Alex Descas

Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1958, France
Movies: 77

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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Best-Known Movies

6.9

Coffee and Cigarettes

2004

6.8

Chocolat

2016

6.0

The Limits of Control

2009

6.7

Irma Vep

1996

5.7

Trouble Every Day

2001

5.2

Let the Sunshine In

2017

4.6

The Dope

2003

5.0

Boarding Gate

2007

5.7

Volontaire

2018

5.7

Bastards

2013

Filmography

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

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