Years active 1980–present Name Gerard Watkins | Role Actor Siblings Patrick Watkins | |
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Born 4 July 1965 (age 58) ( 1965-07-04 ) London, England, UK Occupation Actor, Playwright, Director, Songwriter Parents Peter Watkins, Francoise Watkins Movies Love Me If You Dare, Taken, The Diving Bell and the Butter, Largo Winch, Going South Similar People Yann Samuell, Peter Watkins, Pierre Morel, Hugo Santiago, Julie Lopes‑Curval | ||
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Gérard Watkins (born 4 July 1965) is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter.
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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 Lopes-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 (Replay), and I Don't Remember Very Well.
He is fluent in both English and French.
He haw been awards Grand Prix de Litterature Dramatique in 2010 for his play Identity.
