Alex Descas

Jan 01, 1958 (67 years old) in France

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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Known For

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Nina

Mathias Savignon

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Les Cordier, juge et flic

Sayyid

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Iskander

Oscar

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Irma Vep

Gregory Desormeaux

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Exterminate All the Brutes

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Un flic

Schneider

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Coffee and Cigarettes

Alex (segment "No Problem")

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Let the Sunshine In

End Man

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Trouble Every Day

Dr. Léo

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Bastards

Dr. Béthanie

Credits

Adam's Sake 2025

Naïm

★ NR
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants 2024

Narrator (Voice)

★ 7
Which Way Africa? 2024

Narrator

★ NR
Brûlé neige 2022

Henri

★ NR
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté 2021

(Voix Off)

★ 10
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 2021

★ NR
Exterminate All the Brutes 2021

★ 7.4
Maya 2018

Frédéric

★ 5.4
Volontaire 2018

Albertini

★ 5.8
Iskander 2018

Oscar

★ 5.2
Let the Sunshine In 2017

End Man

★ 5.2
Gone 2017

Claude Vannier

★ 5
Metropole 2017

★ NR
Chocolat 2016

Victor

★ 6.8
Nina 2015

Mathias Savignon

★ 5.8
Rouge 2015

Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»

★ 6.5
Portrait of the Artist 2015

Scottie

★ 5.7
Madeleine d’entre les Morts 2014

★ NR
Voilà l'enchaînement 2014

Lui

★ 5.8
Murder in Pacot 2014

L'homme

★ 4.2
Un enfant en danger 2013

André

★ 7
Bastards 2013

Dr. Béthanie

★ 5.8
Césaire, le prix de la liberté 2013

Aimé Césaire

★ NR
Rapt 2009

Maître Walser

★ 6.1
Persecution 2009

Thomas

★ 4.5
The Limits of Control 2009

Creole

★ 6
35 Shots of Rum 2009

Lionel

★ 6.8
Négropolitain 2008

Alain

★ NR
We Don't Choose Our Parents 2008

Le juge Mauvoisin

★ NR
Déjà vu 2007

Kiff

★ NR
Boarding Gate 2007

Andrew

★ 5
Un flic 2007

Schneider

★ 7.2
Tag! 2007

Nkruma

★ 5.5
Elf, Kings of Oil 2007

Pascal Lissouba

★ NR
The Elf Case 2007

Pascal Lissouba

★ 5
L'île des esclaves 2006

★ NR
A Perfect Couple 2005

Patrick

★ 5.2
The Intruder 2005

Le prêtre

★ 6.6
In Your Dreams 2005

Mojo

★ 5.5
The United States of Albert 2005

Nolton Barnett

★ 3.5
Nèg maron 2005

Siwo

★ 6.1
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere 2004

Pierre Adélaïde

★ 6
Nord-plage 2004

★ NR
Coffee and Cigarettes 2004

Alex (segment "No Problem")

★ 6.9
La nuit sera longue 2003

François

★ NR
Tiresia 2003

Marignac

★ 5.9
The Dope 2003

Shaft

★ 4.6
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello 2002

(segment "Vers Nancy")

★ 6.6
Vers Nancy 2002

★ 8
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan 2002

(Segment 'Never Twice')

★ NR
Trouble Every Day 2001

Dr. Léo

★ 5.8
Lumumba 2000

Joseph Mobutu

★ 6.8
Last Harem 1999

Nadir

★ 5.5
Late August, Early September 1999

Jérémie

★ 5.9
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille 1998

★ NR
In a Memory of a Film Gone By 1998

himself

★ NR
The House 1997

★ 7.2
Nenette and Boni 1997

Gynecologist

★ 6.5
My Family's Honour 1997

Malcolm

★ NR
Africa Dreaming 1997

Michael

★ NR
So Be It 1997

★ NR
Irma Vep 1996

Desormeaux

★ 6.7
Clubbed to Death 1996

Mambo

★ 6.2
Un si joli bouquet 1995

Barthélémy

★ NR
The Great White of Lambarene 1995

Koumba

★ 5
The Heart's Cry 1995

Ibrahim Sow

★ 5.4
Duo 1995

Man

★ NR
Never Twice 1995

Never Twice

★ NR
The Masturbators 1995

Narrator

★ 1
I Can't Sleep 1994

Théo

★ 6.4
Les Cordier, juge et flic 1994

Sayyid

★ 5.4
The Absence 1993

Soldier

★ 5.3
Against Oblivion 1991

Self

★ 6.5
No Fear, No Die 1990

Jocelyn

★ 6
How Good the Whites Are 1988

Le travailleur chez Renault

★ 6
Taxi Boy 1986

Pascal

★ 3
Urgence 1985

★ 4.8
The Syringe 1984

Le chef des 'Blackies'

★ 4.5