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.
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As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearle...
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We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official v...
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The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead in...
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...
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After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy,...
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In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and...
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Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Sl...
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The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmak...
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At the MĂȘle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard,...
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The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist kno...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Accusation (2021) | L'avocat général | - | - |
| 2 | Normandy Nude (2018) | Volker | - | - |
| 3 | The Odyssey (2016) | Le maßtre de cérémonie | - | - |
| 4 | Colt 45 (2014) | Calhoun | 1 | |
| 5 | Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (2010) | Detective | - | - |
| 6 | Going South (2009) | Le pĂšre | 6 | |
| 7 | Taken (2008) | Patrice Saint-Clair | 7.6 | |
| 8 | The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008) | Cattaneo | 5.4 | |
| 9 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Oscars 2008 | Doctor Cocheton | 6.8 | |
| 10 | The Returned (2004) | Le fils du maire | 5 | |
| 11 | Love Me If You Dare (2003) | Julien's Father | 7.4 | |
| 12 | La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003) | GĂ©rard Bourlet | - | - |
