Gérard Watkins
32 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 4, 1965 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Gerard Watkins · Gerald 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Gérard Watkins: movies and TV shows
Acting (43)
- 2026 Stereo Girls
as Pierre
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
- 2022
- 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
- 2014 The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier Chmelinski
- 2013 Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
- 2012 Solitudes
as Le capitaine de police
- 2010
- 2010 Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
as Detective
- 2009 Going South
as Le père
- 2009 Hidden Diary
as Gilles
- 2009 The Invisible Woman
as Paul
- 2008 The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
- 2008 Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
- 2008 The Feelings Factory
as Michel
- 2007 Le Roi Lear
as Edmund
- 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
- 2006 Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1
- 2005
- 2004 The Returned
as Le fils du maire
- 2003 Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
- 2003 La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
- 2002
- 2002 The Wolf of the West Coast
as Harry
- 2000
- 1992 Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Le chasseur
- 1992 Near Mrs.
as Techtronics guard #1
- 1991 Oostende
as L'auto stoppeur
- 1989
- 1988 New York 1935
as Un invité
- 1988
- 1987 Travelling avant
as Young brawler
- 1987
- 1987
- 1986 On a volé Charlie Spencer !
as Le soldat américain du film
- 1985
- 1983