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Gérard Watkins
Actor
Born July 4, 1965 (57 years)
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
| 2021 | The Accusation · as L'avocat général |
| 2021 | HPI (TV Series) · as Docteur Lacombe |
| 2019 | Savages (TV Series) · as Serge Lamiel |
| 2018 | Naked Normandy · as Volker |
| 2016 | The Odyssey · as Le maître de cérémonie |
| 2015 | The Bureau (TV Series) · as Lionel |
| 2014 | Colt 45 · as Calhoun |
| 2013 | Death in the Shadow of State · as Stéphane Ferran |
| 2012 | Solitudes · as Le capitaine de police |
| 2009 | Profiling (TV Series) · as Gilles Lasserre |
| 2009 | Going South · as Le père |
| 2009 | Hidden Diary · as Gilles |
| 2008 | Taken · as Patrice Saint-Clair |
| 2008 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch · as Cattaneo |
| 2008 | The Feelings Factory · as Michel |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly · as Doctor Cocheton |
| 2006 | Je me fais rare · as Acteur 1 |
| 2005 | Venus et Apollon (TV Series) · as - |
| 2004 | They Came Back · as Le fils du maire |
| 2003 | Love Me If You Dare · as Julien's Father |
| 2000 | La Commune (Paris, 1871) · as Gérard Bourlet |
| 1993 | Alice Nevers (TV Series) · as Carlo Conti |
| 1992 | Near Mrs. · as Techtronics guard #1 |
| 1989 | Bordertown (TV Series) · as Paul Dumont |
| 1985 | EastEnders (TV Series) · as Gendarme |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker (TV Series) · as Eric |