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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
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4

EastEnders

(1985) Gendarme
Taken
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7

Taken

(2008) Patrice Saint-Clair
Marie Antoinette
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8

Marie Antoinette

(2022) Duc de Choiseul
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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8

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

(2007) Doctor Cocheton
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
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5
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
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6
The Hitchhiker
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6

The Hitchhiker

(1983) Eric
Bordertown
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7

Bordertown

(1989) Paul Dumont

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
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
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TJ
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Year Character Movie/Tv

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