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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Taken (2008) — Patrice Saint-Clair
2. Love Me If You Dare (2003) — Julien's Father
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) — Doctor Cocheton
4. The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008) — Cattaneo
5. The Odyssey (2016) — Le maître de cérémonie
6. EastEnders (1985) — Gendarme
7. The Accusation (2021) — L'avocat général
8. Colt 45 (2014) — Calhoun
9. Normandy Nude (2018) — Volker
10. The Returned (2004) — Le fils du maire
11. Marie Antoinette (2022) — Duc de Choiseul
12. Our Brothers (2022) — Le directeur de l'IGS
13. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003) — Gérard Bourlet
14. Going South (2009) — Le père
15. The Hitchhiker (1983) — Eric
16. Hidden Diary (2009) — Gilles
17. Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme (2002) — Carlo Conti
18. The Feelings Factory (2008) — Michel
19. Bordertown (1989) — Paul Dumont
20. Travelling avant (1987) — Young brawler
21. Silences d'état (2013) — Stéphane Ferran
22. The Wolf of the West Coast (2002) — Harry
23. The Invisible Woman (2009) — Paul
24. 9/12 (2024) — Arnaud
25. Stereo Girls (2026) — Pierre
26. On a volé Charlie Spencer ! (1986) — Le soldat américain du film
27. Near Mrs. (1992) — Techtronics guard #1
28. Amarres (2023)
29. The Ponzi Scheme (2014) — Banquier Chmelinski
30. Solitudes (2012) — Le capitaine de police
31. Public Security (1987)
32. Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010) — Detective
33. Les Danseurs du Mozambique (1992) — Le chasseur
34. New York 1935 (1988) — Un invité
35. Oostende (1991) — L'auto stoppeur
36. Venus & Apollo (2005)
37. Floodtide (1987) — TJ
38. Hemingway (1988)
39. Le Roi Lear (2007) — Edmund
40. Le monde qui nous perd (2015) — Avocat partie civile