Acting
Gérard Watkins
FR, EN cinema · 32 credits
Born
4 July 1965 (age 61)
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Also known as Gerard Watkins · Gerald 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.
Known for
Filmography
Stereo Girls
as Pierre
Amarres
Actor
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
The Accusation
as L'avocat général
Normandy Nude
as Volker
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd
2015
Le monde qui nous perd
as Avocat partie civile
The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier Chmelinski
Colt 45
as Calhoun
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes
2012
Solitudes
as Le capitaine de police
Hidden Diary
as Gilles
Going South
as Le père
Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
The Feelings Factory
as Michel
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1
The Returned
as Le fils du maire
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Le chasseur
Near Mrs.
as Techtronics guard #1
Oostende
as L'auto stoppeur
New York 1935
1988
New York 1935
as Un invité
Travelling avant
as Young brawler
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
as Le soldat américain du film