Actor-Profile

Alex Descas

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

Porsonal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-01-01

Place of birth

France

Social Handle

6.9

Coffee and Cigarettes

2004-03-12

0.0

Never Twice

1995-01-01

10.0

Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté

2021-11-07

6.0

The Limits of Control

2009-05-01

6.7

Irma Vep

1996-10-01

7.0

The House

1997-10-01

6.8

35 Shots of Rum

2009-02-18

6.1

Rapt

2009-11-18

5.8

Trouble Every Day

2001-07-11

6.1

I Can't Sleep

1994-05-18

5.4

Last Harem

1999-11-24

0.0

Africa Dreaming

1997-01-01

6.5

Against Oblivion

1991-12-11

4.6

The Dope

2003-02-05

6.8

Lumumba

2000-09-27

4.4

Persecution

2009-10-17

5.9

Late August, Early September

1999-02-10

5.2

A Perfect Couple

2005-09-14

6.0

No Fear, No Die

1990-09-05

8.0

Vers Nancy

2002-09-02

5.7

Bastards

2013-08-07

3.0

The United States of Albert

2005-04-08

4.8

The Syringe

1984-11-14

0.0

My Family's Honour

1997-01-02

0.0

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

1998-08-12

0.0

Déjà vu

2007-10-16

6.1

How Good the Whites Are

1988-01-20

0.0

La nuit sera longue

2003-11-24

5.0

The Great White of Lambarene

1995-04-26

6.7

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

2002-09-20

0.0

Brûlé neige

2022-08-08

3.9

Murder in Pacot

2014-09-05

0.0

Which Way Africa?

2024-02-16

4.5

Urgence

1985-01-30

0.0

In a Memory of a Film Gone By

1998-01-01

0.0

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan

2002-04-03

6.1

Nèg maron

2005-01-19

7.3

Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants

2024-03-19

6.0

The Man Who Came From Elsewhere

2004-12-06

0.0

Madeleine d'entre les Morts

2014-10-03

6.6

Adam's Sake

2025-09-17

0.0

Metropole

2017-01-01

7.0

Un enfant en danger

2013-09-15

6.8

Chocolat

2016-02-03

5.2

Let the Sunshine In

2017-09-27

5.7

Volontaire

2018-06-06

5.2

In Your Dreams

2005-04-13

0.0

Nord-plage

2004-10-07

5.3

Maya

2018-12-19

6.2

Clubbed to Death

1996-06-25

5.5

Tag!

2007-01-24

5.8

Voilà l'enchaînement

2014-09-07

6.4

Nenette and Boni

1997-01-29

6.5

The Intruder

2005-05-04

5.3

The Absence

1993-01-20

5.0

Boarding Gate

2007-08-22

0.0

Un si joli bouquet

1995-09-20

0.0

Duo

1995-04-04

5.7

Portrait of the Artist

2015-03-15

5.0

Gone

2017-09-13

0.0

Négropolitain

2008-12-30

5.4

The Heart's Cry

1995-04-05

6.5

Rouge

2015-06-11

5.8

Tiresia

2003-05-20

0.0

So Be It

1997-01-01

0.0

Césaire, le prix de la liberté

2013-06-26

1.0

The Masturbators

1995-01-01

0.0

Elf, Kings of Oil

2007-01-01

5.0

The Elf Case

2007-01-01

0.0

L'île des esclaves

2006-12-31

3.0

Taxi Boy

1986-04-30

0.0

We Don't Choose Our Parents

2008-10-29

0.0

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

2021-07-08

5.0

Sing Me Back Home

2019-03-06

0.0

The Arrival

0.0

The Failing

2026-01-17