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Alex Descas

Alex Descas

Highest Rated: 100% No Fear, No Die (1990)

Lowest Rated: 33% Boarding Gate (2007)

Birthday: Jan 1, 1958

Birthplace: France

Born in France in 1958, Alex Descas first started acting in his native country in 1984 with the film "The Syringe." He continued to accept roles in France, both in film and television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including movies such as "Ya bon les blancs," "The Absence," "Clubbed to Death (Lola)," and "La vie en face," and television roles on shows including "Serie noire" and "Les cordier, juge et flic." Descas first began to gain international recognition in 2000, when he took on the role of Joseph Mobutu in Raoul Peck's 2000 film, "Lumumba." As he continued to act in French film and television, he began to branch out in a pair of pictures by acclaimed director Jim Jarmusch. He acted in the "No Problem" segment of the director's 2003 "Coffee and Cigarettes" and in 2009 went on to appear in Jarmusch's "The Limits of Control" alongside actors including Bill Murray, Jon Hurt, and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Highest rated movies

100% No Fear, No Die
97% Rapt
97% 35 Shots of Rum
94% Irma Vep
91% The Intruder
87% Let the Sunshine In
86% Nenette and Boni
82% Lumumba

Photos

35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, from left: Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin, 2009. Ph: Teresa Isasi-Isasmendi/©Focus Features 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas (right), 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas (center), 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), from left: Alex Descas, director Claire Denis, on set, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas (right), 2008. ©The Cinema Guild TROUBLE EVERY DAY, Beatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, 2002 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), from left: Nicole Dogue, Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild 35 SHOTS OF RUM, (aka 35 RHUMS), Alex Descas, 2008. ©The Cinema Guild
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Raising Colors Albertini (Character) - 2018
70% No Score Yet Maya Frédéric (Character) - 2018
87% 32% Let the Sunshine In Marc (Character) $864.6K 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Child in Danger Unknown (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet La vie pure Léon Gontran Damas (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder in Pacot Unknown (Character) - 2014
68% 36% Bastards Dr. Béthanie (Character) $12.2K 2013
No Score Yet 29% Persecution Thomas (Character) - 2009
97% 66% Rapt Maître Walser (Character) $45.7K 2009
43% 43% The Limits of Control Creole (Character) $425.0K 2009
97% 65% 35 Shots of Rum Lionel (Character) $177.5K 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Négropolitan Alain (Character) - 2008
33% 20% Boarding Gate Andrew (Character) $49.3K 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Predators Unknown (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The United States of Albert Nolton Barnett (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Un Couple Parfait Patrick (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Your Dreams Mojo (Character) - 2005
91% 73% The Intruder Le prêtre (Character) $40.6K 2004
No Score Yet 19% The Dope Shaft (Character) - 2003
64% 75% Coffee and Cigarettes Alex (Character) $2.0M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ten Minutes Older: The Cello Unknown (Character) - 2002
56% 54% Trouble Every Day Léo (Character) $9.2K 2001
82% 83% Lumumba Joseph Mobutu (Character) $684.1K 2000
No Score Yet 68% Harem Suare Nadir (Character) $9.0K 1999
78% 75% Late August, Early September Jeremie (Character) $68.2K 1998
No Score Yet 78% Clubbed to Death Mambo (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 80% The House Unknown (Character) - 1997
86% 78% Nenette and Boni Le gynécologue/Gynecologist (Character) $61.9K 1996
94% 71% Irma Vep Desormeaux (Character) $191.2K 1996
64% 76% I Can't Sleep Theo (Character) $13.3K 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great White of Lambarene Koumba (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Heart's Cry Ibrahim Sow (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Le Cri du Coeur Ibrahim Sow (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Absence Soldier (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Child of the South Zeto (Character) - 1991
100% 70% No Fear, No Die Jocelyn (Character) - 1990

TV

Credit
95% 62% Irma Vep Gregory Desormeaux (Character) 2022