Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

  • Birthday: 1965-07-04
  • Place of birth: London, England, UK
  • Also know as: Gerard Watkins

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.

Filmography

Le monde qui nous perd

2015

As Avocat partie civile

Les Danseurs du Mozambique

1992

As Le chasseur

Solitudes

2012

As Le capitaine de police

Amarres

2023

As

Le Roi Lear

2007

As Edmund

Je me fais rare

2006

As Acteur 1

New York 1935

1988

As Un invité

Silences d'état

2013

As Stéphane Ferran

Public Security

1987

As -

On a volé Charlie Spencer !

1986

As Le soldat américain du film

Plein sud

2009

As Le père

Near Mrs.

1992

As Techtronics guard #1

The Ponzi Scheme

2014

As Banquier Chmelinski

Hidden Diary

2009

As Gilles

The Invisible Woman

2009

As Paul

Our Brothers

2022

As Le directeur de l'IGS

They Came Back

2004

As Le fils du maire

The Feelings Factory

2008

As Michel

The Accusation

2021

As L'avocat général

Taken

2008

As Patrice Saint-Clair

Love Me If You Dare

2003

As Julien's Father

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

2003

As Gérard Bourlet

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

As Doctor Cocheton

The Odyssey

2016

As Le maître de cérémonie

Normandy Nude

2018

As Volker

Colt 45

2014

As Calhoun

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