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Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

Known For Acting
Birthday Jul 04, 1965 (60)
Birthplace London, England, UK
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 03, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Filmography

Taken

Taken

2008

as Patrice Saint-Clair

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2007

as Doctor Cocheton

Near Mrs.

Near Mrs.

1992

as Techtronics guard #1

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Floodtide

as TJ

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jun 14, 1987

Citoyens clandestins

as Arnaud

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Mar 21, 2024

Marie Antoinette

as Duc de Choiseul

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Oct 31, 2022

Les Châtaigniers du désert

as Révérend Le Sage

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Nov 13, 2010

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

as Gérard Bourlet

Episodes: 2

First Aired: May 26, 2000

The Hitchhiker

as Eric

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 01, 1983

EastEnders

as Gendarme

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 19, 1985

Bordertown

as Paul Dumont

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 07, 1989

Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme

as Carlo Conti

Episodes: 0

First Aired: Sep 02, 2002

Venus & Apollo

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Oct 03, 2005

Hemingway

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Apr 25, 1988

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