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.
Acting
Movie
Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
2008
Movie
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
2003
Movie
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
2007
Movie
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
2008
Movie
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie
2016
TV
EastEnders
as Gendarme
1985
Movie
The Accusation
as L'avocat général
2021
Movie
Colt 45
as Calhoun
2014
Movie
Normandy Nude
as Volker
2018
Movie
The Returned
as Le fils du maire
2004
TV
Marie Antoinette
as Duc de Choiseul
2022
Movie
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
2022
Movie
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
2003
Movie
Going South
as Le père
2009
TV
The Hitchhiker
as Eric
1983
Movie
Hidden Diary
as Gilles
2009
TV
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
as Carlo Conti
2002
Movie
The Feelings Factory
as Michel
2008
TV
Bordertown
as Paul Dumont
1989
Movie
Travelling avant
as Young brawler
1987
Movie
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
2013
Movie
The Wolf of the West Coast
as Harry
2002
Movie
The Invisible Woman
as Paul
2009
TV
9/12
as Arnaud
2024