Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins is an EnglishFrench 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 JeanClaude Buchard Elizabeth Chailloux Michel Didym André Engel Frederic Fisbach Marc François Daniel Jeanneteau Philipe Lanton JeanLouis Martinelli Lars Noren Claude Régy Yann Ritsema Bernard Sobel Viviane Theophilides and JeanPierre Vincent Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kanes 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 protagonists 17year 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 Dont Remember Very Well