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Clive Owen was born in Coventry, Warwickshire in 1965. After leaving school Clive was on the dole for two years before he won acceptance to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1984. After he graduated he joined the Young Vic Theatre Company, playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Claudio in Measure for Measure. He then went on to make a guest appearance in the TV series Boon in 1986. This was closely followed in 1988 with his first film Vroom in which he teamed up with David Thewlis and Diana Quick. It was also in 1988 that Clive appeared on TV screens for the first time in the BBC's adaptation of Precious Blane. This gave us a chance to see his darker side as a psychopath.
1994 was a very productive year for Clive with one film, The Turnaround, and four television appearances - Doomsday Gun; Nobody's Children; An Evening with Gary Lineker; and The Return of the Native for which he received high acclaim. In 1996 he starred as private investigator Nick Sharman in the series Sharman; and then returned to film in Privateer 2: The Darkening and Jake Golden in The Rich Man's Wife. In 1997 Clive took on his most challenging film role to date, playing a concentration camp inmate in Bent with Ian McKellan. In the same year he also appeared on the London stage in Closer. This was followed in 1998 by his role as Jack Manfred in Croupier; and as Michael Deacon in the TV drama The Echo with Joely Richardson. Clive's most recent work in 1999 has been Colin Briggs in the film Green Fingers; as businessman Michael Anderson whose life falls apart after he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the TV drama Split Second; and DCI Ross Tanner in the TV series Second Sight. Clive is
married to actress Sarah-Jane Fenton (who was last seen in A Good
Man in Africa - 1994), and they have a two-year-old daughter, Hannah,
with a second child due soon. Clive and Sarah-Jane met on stage playing
Romeo and Juliet. Information
above from Linda
Green's Theater and Film Pages Q: Do you remember when you first heard about Privateer 2: The Darkening? A: "I got a call from my agent. He said, 'Clive, you've been offered a role in a computer game.' My initial reaction was, 'What are you talking about?' I was very skeptical. As I learned more, I decided it was very exciting. I liked the script and was interested in becoming involved." Q: Do you have any experience with computer games? A: "I'm computer illiterate, but I've seen a bit of Wing Commander. I feel like I don't need to know a lot about the computer side of it because it's just like shooting any other movie." Clive Owen previously collaborated with Sean Mathias in his stylish revival of Noel Coward's DESIGN FOR LIVING at London's Donmar Warehouse, starring alongside Paul Rhys and Rachel Weisz. The production gamered excellent reviews and played to capacity audiences. His performance in A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE EGG also excited the critics. Owen has recently completed his first American film THE RICH MAN'S WIFE, directed by Amy Jones, but first came to notice in the UK TV series CHANGER. In 1996 he starred on UK TV in four 90 minute episodes of SHARMAN, a Cariton TV drama about a south London ex-policeman private eye. On film, Owen has twice been directed by Steven Poliakoff, in the historical drama CENTURY, starring alongside Miranda Richardson and Charles Dance, and in CLOSE MY EYES, the claustrophobic examination of an incestuous relationship, with co-stars Alan Rickman and Saskia Reeves. Most recently, Owen completed filming on Mike Hodges' CROUPIER, a thriller set in London's gambling world. Clive
can be contacted by writing: Image of Clive as Clive above thanks to Chris L. |
Clive Owen Biography
It
was in 1990 that Clive appeared on our screens in a more heroic role
as Stephen Crane in Chancer, alongside Sean Pertwee. In the same year
he also appeared on TV in Lorna Doone. 1991 saw Clive in another film,
Close My Eyes, in which he played an ambitious businessman who is
seduced by his older sister, Saskia Reeves, and then become obsessed.
This was followed in 1993 by another film, Century, in which Clive
played a Jewish doctor opposite Charles Dance. He also appeared on
television this year in The Magician, and Class of '61 as an Irish
graduate of West Point who goes off to fight in the Civil War. 