Alex Descas
Acting

Alex Descas

Born 1 January 1958 · France
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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.

Known for

Coffee and Cigarettes
Chocolat
The Limits of Control
Irma Vep
Trouble Every Day
Let the Sunshine In
The Dope
Irma Vep
Boarding Gate
You+Me - Against the World
Volontaire
Bastards
The Failing
You+Me - Against the World
Adam's Sake
Which Way Africa?
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
Brûlé neige
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Sing Me Back Home
Volontaire
Maya
Let the Sunshine In
Gone
Chocolat
Portrait of the Artist
Rouge
Murder in Pacot
Voilà l'enchaînement
Bastards
Child in Peril
Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté
The Limits of Control
35 Shots of Rum
Rapt
Persecution
Négropolitain
We Don't Choose Our Parents
Tag!
Boarding Gate
Elf, Kings of Oil
The Elf Case
A Perfect Couple
L'île des esclaves
The United States of Albert
Nèg maron
In Your Dreams
The Intruder
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Nord-plage
The Dope
La nuit sera longue
Tiresia
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Trouble Every Day
Lumumba
Last Harem
Late August, Early September
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
The House
Africa Dreaming
My Family's Honour
Nenette and Boni
So Be It
Irma Vep
Clubbed to Death
Never Twice
The Great White of Lambarene
Un si joli bouquet
Duo
The Heart's Cry
The Masturbators
I Can't Sleep
The Absence
Lest We Forget
No Fear, No Die
How Good the Whites Are
Taxi Boy
Urgence
The Syringe
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