Gérard Watkins
Actor
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.
Filmography
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father 2003
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton 2007
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo 2008
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie 2016
The Accusation
as L'avocat général 2021
Colt 45
as Calhoun 2014
Normandy Nude
as Volker 2018
The Returned
as Le fils du maire 2004
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS 2022
Going South
as Le père 2009
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet 2003
Hidden Diary
as Gilles 2009
The Feelings Factory
as Michel 2008
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran 2013
Travelling avant
as Young brawler 1987
The Invisible Woman
as Paul 2009