Gender
Male
Birthday, Age
1965 July 04 (60 years old)
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,

Known For

Actor ( 1 )

Full Filmography

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
Movie • 2007-05-23
Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
Movie • 2008-02-18
The Accusation
as L'avocat général
Movie • 2021-12-01
Amarres
Movie • 2023-02-03
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
Movie • 2013-05-16
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
Movie • 2022-12-07
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
Movie • 2003-09-17
The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier Chmelinski
Movie • 2014-02-14
Colt 45
as Calhoun
Movie • 2014-08-06
Hidden Diary
as Gilles
Movie • 2009-10-07
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
Movie • 2008-12-17
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
as Le soldat américain du film
Movie • 1986-12-24
Public Security
Movie • 1987-06-17
The Feelings Factory
as Michel
Movie • 2008-02-06
Le Roi Lear
as Edmund
Movie • 2007-09-19
Solitudes
as Le capitaine de police
Movie • 2012-09-20
The Invisible Woman
as Paul
Movie • 2009-07-22
The Returned
as Le fils du maire
Movie • 2004-10-27
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
Movie • 2003-07-03
New York 1935
as Un invité
Movie • 1988-10-01
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie
Movie • 2016-10-12
Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1
Movie • 2006-06-28
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Le chasseur
Movie • 1992-06-11
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
as Detective
Movie • 2010-05-20
Going South
as Le père
Movie • 2009-12-30
Near Mrs.
as Techtronics guard #1
Movie • 1992-01-08
Le monde qui nous perd
as Avocat partie civile
Movie • 2015-10-09
The Wolf of the West Coast
as Harry
Movie • 2002-08-27
Travelling avant
as Young brawler
Movie • 1987-08-19
Normandy Nude
as Volker
Movie • 2018-01-10
The Hitchhiker
as Eric
Tv • 1983-11-01
Marie Antoinette
as Duc de Choiseul
Tv • 2022-10-31
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
as Carlo Conti
Tv • 2002-09-02
Les Châtaigniers du désert
as Révérend Le Sage
Tv • 2010-11-13
Venus & Apollo
Tv • 2005-10-03
EastEnders
as Gendarme
Tv • 1985-02-19
Bordertown
as Paul Dumont
Tv • 1989-01-07
Floodtide
as TJ
Tv • 1987-06-14
Hemingway
Tv • 1988-04-25
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
Tv • 2000-05-26
Citoyens clandestins
as Arnaud
Tv • 2024-03-21