Gérard Watkins
Acting
Born July 4, 1965, London, England, UK
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
- 2026Stereo Girls — Pierre
- 9/12 — Arnaud
- 2023Amarres
- Marie Antoinette — Duc de Choiseul
- 2022Our Brothers — Le directeur de l'IGS
- 2021The Accusation — L'avocat général
- 2018Normandy Nude — Volker
- 2016The Odyssey — Le maître de cérémonie
- 2015Le monde qui nous perd — Avocat partie civile
- 2014Colt 45 — Calhoun
- 2014The Ponzi Scheme — Banquier Chmelinski
- 2013Silences d'état — Stéphane Ferran
- 2012Solitudes — Le capitaine de police
- Les Châtaigniers du désert — Révérend Le Sage
- 2010Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) — Detective
- 2009Going South — Le père
- 2009Hidden Diary — Gilles
- 2009The Invisible Woman — Paul
- 2008Taken — Patrice Saint-Clair
- 2008The Feelings Factory — Michel
- 2008The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch — Cattaneo
- 2007Le Roi Lear — Edmund
- 2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Doctor Cocheton
- 2006Je me fais rare — Acteur 1
- Venus & Apollo
- 2004The Returned — Le fils du maire
- 2003La Commune (Paris, 1871) — Gérard Bourlet
- 2003Love Me If You Dare — Julien's Father
- Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme — Carlo Conti
- 2002The Wolf of the West Coast — Harry
- La Commune (Paris, 1871) — Gérard Bourlet
- 1992Les Danseurs du Mozambique — Le chasseur
- 1992Near Mrs. — Techtronics guard #1
- 1991Oostende — L'auto stoppeur
- Bordertown — Paul Dumont
- Hemingway
- 1988New York 1935 — Un invité
- Floodtide — TJ
- 1987Public Security
- 1987Travelling avant — Young brawler
- 1986On a volé Charlie Spencer ! — Le soldat américain du film
- EastEnders — Gendarme
- The Hitchhiker — Eric