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.
2024
as Arnaud
2023
2022
as Le directeur de l'IGS
2022
as Duc de Choiseul
2021
as L'avocat général
2018
as Volker
2016
as Le maître de cérémonie
2015
as Avocat partie civile
2014
as Calhoun
2014
as Banquier Chmelinski
2013
as Stéphane Ferran
2012
as Le capitaine de police
2010
as Révérend Le Sage
2010
as Detective
2009
as Le père
2009
as Gilles
2009
as Paul
2008
as Cattaneo
2008
as Patrice Saint-Clair
2008
as Michel
2007
as Edmund
2007
as Doctor Cocheton
2006
as Acteur 1
2005
2004
as Le fils du maire
2003
as Julien's Father
2003
as Gérard Bourlet
2002
as Carlo Conti
2002
as Harry
2000
as Gérard Bourlet
1992
as Le chasseur
1992
as Techtronics guard #1
1989
as Paul Dumont
1988
as Un invité
1988
1987
as Young brawler
1987
1987
as TJ
1986
as Le soldat américain du film
1985
as Gendarme
1983
as Eric