
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.

EastEnders
TV • 1985

The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983

Taken
MOVIE • 2008

Bordertown
TV • 1989

Marie Antoinette
TV • 2022

Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
TV • 2002

Hemingway
TV • 1988

9/12
TV • 2024

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
MOVIE • 2008

The Odyssey
MOVIE • 2016

Venus & Apollo
TV • 2005

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
MOVIE • 2007

Our Brothers
MOVIE • 2022

Love Me If You Dare
MOVIE • 2003

Colt 45
MOVIE • 2014

Hidden Diary
MOVIE • 2009

The Returned
MOVIE • 2004

On a volé Charlie Spencer !
MOVIE • 1986