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