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.
32 movies · 11 shows
Stereo Girls
2026·5.8
Amarres
2023·1.0
Our Brothers
2022·6.2
The Accusation
2021·7.1
Normandy Nude
2018·5.6
The Odyssey
2016·6.6
Le monde qui nous perd
2015·0.0
Colt 45
2014·5.7
The Ponzi Scheme
2014·7.8
Silences d'état
2013·5.5
Solitudes
2012·1.0
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010·10.0
Going South
2009·5.7
Hidden Diary
2009·6.2
The Invisible Woman
2009·3.8
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008·6.0
Taken
2008·7.4
The Feelings Factory
2008·4.5
Le Roi Lear
2007·0.0
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007·7.6
Je me fais rare
2006·0.0
The Returned
2004·5.5
Love Me If You Dare
2003·7.2
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003·7.5
The Wolf of the West Coast
2002·4.7
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992·7.0
Near Mrs.
1992·6.0
Oostende
1991·9.0
New York 1935
1988·10.0
Travelling avant
1987·4.5
Public Security
1987·10.0
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986·4.7