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Gérard Watkins

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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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Gérard Watkins, né le 4 juillet 1965 à Londres, est un acteur, auteur, metteur en scène et musicien.

Gérard Watkins grandit en Norvège, aux États-Unis et vient en France en 1974. Il écrit sa première chanson en 1980, et sa première pièce un an plus tard.

Il travaille au théâtre comme acteur avec Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Berès, Jean-Claude Buchard, Élisabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frédéric Fisbach, Marc François, Cedric Gourmelon, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Jan Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, Guillaume Vincent, Jean-Pierre Vincent et, au cinéma, avec Julie Lopes-Curval, Jérôme Salle, Yann Samuell, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, Peter Watkins et Rebecca Zlotowski.

Depuis 1994, il est directeur artistique de sa compagnie, le Perdita Ensemble, pour laquelle il met en scène tous ses textes.

Ses textes ont été joués dans plusieurs lieux: Théâtre de Gennevilliers, L'Échangeur, Théâtre Gérard-Philipe de Saint-Denis, au Colombier, Ferme du Buisson, à la piscine municipale de Saint-Ouen, comète 347 au Théâtre de la Bastille, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Théâtre de la Tempête.

Source: Article "Gérard Watkins" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Gérard Watkins

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