Alex Descas
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.
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As actor 84
Déjà vu
2007
Nina
2015
Les Cordier, juge et flic
1994
Irma Vep
2022
The Failing
2026
Nèg maron
2005
Le Banquet
1995
The Syringe
1984
Iskander
2018
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
Un flic
2007
The Limits of Control
2009
The House
1997
Irma Vep
1996
How Good the Whites Are
1988
The Arrival
Chocolat
2016
The Absence
1993
Exterminate All the Brutes
2021
Last Harem
1999
Boarding Gate
2007
Bastards
2013
Let the Sunshine In
2017
Duo
1995
Trouble Every Day
2001
Africa Dreaming
1997
Tiresia
2003
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002
Never Twice
1995
Volontaire
2018
Nord-plage
2004
Nenette and Boni
1997
Taxi Boy
1986
Gone
2017
Tag!
2007
The Intruder
2005
My Family's Honour
1997
35 Shots of Rum
2009
Adam's Sake
2025
The Heart's Cry
1995
Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté
2013
Metropole
2017
A Perfect Couple
2006
Lest We Forget
1991
No Fear, No Die
1990
Vers Nancy
2002
An Odd Enchantment
Clubbed to Death
1996
The Dope
2003
Rapt
2009
Maya
2018
In Your Dreams
2005
Late August, Early September
1999
The Masturbators
1995
Urgence
1985
I Can't Sleep
1994
The United States of Albert
2005
Lumumba
2000
Voilà l'enchaînement
2014
The Elf Case
2007
Murder in Pacot
2014
Sing Me Back Home
2019
Persecution
2009
Un enfant en danger
2013
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002
Rouge
2015
Portrait of the Artist
2015
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
2004
Négropolitain
2008
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021
Which Way Africa?
2024
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
1998
The Great White of Lambarene
1995
Madeleine d'entre les Morts
2014
We Don't Choose Our Parents
2008
L'île des esclaves
2006
Elf, Kings of Oil
2007
So Be It
1997
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
2021
La nuit sera longue
2003
Brûlé neige
2022
Un si joli bouquet
1995
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
2024