Acting credits
37
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Gérard Watkins
Acting
Career Snapshot
ExplainedThese indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.
TMDB popularity
0.7
Low visibility
TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.
Movies: 26Series: 11
TMDB ID: 49947
IMDb ID: nm0914313
Known for: Acting
Born: July 4, 1965
Age: 60
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1983 - 2026
Years active: 44
Average TMDB rating: 6.37
Wikidata: Q5626030
Also known as
Gerard Watkins • Gerald Watkins
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Gérard Watkins.
5.5
Stereo Girls
2026 Movie
1.0
Amarres
2023 Movie
6.2
Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGS
2022 Movie
7.1
The Accusation
as L'avocat général
2021 Movie
5.6
Normandy Nude
as Volker
2018 Movie
6.6
The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonie
2016 Movie
5.6
Colt 45
as Calhoun
2014 Movie
7.8
The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier Chmelinski
2014 Movie
5.5
Silences d'état
as Stéphane Ferran
2013 Movie
5.7
Going South
as Le père
2009 Movie
6.0
Hidden Diary
as Gilles
2009 Movie
3.8
The Invisible Woman
as Paul
2009 Movie
6.0
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Cattaneo
2008 Movie
7.4
Taken
as Patrice Saint-Clair
2008 Movie
4.5
The Feelings Factory
as Michel
2008 Movie
7.6
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor Cocheton
2007 Movie
Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1
2006 Movie
5.6
The Returned
as Le fils du maire
2004 Movie
7.2
Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's Father
2003 Movie
7.6
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet
2003 Movie
3.8
The Wolf of the West Coast
as Harry
2002 Movie
Les Danseurs du Mozambique
as Le chasseur
1992 Movie
5.5
Near Mrs.
as Techtronics guard #1
1992 Movie
4.0
Travelling avant
as Young brawler
1987 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Gérard Watkins.
7.9
9/12
as Arnaud • 4 eps
2024 Series
7.5
Marie Antoinette
as Duc de Choiseul • 2 eps
2022 Series
Les Châtaigniers du désert
as Révérend Le Sage • 2 eps
2010 Series
Venus & Apollo
8 eps
2005 Series
4.7
Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
as Carlo Conti
2002 Series
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard Bourlet • 2 eps
2000 Series
6.5
Bordertown
as Paul Dumont • 1 eps
1989 Series
Hemingway
4 eps
1988 Series
Floodtide
as TJ • 6 eps
1987 Series
4.1
EastEnders
as Gendarme • 1 eps
1985 Series
6.1
The Hitchhiker
as Eric • 1 eps
1983 Series