Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 04, 1965
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
43 titles
Gérard 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.
Known For
Filmography
Stereo Girls
Pierre
9/12
Arnaud
Amarres
Our Brothers
Le directeur de l'IGS
Marie Antoinette
Duc de Choiseul
The Accusation
L'avocat général
Normandy Nude
Volker
The Odyssey
Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd
Avocat partie civile
Colt 45
Calhoun
The Ponzi Scheme
Banquier Chmelinski
Silences d'état
Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes
Le capitaine de police
Les Châtaigniers du désert
Révérend Le Sage
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Detective
Going South
Le père
Hidden Diary
Gilles
The Invisible Woman
Paul
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Cattaneo
Taken
Patrice Saint-Clair
The Feelings Factory
Michel
Le Roi Lear
Edmund
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Doctor Cocheton
Je me fais rare
Acteur 1
Venus & Apollo
The Returned
Le fils du maire
Love Me If You Dare
Julien's Father
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Gérard Bourlet
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
Carlo Conti
The Wolf of the West Coast
Harry
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Gérard Bourlet
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Le chasseur
Near Mrs.
Techtronics guard #1
Oostende
L'auto stoppeur
Bordertown
Paul Dumont
New York 1935
Un invité
Hemingway
Travelling avant
Young brawler
Public Security
Floodtide
TJ
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Le soldat américain du film
EastEnders
Gendarme
The Hitchhiker
Eric