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

Les Cordier, juge et flic

Sayyid

Exterminate All the Brutes

Nina

Mathias Savignon

Irma Vep

Gregory Desormeaux

Coffee and Cigarettes

Alex (segment "No Problem")

Trouble Every Day

Dr. Léo

Iskander

Oscar

Let the Sunshine In

End Man

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Adam's Sake	Naïm
2024	Which Way Africa?	Narrator
2024	Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants	Narrator (Voice)
2022	Brûlé neige	Henri
2021	Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté	(Voix Off)
2021	Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2018	Volontaire	Albertini
2018	Maya	Frédéric
2017	Metropole
2017	Let the Sunshine In	End Man
2017	Gone	Claude Vannier
2016	Chocolat	Victor
2015	Portrait of the Artist	Scottie
2015	Rouge	Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2014	Murder in Pacot	L'homme
2014	Madeleine d’entre les Morts
2014	Voilà l'enchaînement	Lui
2013	Bastards	Dr. Béthanie
2013	Un enfant en danger	André
2013	Césaire, le prix de la liberté	Aimé Césaire
2009	The Limits of Control	Creole
2009	35 Shots of Rum	Lionel
2009	Rapt	Maître Walser
2009	Persecution	Thomas
2008	Négropolitain	Alain
2008	We Don't Choose Our Parents	Le juge Mauvoisin
2007	Déjà vu	Kiff
2007	Tag!	Nkruma
2007	Boarding Gate	Andrew
2007	Elf, Kings of Oil	Pascal Lissouba
2007	The Elf Case	Pascal Lissouba
2006	L'île des esclaves
2005	A Perfect Couple	Patrick
2005	The United States of Albert	Nolton Barnett
2005	Nèg maron	Siwo
2005	In Your Dreams	Mojo
2005	The Intruder	Le prêtre
2004	Coffee and Cigarettes	Alex (segment "No Problem")
2004	The Man Who Came From Elsewhere	Pierre Adélaïde
2004	Nord-plage
2003	The Dope	Shaft
2003	La nuit sera longue	François
2003	Tiresia	Marignac
2002	Vers Nancy
2002	Ten Minutes Older: The Cello	(segment "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
1998	In a Memory of a Film Gone By	himself
1997	The House
1997	Africa Dreaming	Michael
1997	My Family's Honour	Malcolm
1997	Nenette and Boni	Gynecologist
1997	So Be It
1996	Irma Vep	Desormeaux
1996	Clubbed to Death	Mambo
1995	Never Twice	Never Twice
1995	The Great White of Lambarene	Koumba
1995	Un si joli bouquet	Barthélémy
1995	Duo	Man
1995	The Heart's Cry	Ibrahim Sow
1995	The Masturbators	Narrator
1994	I Can't Sleep	Théo
1993	The Absence	Soldier
1991	Against Oblivion	Self
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'

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	Irma Vep	Gregory Desormeaux
2021	Exterminate All the Brutes
2018	Iskander	Oscar
2015	Nina	Mathias Savignon
2007	Un flic	Schneider
1994	Les Cordier, juge et flic	Sayyid