 |
 | Nenette and Boni | Gynecologist | Movie | 1997 |
 | My Family's Honour | Malcolm | Movie | 1997 |
 | Africa Dreaming | Michael | Movie | 1997 |
 | So Be It | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1997 |
 | Irma Vep | Desormeaux | Movie | 1996 |
 | Clubbed to Death | Mambo | Movie | 1996 |
 | Un si joli bouquet | Barthélémy | Movie | 1995 |
 | Le Banquet | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Great White of Lambarene | Koumba | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Heart's Cry | Ibrahim Sow | Movie | 1995 |
 | Duo | Man | Movie | 1995 |
 | Never Twice | Never Twice | Movie | 1995 |
 | The Masturbators | Narrator | Movie | 1995 |
 | I Can't Sleep | Théo | Movie | 1994 |
 | Les Cordier, juge et flic | Sayyid | TV Series | 1994 |
 | The Absence | Soldier | Movie | 1993 |
 | Lest We Forget | Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA") | Movie | 1991 |
 | No Fear, No Die | Jocelyn | Movie | 1990 |
 | How Good the Whites Are | Le travailleur chez Renault | Movie | 1988 |
 | Taxi Boy | Pascal | Movie | 1986 |
 | Urgence | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1985 |
 | The Syringe | Le chef des 'Blackies' | Movie | 1984 |
| The Arrival | Self / Appearance | Movie | — | |
| An Odd Enchantment | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |