Cast & creator
Alex Descas
Best known for You+Me - Against the World, Les Cordier, juge et flic, Irma Vep
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.
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film credits
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television credits
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1984–2026 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (85)
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You+Me - Against the World
Léonard Abrams
2026
Les Cordier, juge et flic
Sayyid
1994
Irma Vep
Gregory Desormeaux
2022
Nina
Mathias Savignon
2015
Exterminate All the Brutes
2021
Coffee and Cigarettes
Alex (segment "No Problem")
2004
Un flic
Schneider
2007
Volontaire
Albertini
2018
The Limits of Control
Creole
2009
Trouble Every Day
Dr. Léo
2001
Let the Sunshine In
End Man
2017
Irma Vep
Desormeaux
1996
Iskander
Oscar
2018
Le Banquet
1995
Bastards
Dr. Béthanie
2013
The House
1997
Nèg maron
Siwo
2005
Boarding Gate
Andrew
2007
The Absence
Soldier
1993The Arrival
Chocolat
Victor
2016
How Good the Whites Are
Le travailleur chez Renault
1988
Last Harem
Nadir
1999
No Fear, No Die
Jocelyn
1990
The Syringe
Le chef des 'Blackies'
1984
Late August, Early September
Jérémie
1999
Nord-plage
2004
Adam's Sake
Naïm
2025
Taxi Boy
Pascal
1986
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
(segment "Vers Nancy")
2002
The United States of Albert
Nolton Barnett
2005
Tiresia
Marignac
2003
I Can't Sleep
Théo
1994
Africa Dreaming
Michael
1997
The Failing
L'Abbé Gomis
2026
Duo
Man
1995
Lest We Forget
Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
1991
Négropolitain
Alain
2008
Never Twice
Never Twice
1995
Elf, Kings of Oil
Pascal Lissouba
2007
Tag!
Nkruma
2007
Nenette and Boni
Gynecologist
1997
35 Shots of Rum
Lionel
2009
Gone
Claude Vannier
2017
Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté
Aimé Césaire
2013
The Heart's Cry
Ibrahim Sow
1995An Odd Enchantment
A Perfect Couple
Patrick
2006
The Great White of Lambarene
Koumba
1995
Clubbed to Death
Mambo
1996
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
(Segment 'Never Twice')
2002
Persecution
Thomas
2009Déjà vu
Kiff
2007
In Your Dreams
Mojo
2005
Sing Me Back Home
Juan
2019
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Pierre Adélaïde
2004
The Elf Case
Pascal Lissouba
2007
Which Way Africa?
Narrator
2024
The Masturbators
Narrator
1995
We Don't Choose Our Parents
Le juge Mauvoisin
2008
Vers Nancy
2002
Rapt
Maître Walser
2009
My Family's Honour
Malcolm
1997
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Yves Le Guen
1998
Rouge
Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
2015
Un enfant en danger
André
2013
The Dope
Shaft
2003
Murder in Pacot
L'homme
2014
Maya
Frédéric
2018
Un si joli bouquet
Barthélémy
1995
Portrait of the Artist
Scottie
2015
The Intruder
Le prêtre
2005
Lumumba
Joseph Mobutu
2000Metropole
2017
Voilà l'enchaînement
Lui
2014Madeleine d'entre les Morts
The man
2014
In a Memory of a Film Gone By
himself
1998
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
2021
L'île des esclaves
2006
La nuit sera longue
François
2003
So Be It
1997
Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté
(Voix Off)
2021
Urgence
1985
Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants
Narrator (Voice)
2024
Brûlé neige
Henri
2022