Alex Descas

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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

71

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-01-01 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

France

Alex Descas

Biography

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

Coffee and Cigarettes
7.0%

Coffee and Cigarettes

Mar 12, 2004

Chocolat
6.9%

Chocolat

Feb 3, 2016

The Limits of Control
6.0%

The Limits of Control

May 1, 2009

Let the Sunshine In
5.2%

Let the Sunshine In

Sep 27, 2017

The Dope
4.6%

The Dope

Feb 5, 2003

Irma Vep
6.7%

Irma Vep

Oct 1, 1996

Trouble Every Day
5.8%

Trouble Every Day

Jul 11, 2001

Volontaire
5.8%

Volontaire

Jun 6, 2018

Irma Vep
6.7%

Irma Vep

Jun 6, 2022

Bastards
5.8%

Bastards

Aug 7, 2013

Boarding Gate
4.9%

Boarding Gate

Aug 22, 2007

35 Shots of Rum
6.8%

35 Shots of Rum

Feb 18, 2009

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2024
Which Way Africa? as Narrator
2022
Brûlé neige as Henri
2022
Irma Vep as Gregory Desormeaux
2021
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté as (Voix Off)
2021
Exterminate All the Brutes
2018
Maya as Frédéric
2018
Volontaire as Albertini
2018
Iskander as Oscar
2017
Let the Sunshine In as End Man
2017
Escamotage
2017
Metropole
2016
Chocolat as Victor
2015
Nina as Mathias Savignon
2015
Rouge as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015
Portrait of the Artist as Scottie
2014
Madeleine d’entre les Morts
2014
Voilà l'enchaînement as Lui
2014
Murder in Pacot as L'homme
2013
Un enfant en danger as André
2013
Bastards as Dr. Béthanie
2013
Césaire, le prix de la liberté as Aimé Césaire
2009
Rapt as Maître Walser
2009
Persecution as Thomas
2009
The Limits of Control as Creole
2009
35 Shots of Rum as Lionel
2008
Négropolitain
2007
Déjà vu as Kiff
2007
Boarding Gate as Andrew
2007
Un flic as Schneider
2007
Tag! as Nkruma
2005
A Perfect Couple as Patrick
2005
The Intruder as Le prêtre
2005
In Your Dreams as Mojo
2005
The United States of Albert as Nolton Barnett
2005
Nèg maron as Siwo
2004
L'Homme qui venait d'ailleurs as Pierre Adélaïde
2004
Nord-plage
2004
Coffee and Cigarettes as Alex (segment "No Problem")
2003
La nuit sera longue as François
2003
Tiresia as Marignac
2003
The Dope as Shaft
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as (segment "Vers Nancy")
2002
Vers Nancy
2002
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan as Segment 'Never Twice'
2001
Trouble Every Day as Dr. Léo
2000
Lumumba as Joseph Mobutu
1999
Last Harem as Nadir
1999
Late August, Early September as Jérémie
1998
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998
In a Memory of a Film Gone By as himself
1997
The House
1997
Nenette and Boni as Gynecologist
1997
My Family's Honour
1997
So Be It
1997
Africa Dreaming as Michael
1996
Irma Vep as Desormeaux
1996
Clubbed to Death as Mambo
1995
Un si joli bouquet as Barthélémy
1995
The Great White of Lambarene as Koumba
1995
The Heart's Cry as Ibrahim Sow
1995
Duo as Man
1995
The Masturbators as Narrator
1995
Never Twice as Never Twice
1994
I Can't Sleep as Théo
1994
Les Cordier, juge et flic as Sayyid
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
1985
Urgence
1984
The Syringe as Le chef des 'Blackies'
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