Born
4 July 1965 (60)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
Gerard Watkins, Gerald Watkins
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 ...
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.
Stereo Girls
2026
Amarres
2023
Our Brothers
2022
The Accusation
2021
Normandy Nude
2018
The Odyssey
2016
Le monde qui nous perd
2015
Colt 45
2014
The Ponzi Scheme
2014
Silences d'état
2013
Solitudes
2012
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010
Going South
2009
Hidden Diary
2009
The Invisible Woman
2009
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008
Taken
2008
The Feelings Factory
2008
Le Roi Lear
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
Je me fais rare
2006
The Returned
2004
Love Me If You Dare
2003
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003
The Wolf of the West Coast
2002
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992
Near Mrs.
1992
New York 1935
1988
Travelling avant
1987
Public Security
1987
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986