Gérard Watkins
Date of birth: 1965-07-04
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Gerard Watkins, Gerald Watkins
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.
Movie Credits
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007-05-23
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok
Taken
2008-02-18
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. Af
The Accusation
2021-12-01
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist kno
Amarres
2023-02-03
This summer, Livia returns to spend a few days in the family apiary. Louis, her elusive and brillian
Silences d'état
2013-05-16
Our Brothers
2022-12-07
Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have cau
Love Me If You Dare
2003-09-17
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearle
The Ponzi Scheme
2014-02-14
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inv
Colt 45
2014-08-06
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat sho
Stereo Girls
2026-02-11
1992, South of France. Charlotte and Liza, both 17, are inseparable. Together, they dream of music a
Hidden Diary
2009-10-07
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard fro
Public Security
1987-06-17
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lac
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008-12-17
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy,
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986-12-24
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in t
Going South
2009-12-30
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and
The Feelings Factory
2008-02-06
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a
Le Roi Lear
2007-09-19
Le monde qui nous perd
2015-10-09
Je me fais rare
2006-06-28
Daniel, a filmmaker is convinced that cinema is dying as an art form, and thinks he is a new Don Qui
The Invisible Woman
2009-07-22
Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she mi
The Odyssey
2016-10-12
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmak
Solitudes
2012-09-20
One night, an interpreter translates a Romanian prostitute's testimony.
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
2010-05-20
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Sl
The Wolf of the West Coast
2002-08-27
James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodygua
Travelling avant
1987-08-19
Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators.
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
1992-06-11
A novelist finds herself in an auction where two statuettes are up for sale: "The Mozambique Dancers
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003-07-03
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official v
New York 1935
1988-10-01
Maria is twelve, plump and clumsy. Her sister Jackie is the exact opposite and it is her 18th birthd
Near Mrs.
1992-01-08
A philandering executive tries to juggle two wives and a mistress, and finds himself suddenly being
The Returned
2004-10-27
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead in
Normandy Nude
2018-01-10
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard,