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Gérard Watkins
London, England, UK
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 Véroni…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Stereo Girls
Movie Pierre
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2024
9/12
TV show Arnaud
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2023
Amarres
Movie
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2022
Our Brothers
Movie Le directeur de l'IGS
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2022
Marie Antoinette
TV show Duc de Choiseul
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2021
The Accusation
Movie L'avocat général
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2018
Normandy Nude
Movie Volker
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2016
The Odyssey
Movie Le maître de cérémonie
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2015
Le monde qui nous perd
Movie Avocat partie civile
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2014
Colt 45
Movie Calhoun
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2014
The Ponzi Scheme
Movie Banquier Chmelinski
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2013
Silences d'état
Movie Stéphane Ferran
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2012
Solitudes
Movie Le capitaine de police
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2010
Les Châtaigniers du désert
TV show Révérend Le Sage
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2010
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Movie Detective
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2009
Going South
Movie Le père
More credits
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2009
Hidden Diary
Movie Gilles
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2009
The Invisible Woman
Movie Paul
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2008
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Movie Cattaneo
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2008
Taken
Movie Patrice Saint-Clair
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2008
The Feelings Factory
Movie Michel
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2007
Le Roi Lear
Movie Edmund
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2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie Doctor Cocheton
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2006
Je me fais rare
Movie Acteur 1
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2005
Venus & Apollo
TV show
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2004
The Returned
Movie Le fils du maire
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2003
Love Me If You Dare
Movie Julien's Father
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2003
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Movie Gérard Bourlet
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2002
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
TV show Carlo Conti
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2002
The Wolf of the West Coast
Movie Harry
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2000
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
TV show Gérard Bourlet
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1992
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Movie Le chasseur
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1992
Near Mrs.
Movie Techtronics guard #1
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1991
Oostende
Movie L'auto stoppeur
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1989
Bordertown
TV show Paul Dumont
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1988
New York 1935
Movie Un invité
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1988
Hemingway
TV show
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1987
Travelling avant
Movie Young brawler
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1987
Public Security
Movie
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1987
Floodtide
TV show TJ
