Gérard Watkins

Birthday:
07/04/1965
Place of birth:
London, England, UK:
Biography:
Gérard Watkins is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. As a stage actor he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directors as Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Beres, Jean-Claude Buchard, Elizabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frederic Fisbach, Marc François, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Yann Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Edmond in King Lear, and Rosalind in As you Like it. In the Cinema he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair, the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter, but he has also performed with directors as Julie Lopez Curval, Jérome Salle, Yann Samuel, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, and Peter Watkins. Since 1994 he has directed his own theatre company, the Perdita Ensemble, where he has staged all of his plays, the Secret Capital, Follow Me, The Tower, In the Faraway Forest, Icone, Identity, Lost, and I Don't Remember Very Well.

Credits

Les Immortelles (2026)
as Pierre
Amarres (2023)
Nos frangins (2022)
as Le directeur de l'IGS
Les Choses humaines (2021)
as L'avocat général
Normandie Nue (2018)
as Volker
L'Odyssée (2016)
as Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd (2015)
as Avocat partie civile
Colt 45 (2014)
as Calhoun
Le système de Ponzi (2014)
as Banquier Chmelinski
Silences d'état (2013)
as Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes (2012)
as Le capitaine de police
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010)
as Detective
Plein sud (2009)
as Le père
Mères et filles (2009)
as Gilles
La Femme invisible (2009)
as Paul
Largo Winch (2008)
as Cattaneo
Taken (2008)
as Patrice Saint-Clair
La Fabrique des sentiments (2008)
as Michel
Le Roi Lear (2007)
as Edmund
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
as Doctor Cocheton
Je me fais rare (2006)
as Acteur 1
Les Revenants (2004)
as Le fils du maire
Jeux d'enfants (2003)
as Julien's Father
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
as Gérard Bourlet
Le Loup de la côte Ouest (2002)
as Harry
Les Danseurs du Mozambique (1992)
as Le chasseur
L'ambassade en folie (1992)
as Techtronics guard #1
New York 1935 (1988)
as Un invité
Travelling avant (1987)
as Young brawler
Sécurité publique (1987)
On a volé Charlie Spencer ! (1986)
as Le soldat américain du film

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