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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alex Descas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026The Failing — L'Abbé Gomis
• 2026You+Me - Against the World — Léonard Abrams
• 2025Adam's Sake — Naïm
• 2024Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants — Narrator (Voice)
• 2024Which Way Africa? — Narrator
• 2022Brûlé neige — Henri
• Irma Vep — Gregory Desormeaux
• 2021Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
• Exterminate All the Brutes
• 2021Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté — (Voix Off)
• 2019Sing Me Back Home — Juan
• Iskander — Oscar
• 2018Maya — Frédéric
• 2018Volontaire — Albertini
• 2017Gone — Claude Vannier
• 2017Let the Sunshine In — End Man
• 2017Metropole
• 2016Chocolat — Victor
• Nina — Mathias Savignon
• 2015Portrait of the Artist — Scottie
• 2015Rouge — Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
• 2014Madeleine d'entre les Morts — The man
• 2014Murder in Pacot — L'homme
• 2014Voilà l'enchaînement — Lui
• 2013Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté — Aimé Césaire
• 2013Bastards — Dr. Béthanie
• 2013Un enfant en danger — André
• 200935 Shots of Rum — Lionel
• 2009Persecution — Thomas
• 2009Rapt — Maître Walser
• 2009The Limits of Control — Creole
• 2008Négropolitain — Alain
• 2008We Don't Choose Our Parents — Le juge Mauvoisin
• 2007Boarding Gate — Andrew
• 2007Déjà vu — Kiff
• 2007Elf, Kings of Oil — Pascal Lissouba
• 2007Tag! — Nkruma
• 2007The Elf Case — Pascal Lissouba
• Un flic — Schneider
• 2006A Perfect Couple — Patrick
• 2006L'île des esclaves
• 2005In Your Dreams — Mojo
• 2005Nèg maron — Siwo
• 2005The Intruder — Le prêtre
• 2005The United States of Albert — Nolton Barnett
• 2004Coffee and Cigarettes — Alex (segment "No Problem")
• 2004Nord-plage
• 2004The Man Who Came From Elsewhere — Pierre Adélaïde
• 2003La nuit sera longue — François
• 2003The Dope — Shaft
• 2003Tiresia — Marignac
• 2002La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan — (Segment 'Never Twice')
• 2002Ten Minutes Older: The Cello — (segment "Vers Nancy")
• 2002Vers Nancy
• 2001Trouble Every Day — Dr. Léo
• 2000Lumumba — Joseph Mobutu
• 1999Last Harem — Nadir
• 1999Late August, Early September — Jérémie
• 1998Le serpent a mangé la grenouille — Yves Le Guen
• 1997Africa Dreaming — Michael
• 1997My Family's Honour — Malcolm
• 1997Nenette and Boni — Gynecologist
• 1997So Be It
• 1997The House
• 1996Clubbed to Death — Mambo
• 1996Irma Vep — Desormeaux
• 1995Duo — Man
• 1995Le Banquet
• 1995Never Twice — Never Twice
• 1995The Great White of Lambarene — Koumba
• 1995The Heart's Cry — Ibrahim Sow
• 1995The Masturbators — Narrator
• 1995Un si joli bouquet — Barthélémy
• 1994I Can't Sleep — Théo
• Les Cordier, juge et flic — Sayyid
• 1993The Absence — Soldier
• 1991Lest We Forget — Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
• 1990No Fear, No Die — Jocelyn
• 1988How Good the Whites Are — Le travailleur chez Renault
• 1986Taxi Boy — Pascal
• 1985Urgence
• 1984The Syringe — Le chef des 'Blackies'
• An Odd Enchantment
• The Arrival

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1998In a Memory of a Film Gone By — himself