Gérard Watkins
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-07-04
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
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.
Also Known For
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
May 23, 2007
Taken
Feb 18, 2008
The Accusation
Dec 01, 2021
Amarres
Feb 03, 2023
Silences d'état
May 16, 2013
Our Brothers
Dec 07, 2022
Love Me If You Dare
Sep 17, 2003
The Ponzi Scheme
Feb 14, 2014
Colt 45
Aug 06, 2014
Les Immortelles
Hidden Diary
Oct 07, 2009
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Dec 17, 2008
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Dec 24, 1986
Public Security
Jun 17, 1987
The Feelings Factory
Feb 06, 2008
Le Roi Lear
Sep 19, 2007
Solitudes
Sep 20, 2012
The Invisible Woman
Jul 22, 2009
The Returned
Oct 27, 2004
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Jul 03, 2003
New York 1935
Oct 01, 1988
The Odyssey
Oct 12, 2016
Je me fais rare
Jun 28, 2006
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Jun 11, 1992
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
May 20, 2010
Going South
Dec 30, 2009
Near Mrs.
Jan 08, 1992
Le monde qui nous perd
Oct 09, 2015
The Wolf of the West Coast
Aug 27, 2002
Travelling avant
Aug 19, 1987
Normandy Nude
Jan 10, 2018
The Hitchhiker
Nov 01, 1983
Marie Antoinette
Oct 31, 2022
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
Sep 02, 2002
Les Châtaigniers du désert
Nov 13, 2010
Floodtide
Jun 14, 1987
Venus & Apollo
Oct 03, 2005
Bordertown
Jan 07, 1989
EastEnders
Feb 19, 1985
Hemingway
Apr 25, 1988
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
May 26, 2000
