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name: "Alex Descas"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:26:34.346890+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alex Descas

Actor. Born 1 January 1958 in France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1958, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Descas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2832932, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13609

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Irma Vep*](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md) (74)

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## Biography

Alex Descas is a French actor born on 1 January 1958 in France. He is known for roles in films by Claire Denis, including *No Fear, No Die* (1990), *I Can't Sleep* (1994), *Trouble Every Day* (2001) and *35 Shots of Rum* (2008), as well as appearances in Jim Jarmusch films such as *Coffee and Cigarettes* (2004) and *The Limits of Control* (2009).

Descas played Desormeaux in the 1996 film *Irma Vep* and Gregory Desormeaux in the 2022 television series of the same name. He is of Antillean (Guadeloupean) descent.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Irma Vep* (2022), Fi1m 74, as Gregory Desormeaux — [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md)

## Complete filmography (83)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Failing* (2026), as L'Abbé Gomis
- *Adam's Sake* (2025), as Naïm
- *Kenya - Gardiennes des éléphants* (2024), as Narrator (Voice)
- *Which Way Africa?* (2024), as Narrator
- *Brûlé neige* (2022), as Henri
- *Irma Vep* (2022), series, as Gregory Desormeaux — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md)
- *Frantz Fanon, trajectoire d'un révolté* (2021), as (Voix Off)
- *Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard* (2021), Acting
- *Exterminate All the Brutes* (2021), series, Acting
- *Sing Me Back Home* (2019), as Juan
- *Maya* (2018), as Frédéric
- *Volontaire* (2018), as Albertini
- *Iskander* (2018), series, as Oscar
- *Let the Sunshine In* (2017), as End Man
- *Gone* (2017), as Claude Vannier
- *Metropole* (2017), Acting
- *Chocolat* (2016), as Victor
- *Nina* (2015), series, as Mathias Savignon
- *Rouge* (2015), as Scottie, dans «Madeleine d'entre les morts»
- *Portrait of the Artist* (2015), as Scottie
- *Madeleine d'entre les Morts* (2014), as The man
- *Voilà l'enchaînement* (2014), as Lui
- *Murder in Pacot* (2014), as L'homme
- *Un enfant en danger* (2013), as André
- *Bastards* (2013), as Dr. Béthanie
- *Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté* (2013), as Aimé Césaire
- *Rapt* (2009), as Maître Walser
- *Persecution* (2009), as Thomas
- *The Limits of Control* (2009), as Creole
- *35 Shots of Rum* (2009), as Lionel
- *Négropolitain* (2008), as Alain
- *We Don't Choose Our Parents* (2008), as Le juge Mauvoisin
- *Déjà vu* (2007), as Kiff
- *Boarding Gate* (2007), as Andrew
- *Un flic* (2007), series, as Schneider
- *Tag!* (2007), as Nkruma
- *The Elf Case* (2007), as Pascal Lissouba
- *Elf, Kings of Oil* (2007), as Pascal Lissouba
- *L'île des esclaves* (2006), Acting
- *A Perfect Couple* (2006), as Patrick
- *The Intruder* (2005), as Le prêtre
- *In Your Dreams* (2005), as Mojo
- *The United States of Albert* (2005), as Nolton Barnett
- *Nèg maron* (2005), as Siwo
- *The Man Who Came From Elsewhere* (2004), as Pierre Adélaïde
- *Nord-plage* (2004), Acting
- *Coffee and Cigarettes* (2004), as Alex (segment "No Problem")
- *La nuit sera longue* (2003), as François
- *Tiresia* (2003), as Marignac
- *The Dope* (2003), as Shaft
- *Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* (2002), as (segment "Vers Nancy")
- *Vers Nancy* (2002), Acting
- *La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan* (2002), as (Segment 'Never Twice')
- *Trouble Every Day* (2001), as Dr. Léo
- *Lumumba* (2000), as Joseph Mobutu
- *Last Harem* (1999), as Nadir
- *Late August, Early September* (1999), as Jérémie
- *Le serpent a mangé la grenouille* (1998), as Yves Le Guen
- *The House* (1997), Acting
- *Nenette and Boni* (1997), as Gynecologist
- *My Family's Honour* (1997), as Malcolm
- *Africa Dreaming* (1997), as Michael
- *So Be It* (1997), Acting
- *Irma Vep* (1996), as Desormeaux
- *Clubbed to Death* (1996), as Mambo
- *Un si joli bouquet* (1995), as Barthélémy
- *Le Banquet* (1995), Acting
- *The Great White of Lambarene* (1995), as Koumba
- *The Heart's Cry* (1995), as Ibrahim Sow
- *Duo* (1995), as Man
- *The Masturbators* (1995), as Narrator
- *Never Twice* (1995), as Never Twice
- *I Can't Sleep* (1994), as Théo
- *Les Cordier, juge et flic* (1994), series, as Sayyid
- *The Absence* (1993), as Soldier
- *Lest We Forget* (1991), as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")
- *No Fear, No Die* (1990), as Jocelyn
- *How Good the Whites Are* (1988), as Le travailleur chez Renault
- *Taxi Boy* (1986), as Pascal
- *Urgence* (1985), Acting
- *The Syringe* (1984), as Le chef des 'Blackies'
- *The Arrival*, Acting
- *An Odd Enchantment*, Acting

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