Acting · London, England, UK · Born July 4, 1965
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.
MovieStereo Girls
2026
as Pierre
TV9/12
2024
as Arnaud
MovieAmarres
2023
MovieOur Brothers
2022
as Le directeur de l'IGS
TVMarie Antoinette
2022
as Duc de Choiseul
MovieThe Accusation
2021
as L'avocat général
MovieNormandy Nude
2018
as Volker
MovieThe Odyssey
2016
as Le maître de cérémonie
Le monde qui nous perd
2015
as Avocat partie civile
MovieColt 45
2014
as Calhoun
MovieThe Ponzi Scheme
2014
as Banquier Chmelinski
MovieSilences d'état
2013
as Stéphane Ferran
Solitudes
2012
as Le capitaine de police
TVLes Châtaigniers du désert
2010
as Révérend Le Sage
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010
as Detective
MovieGoing South
2009
as Le père
MovieHidden Diary
2009
as Gilles
MovieThe Invisible Woman
2009
as Paul
MovieThe Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008
as Cattaneo
MovieTaken
2008
as Patrice Saint-Clair
MovieThe Feelings Factory
2008
as Michel
Le Roi Lear
2007
as Edmund
MovieThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
as Doctor Cocheton
MovieJe me fais rare
2006
as Acteur 1
TVVenus & Apollo
2005
MovieThe Returned
2004
as Le fils du maire
MovieLove Me If You Dare
2003
as Julien's Father
MovieLa Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003
as Gérard Bourlet
TVAlice Nevers, le juge est une femme
2002
as Carlo Conti
MovieThe Wolf of the West Coast
2002
as Harry
TVLa Commune (Paris, 1871)
2000
as Gérard Bourlet
MovieLes Danseurs du Mozambique
1992
as Le chasseur
MovieNear Mrs.
1992
as Techtronics guard #1
MovieOostende
1991
as L'auto stoppeur
TVBordertown
1989
as Paul Dumont
New York 1935
1988
as Un invité
TVHemingway
1988
MovieTravelling avant
1987
as Young brawler
MoviePublic Security
1987
TVFloodtide
1987
as TJ
MovieOn a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986
as Le soldat américain du film
TVEastEnders
1985
as Gendarme
TVThe Hitchhiker
1983
as Eric
