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Aliases: Gerard Watkins , Gerald Watkins
Gender: Male
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Homepage: https://www.aartis.fr/artiste.cfm/26039_115_2-G%C3%A9rard_Watkins.html
Movie Involvements: 21
TV Involvements: 8
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
EastEnders
(1985) GendarmeTaken
(2008) Patrice Saint-ClairMarie Antoinette
(2022) Duc de ChoiseulThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007) Doctor CochetonAlice Nevers, le juge est une femme
(2002) Carlo ContiThe Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
(2008) CattaneoThe Hitchhiker
(1983) EricBordertown
(1989) Paul DumontActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2023 | N/A | |
2022 | Le directeur de l'IGS | |
Duc de Choiseul | ||
2021 | L'avocat général | |
2018 | Volker | |
2016 | Le maître de cérémonie | |
2015 | Avocat partie civile | |
2014 | Calhoun | |
Banquier Chmelinski | ||
2013 | Stéphane Ferran | |
2012 | Le capitaine de police | |
2010 | Révérend Le Sage | |
Detective | ||
2009 | Le père | |
Gilles | ||
Paul | ||
2008 | Cattaneo | |
Patrice Saint-Clair | ||
Michel | ||
2007 | Edmund | |
Doctor Cocheton | ||
2006 | Acteur 1 | |
2004 | Le fils du maire | |
2003 | Julien's Father | |
Gérard Bourlet | ||
2002 | Carlo Conti | |
Harry | ||
1992 | Le chasseur | |
Techtronics guard #1 | ||
1989 | Paul Dumont | |
1988 | Un invité | |
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1987 | N/A | |
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1986 | Le soldat américain du film | |
1985 | Gendarme | |
1983 | Eric | |
N/A | ||
TJ | ||
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