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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 4, 1965
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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Gérard Watkins
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Amarres | |
| 2022 | Our Brothers | Le directeur de l'IGS |
| 2021 | The Accusation | L'avocat général |
| 2018 | Normandy Nude | Volker |
| 2016 | The Odyssey | Le maître de cérémonie |
| 2015 | Le monde qui nous perd | Avocat partie civile |
| 2014 | The Ponzi Scheme | Banquier Chmelinski |
| 2014 | Colt 45 | Calhoun |
| 2013 | Silences d'état | Stéphane Ferran |
| 2012 | Solitudes | Le capitaine de police |
| 2010 | Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) | Detective |
| 2009 | Hidden Diary | Gilles |
| 2009 | The Invisible Woman | Paul |
| 2009 | Going South | Le père |
| 2008 | Taken | Patrice Saint-Clair |
| 2008 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch | Cattaneo |
| 2008 | The Feelings Factory | Michel |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Doctor Cocheton |
| 2007 | Le Roi Lear | Edmund |
| 2006 | Je me fais rare | Acteur 1 |
| 2004 | The Returned | Le fils du maire |
| 2003 | Love Me If You Dare | Julien's Father |
| 2003 | La Commune (Paris, 1871) | Gérard Bourlet |
| 2002 | The Wolf of the West Coast | Harry |
| 1992 | Les Danseurs du Mozambique | Le chasseur |
| 1992 | Near Mrs. | Techtronics guard #1 |
| 1988 | New York 1935 | Un invité |
| 1987 | Public Security | |
| 1987 | Travelling avant | Young brawler |
| 1986 | On a volé Charlie Spencer ! | Le soldat américain du film |
| Les Immortelles |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Citoyens clandestins | Arnaud |
| 2022 | Marie Antoinette | Duc de Choiseul |
| 2010 | Les Châtaigniers du désert | Révérend Le Sage |
| 2005 | Venus & Apollo | |
| 2002 | Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme | Carlo Conti |
| 2000 | La Commune (Paris, 1871) | Gérard Bourlet |
| 1989 | Bordertown | Paul Dumont |
| 1988 | Hemingway | |
| 1987 | Floodtide | TJ |
| 1985 | EastEnders | Gendarme |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Eric |