Gérard Watkins
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.
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Filme (32)

Stereo Girls
2026 · Pierre

Amarres
2023

Our Brothers
2022 · Le directeur de l'IGS

Menschliche Dinge
2021 · L'avocat général

Ein Dorf zieht blank
2018 · Volker

Jacques - Entdecker der Ozeane
2016 · Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd
2015 · Avocat partie civile

Colt 45
2014 · Calhoun

The Ponzi Scheme
2014 · Banquier Chmelinski

Der Staat schweigt
2013 · Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes
2012 · Le capitaine de police
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010 · Detective

Plein Sud - Auf dem Weg nach Süden
2009 · Le père

Hidden Diary
2009 · Gilles

The Invisible Woman
2009 · Paul

Largo Winch - Tödliches Erbe
2008 · Cattaneo

96 Hours
2008 · Patrice Saint-Clair

The Feelings Factory
2008 · Michel
Le Roi Lear
2007 · Edmund

Schmetterling und Taucherglocke
2007 · Doctor Cocheton

Je me fais rare
2006 · Acteur 1

The Returned
2004 · Le fils du maire

Liebe mich wenn du dich traust
2003 · Julien's Father

La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003 · Gérard Bourlet

The Wolf of the West Coast
2002 · Harry

Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992 · Le chasseur

Near Mrs.
1992 · Techtronics guard #1

Oostende
1991 · L'auto stoppeur
New York 1935
1988 · Un invité

Travelling avant
1987 · Young brawler

Public Security
1987

On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986 · Le soldat américain du film
Serien (10)

Machenschaften im Untergrund
2024 · Arnaud

Marie Antoinette
2022 · Duc de Choiseul

Les Châtaigniers du désert
2010 · Révérend Le Sage

Venus & Apollo
2005

Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
2002 · Carlo Conti

La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2000 · Gérard Bourlet

Bordertown
1989 · Paul Dumont

Hemingway
1988

EastEnders
1985 · Gendarme

The Hitchhiker
1983 · Eric
