Alex Descas

Actor Jan 1 (age 68) France 1984–2026 (42 year career)

5.8 avg rating

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…

Known For

Film

Coffee and Cigarettes

Alex (segment "No Problem")

Film

Chocolat

Victor

Film

Irma Vep

Desormeaux

Film

The Limits of Control

Creole

Film

Irma Vep

Gregory Desormeaux

Film

Trouble Every Day

Dr. Léo

Film

35 Shots of Rum

Lionel

Film

Let the Sunshine In

End Man

Filmography

Acting (82)

Movies (76)

The Failing

2026

as L'Abbé Gomis

Adam's Sake

2025

as Naïm

6.7

Which Way Africa?

2024

as Narrator

Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants

2024

as Narrator (Voice)

7.3

Brûlé neige

2022

as Henri

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté

2021

as (Voix Off)

10.0

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Sing Me Back Home

as Juan

Volontaire

as Albertini

Maya

as Frédéric

Let the Sunshine In

as End Man

Metropole

Gone

as Claude Vannier

Chocolat

as Victor

Rouge

as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»

6.5

Portrait of the Artist

as Scottie

Murder in Pacot

as L'homme

Madeleine d'entre les Morts

2014

as The man

Voilà l'enchaînement

2014

as Lui

5.8

Césaire, le prix de la liberté

2013

as Aimé Césaire

Bastards

as Dr. Béthanie

Un enfant en danger

as André

The Limits of Control

as Creole

Rapt

as Maître Walser

35 Shots of Rum

as Lionel

Persecution

as Thomas

Négropolitain

as Alain

We Don't Choose Our Parents

2008

as Le juge Mauvoisin

Boarding Gate

2007

as Andrew

5.0

Déjà vu

2007

as Kiff

Tag!

2007

as Nkruma

5.5

Elf, Kings of Oil

2007

as Pascal Lissouba

The Elf Case

as Pascal Lissouba

A Perfect Couple

as Patrick

L'île des esclaves

The Intruder

as Le prêtre

Nèg maron

as Siwo

In Your Dreams

as Mojo

The United States of Albert

2005

as Nolton Barnett

3.0

Coffee and Cigarettes

2004

as Alex (segment "No Problem")

6.9

Nord-plage

2004

The Man Who Came From Elsewhere

as Pierre Adélaïde

Tiresia

as Marignac

The Dope

as Shaft

La nuit sera longue

as François

Vers Nancy

2002

8.0

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

2002

as (segment "Vers Nancy")

6.6

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

2002

as (Segment 'Never Twice')

Trouble Every Day

as Dr. Léo

Lumumba

as Joseph Mobutu

Late August, Early September

as Jérémie

Last Harem

as Nadir

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

1998

as Yves Le Guen

In a Memory of a Film Gone By

1998

as himself

The House

1997

7.0

Africa Dreaming

1997

as Michael

My Family's Honour

1997

as Malcolm

Nenette and Boni

as Gynecologist

So Be It

Irma Vep

as Desormeaux

Clubbed to Death

as Mambo

The Great White of Lambarene

1995

as Koumba

5.0

Un si joli bouquet

1995

as Barthélémy

Duo

1995

as Man

The Heart's Cry

1995

as Ibrahim Sow

5.4

Never Twice

1995

as Never Twice

The Masturbators

as Narrator

I Can't Sleep

as Théo

The Absence

as Soldier

Against Oblivion

as Self

No Fear, No Die

as Jocelyn

How Good the Whites Are

1988

as Le travailleur chez Renault

Taxi Boy

as Pascal

Urgence

The Syringe

as Le chef des 'Blackies'

4.8

The Arrival

Television (6)

Irma Vep

2022

as Gregory Desormeaux

6.5

Exterminate All the Brutes

Iskander

as Oscar

Nina

as Mathias Savignon

Un flic

as Schneider

Les Cordier, juge et flic

1994

as Sayyid

5.0