Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

1965-07-04

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.

Also appears in

Taken

Taken

7.4

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

6.1

Love Me If You Dare

Love Me If You Dare

7.2

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

7.6

Colt 45

Colt 45

5.7

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

6.7

Normandy Nude

Normandy Nude

5.6

The Accusation

The Accusation

7.1

Our Brothers

Our Brothers

6.6

The Returned

The Returned

5.5

Going South

Going South

5.8

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

7.6

The Feelings Factory

The Feelings Factory

4.9

The Wolf of the West Coast

The Wolf of the West Coast

4.4

Hidden Diary

Hidden Diary

5.9

The Ponzi Scheme

The Ponzi Scheme

7.8

Travelling avant

Travelling avant

4.2

Silences d’état

Silences d’état

5.5

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)

10.0

Public Security

Public Security

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