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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 4, 1965
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Gerard Watkins
- Gerald Watkins
Gérard Watkins
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Stereo Girls
2026
7.9
Arnaud
9/12
2024
1.0
Amarres
2023
6.3
Le directeur de l'IGS
Our Brothers
2022
7.5
Duc de Choiseul
Marie Antoinette
2022
7.1
L'avocat général
The Accusation
2021
5.6
Volker
Normandy Nude
2018
6.6
Le maître de cérémonie
The Odyssey
2016
🎬
0.0
Avocat partie civile
Le monde qui nous perd
2015
5.7
Calhoun
Colt 45
2014
Credits
Stereo Girls
2026
0.0
9/12
as Arnaud
2024
7.9
Amarres
2023
1.0
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
2022
6.3
Marie Antoinette
as Duc de Choiseul
2022
7.5
The Accusation
as L'avocat général
2021
7.1
Normandy Nude
as Volker
2018
5.6
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie
2016
6.6
🎬
Le monde qui nous perd
as Avocat partie civile
2015
0.0
Colt 45
as Calhoun
2014
5.7
The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier Chmelinski
2014
7.8
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
2013
5.5
🎬
Solitudes
as Le capitaine de police
2012
1.0
Les Châtaigniers du désert
as Révérend Le Sage
2010
0.0
🎬
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
as Detective
2010
10.0
Going South
as Le père
2009
5.7
Hidden Diary
as Gilles
2009
6.0
The Invisible Woman
as Paul
2009
3.8
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
2008
6.0
Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
2008
7.4
The Feelings Factory
as Michel
2008
4.5
🎬
Le Roi Lear
as Edmund
2007
0.0
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
2007
7.6
Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1
2006
0.0
Venus & Apollo
2005
0.0
The Returned
as Le fils du maire
2004
5.6
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
2003
7.2
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
2003
7.7
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
as Carlo Conti
2002
5.0
The Wolf of the West Coast
as Harry
2002
3.8
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
2000
0.0
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Le chasseur
1992
0.0
Near Mrs.
as Techtronics guard #1
1992
5.5
Bordertown
as Paul Dumont
1989
6.5
🎬
New York 1935
as Un invité
1988
0.0
Hemingway
1988
0.0
Travelling avant
as Young brawler
1987
4.0
Public Security
1987
0.0
Floodtide
as TJ
1987
0.0
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
as Le soldat américain du film
1986
2.0
EastEnders
as Gendarme
1985
4.1
The Hitchhiker
as Eric
1983
6.1