Gérard Watkins
Acting • Born 1965-07-04
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
42 credits
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie • 2007
Doctor Cocheton
Taken
Movie • 2008
Patrice Saint-Clair
The Accusation
Movie • 2021
L'avocat général
Amarres
Movie • 2023
Silences d'état
Movie • 2013
Stéphane Ferran
Our Brothers
Movie • 2022
Le directeur de l'IGS
Love Me If You Dare
Movie • 2003
Julien's Father
The Ponzi Scheme
Movie • 2014
Banquier Chmelinski
Colt 45
Movie • 2014
Calhoun
Stereo Girls
Movie • 2026
Hidden Diary
Movie • 2009
Gilles
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Movie • 2008
Cattaneo
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Movie • 1986
Le soldat américain du film
Public Security
Movie • 1987
The Feelings Factory
Movie • 2008
Michel
Le Roi Lear
Movie • 2007
Edmund
Solitudes
Movie • 2012
Le capitaine de police
The Invisible Woman
Movie • 2009
Paul
The Returned
Movie • 2004
Le fils du maire
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Movie • 2003
Gérard Bourlet
New York 1935
Movie • 1988
Un invité
The Odyssey
Movie • 2016
Le maître de cérémonie
Je me fais rare
Movie • 2006
Acteur 1
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Movie • 1992
Le chasseur
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Movie • 2010
Detective
Going South
Movie • 2009
Le père
Near Mrs.
Movie • 1992
Techtronics guard #1
Le monde qui nous perd
Movie • 2015
Avocat partie civile
The Wolf of the West Coast
Movie • 2002
Harry
Travelling avant
Movie • 1987
Young brawler
Normandy Nude
Movie • 2018
Volker
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Eric
Marie Antoinette
TV • 2022
Duc de Choiseul
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
TV • 2002
Carlo Conti
Les Châtaigniers du désert
TV • 2010
Révérend Le Sage
Venus & Apollo
TV • 2005
EastEnders
TV • 1985
Gendarme
Bordertown
TV • 1989
Paul Dumont
Floodtide
TV • 1987
TJ
Hemingway
TV • 1988
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
TV • 2000
Gérard Bourlet
9/12
TV • 2024
Arnaud