Alex Descas

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
January 1, 1958 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
France
Popular Genres
Drama Comedy Thriller
Career Span
1984 – Present

Alex Descas

42 nominations
73 credits

Alex Descas (born 1958) is a French actor known for his roles in Jim Jarmusch films and for his role as Schneider in the French TV series Un Flic.

He is a frequent collaborator of Claire Denis, appearing in her films No Fear, No Die, Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, 35 Shots of Rum and Bastards. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent.

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Personal Info

Born
Jan 1, 1958
From
France
Known For
Acting
Career
1984 – Present

Award Recognition

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42
Nominations

Complete Filmography

2025

Adam's Sake as Naïm

2024

Which Way Africa? as Narrator
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants as Narrator (Voice)

2022

Brûlé neige as Henri

2021

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

2018

Maya as Frédéric
Volontaire as Albertini

2017

Let the Sunshine In as End Man Award
Metropole
Gone as Claude Vannier

2016

Chocolat as Victor Award

2015

Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»

2014

Murder in Pacot as L'homme
Madeleine d’entre les Morts
Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui

2013

Bastards as Dr. Béthanie Award
Un enfant en danger as André
Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire

2009

The Limits of Control as Creole Award
35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
Persecution as Thomas Award
Rapt as Maître Walser

2008

We Don't Choose Our Parents as Le juge Mauvoisin
Négropolitain as Alain

2007

Boarding Gate as Andrew Award
Elf, Kings of Oil as Pascal Lissouba
The Elf Case as Pascal Lissouba
Tag! as Nkruma
Déjà vu as Kiff

2006

L'île des esclaves

2005

The Intruder as Le prêtre Award
In Your Dreams as Mojo Award
The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
Nèg maron as Siwo
A Perfect Couple as Patrick

2004

Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
Nord-plage
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere as Pierre Adélaïde

2003

The Dope as Shaft
Tiresia as Marignac
La nuit sera longue as François

2002

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy") Award
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as (Segment 'Never Twice')
Vers Nancy

2001

Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo Award

2000

Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu Award

1999

Last Harem as Nadir
Late August, Early September as Jérémie

1998

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself

1997

The House
Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
My Family's Honour as Malcolm
Africa Dreaming as Michael
So Be It

1996

Irma Vep as Desormeaux Award
Clubbed to Death as Mambo

1995

The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
Never Twice as Never Twice
Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
The Masturbators as Narrator
Duo as Man

1994

I Can't Sleep as Théo Award

1993

The Absence as Soldier

1991

Against Oblivion as Self

1990

No Fear, No Die as Jocelyn

1988

How Good the Whites Are as Le travailleur chez Renault

1986

Taxi Boy as Pascal

1985

Urgence

1984

The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'

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Coffee and Cigarettes
Trouble Every Day
Let the Sunshine In
The Limits of Control
Bastards
Boarding Gate
Chocolat
Lumumba
35 Shots of Rum
Irma Vep

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