Gérard Watkins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 4, 1965 (age 61)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Stereo Girls
Movie · as Pierre
9/12
TV · as Arnaud · 4 eps
Amarres
Movie
Our Brothers
Movie · as Le directeur de l'IGS
Marie Antoinette
TV · as Duc de Choiseul · 2 eps
The Accusation
Movie · as L'avocat général
Normandy Nude
Movie · as Volker
The Odyssey
Movie · as Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd
Movie · as Avocat partie civile
The Ponzi Scheme
Movie · as Banquier Chmelinski
Colt 45
Movie · as Calhoun
Silences d'état
Movie · as Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes
Movie · as Le capitaine de police
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Movie · as Detective
Les Châtaigniers du désert
TV · as Révérend Le Sage · 2 eps
Hidden Diary
Movie · as Gilles
The Invisible Woman
Movie · as Paul
Going South
Movie · as Le père
Taken
Movie · as Patrice Saint-Clair
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Movie · as Cattaneo
The Feelings Factory
Movie · as Michel
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie · as Doctor Cocheton
Le Roi Lear
Movie · as Edmund
Je me fais rare
Movie · as Acteur 1
Venus & Apollo
TV · 8 eps
The Returned
Movie · as Le fils du maire
Love Me If You Dare
Movie · as Julien's Father
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Movie · as Gérard Bourlet
The Wolf of the West Coast
Movie · as Harry
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
TV · as Carlo Conti
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
TV · as Gérard Bourlet · 2 eps
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Movie · as Le chasseur
Near Mrs.
Movie · as Techtronics guard #1
Oostende
Movie · as L'auto stoppeur
Bordertown
TV · as Paul Dumont · 1 ep
New York 1935
Movie · as Un invité
Hemingway
TV · 4 eps
Public Security
Movie
Travelling avant
Movie · as Young brawler
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Movie · as Le soldat américain du film
EastEnders
TV · as Gendarme · 1 ep
The Hitchhiker
TV · as Eric · 1 ep