Gérard Watkins
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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.
Known for
Credits
Taken (2008)
as Patrice Saint-Clair
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)
as Cattaneo
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
as Doctor Cocheton
Love Me If You Dare (2003)
as Julien's Father
The Odyssey (2016)
as Le maître de cérémonie
The Accusation (2021)
as L'avocat général
The Returned (2004)
as Le fils du maire
Colt 45 (2014)
as Calhoun
Normandy Nude (2018)
as Volker
Stereo Girls (2026)
as Pierre
Oostende (1991)
as L'auto stoppeur
Our Brothers (2022)
as Le directeur de l'IGS
Hidden Diary (2009)
as Gilles
Amarres (2023)
Actor
Going South (2009)
as Le père
On a volé Charlie Spencer ! (1986)
as Le soldat américain du film
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
as Gérard Bourlet
The Invisible Woman (2009)
as Paul
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010)
as Detective
Le Roi Lear (2007)
as Edmund
Near Mrs. (1992)
as Techtronics guard #1
Solitudes (2012)
as Le capitaine de police
Silences d'état (2013)
as Stéphane Ferran
The Feelings Factory (2008)
as Michel
The Ponzi Scheme (2014)
as Banquier Chmelinski
Les Danseurs du Mozambique (1992)
as Le chasseur
The Wolf of the West Coast (2002)
as Harry
Je me fais rare (2006)
as Acteur 1
Public Security (1987)
Actor
New York 1935 (1988)
as Un invité
Travelling avant (1987)
as Young brawler
Le monde qui nous perd (2015)
as Avocat partie civile