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{{Infobox actor| name = Clive Owen| image = Clive Owen 2006.jpg| imagesize =| caption = Clive Owen at the
Children of Men premiere in 2006],
Coventry,
West Midlands (county), England
2005
[Closer]
2005
Closer]
2001
Gosford Park-->
Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is a
Golden Globe- and BAFTA-award winning
England actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent United States films.
Biography
Early life
Fourth of five brothers, Owen was born in
Coventry, West Midlands (county),
England, the son of Pamela and Jess Owen.http://www.tv-now.com/stars/cliveow.html His father, a country music singer, left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was nineteen, the two have remained estranged. Raised by his mother and step-father, a
railway ticket clerk, he has described his childhood as "rough." While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work. Owen graduated from RADA in 1987 with a class that included Ralph Fiennes and Jane Horrocks. After graduation, he won a position at the Young Vic, performing in several William Shakespeare plays. In an incident he later described as "very schmaltzy," he met his future wife when the two performed the leads in
Romeo and Juliet.
Career
Initially, Owen carved out a career in television: in 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC television production of
Precious Bane and the Channel 4 film
Vroom before the
1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV series
Chancer followed by an appearance in the Thames Television production of
Lorna Doone.
He won critical acclaim for his performances in a 1991
Stephen Poliakoff film called
Close My Eyes (film), about a brother and sister who embark on an
incestuous love affair. Due to personal conflicts with the press, Owen decided not to appear in television programmes for a while. However, he subsequently appeared in
The Magician,
Class Of '61,
Century,
Nobody's Children,
An Evening With Gary Lineker,
Doomsday Gun,
Return Of The Native,
The Turnaround and then a Carlton production called
Sharman, about a private detective. In 1996 he appeared in his first major
Hollywood film
The Rich Man's Wife alongside
Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges called
Croupier (film) in
1998. He played the title role of a struggling writer who takes a job in a London casino as inspiration for his work, only to get caught up in a robbery scheme. In 1999 he appeared as an accident-prone driver in
Split Second, his first BBC production for a decade.
He then starred in
The Echo, a BBC1 drama. He also starred in a film called
Greenfingers about a criminal who goes to work in a garden, before appearing in the BBC1 mystery series
Second Sight (TV series), in which he played DCI Ross Tanner. In 2001 he provided the voice-over for a BBC2 documentary about popular music through the years called
Walk On By, as well as starring in a highly-acclaimed theatre production called
The Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.
He became well known to North American audiences in the summer of 2001 after starring as
The Driver in the The Hire. He then appeared in Robert Altman's
Gosford Park, alongside an all-star cast including
Helen Mirren and
Ryan Phillippe. He has also appeared in
The Bourne Identity, along with American actor
Matt Damon. In 2003 he starred in other films including Trevor Preston's
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and
Beyond Borders before taking on the title role in
King Arthur (film). He took horse-riding lessons for the latter role.
Owen appeared in the West End and Broadway hit play
Closer (play), by Patrick Marber, which again became a
Closer (film), and was released in 2005. It is interesting to note that he played "Dan" in the play, but was "Larry" the dermatologist in the film version. His blistering, darkly comic portrayal of Larry in the film version earned him a lot of recognition as well as the
Golden Globe and
BAFTA award and an Academy Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He noted that the expectations of him since the Oscars nomination have not changed the way he approaches film-making, stating "I try, every film I do, to be as good as I can and that's all I can do.
After
Closer, he appeared in
Derailed alongside
Jennifer Aniston, the
comic book Thriller (genre) Sin City (film) as the
noir antihero Dwight McCarthy and as a mysterious bank robber in
Inside Man. Despite public denials, Owen had long been rumored to be a possible successor to
Pierce Brosnan in the role of
James Bond. A public opinion poll in the United Kingdom in
October 2005 (SkyNews) found that he was the public's number one choice to star in the next installment of the series. In that same month, however, it was announced that British actor
Daniel Craig would become the next
James Bond. In an interview in the September 2007 issue of Details Magazine, he claimed that he was never offered or even approached concerning the role. In 2006, Owen spoofed the Bond connection by making an appearance in the remake of
The Pink Panther (2006 film) in which he plays a character named "Nigel Boswell, Agent 006" (when he introduces himself to
Inspector Clouseau he quips that Owen's character is "one short of the big time").
In 2006, Owen starred in the highly acclaimed
Children of Men. He received widespread praise for his role as the former political activist-turned-reluctant hero Theo Faron. The film was nominated for various awards including an
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uncredited. The next year he starred alongside
Paul Giamatti in the film
Shoot 'Em Up and appeared as Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I of England in the film
Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Owen will be appearing in the 2007 Christmas special of the
Ricky Gervais show
Extras (TV series), as revealed in the video podcast teaser.
Personal life
Owen lives in London with his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton and their two daughters, Hannah and Eve.
In November 2006, he became patron of the Electric Palace Cinema in
Harwich, England and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the fabric.
Filmography
{| class="wikitable"|-! Year !! Film !! Role !! Notes|-| 1988| Jake||-| [1989| Gideon Sarn| [Television movie|-|rowspan="2"|
1990| Stephen Crane/Derek Love| [TV series| John Ridd| [Television movie|-| 1991| Richard||-|rowspan="3"| [1993| Devin O'Neil| [Television movie|-|
Century (film)| Paul Reisner||-|
The Magician (1993 film)| Det. Con. George Byrne| Television movie|-|rowspan="5"|
1994| Damon Wildeve| [Television movie|-|
Doomsday Gun]|-|
An Evening with Gary Lineker]|-|
Nobody's Children (film)| Bratu|
Television movie|-|
The Turnaround]|
Bad Boy Blues (film)| Paul| Television movie|-|rowspan="3"|
1996| Ser Lev Aris| [Videogame| Jake Golden||-| [Sharman]|-|rowspan="2"| 1997| Jack Manfred||-|
[Bent (play)| Max||-| 1998| Michael Deacon| [Television movie|-|rowspan="2"| 1999| Michael Anderson| [Television movie|-|
Second Sight (TV series)| DCI Ross Tanner|
Television series| [Greenfingers]| DCI Ross Tanner|
Television series| DCI Ross Tanner| [Television series| DCI Ross Tanner| [Television series| [The Hire]|
Gosford Park#Servants||-|
Walk On By]|-|
2002| The Professor||-|rowspan="2"| [2003| Nick Callahan|-| [I'll Sleep When I'm Dead]|
Closer (film)| Larry|Academy Award Nomination|-|
King Arthur (film)|
King Arthur||-|rowspan="2"|
2005| Charles Schine||-| [Sin City (film)| Dwight McCarthy|
[Children of Men]||-|
Inside Man]| Nigel Boswell/Agent 006| Uncredited|-|rowspan="2"| [2007| [Sir Walter Raleigh| Mr. Smith||-|rowspan="2"| [2008| [Dwight McCarthy|||-|rowspan="1"| [2009|| Pre-production|-|}
References
External links
{{succession box| title=BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | before=[Bill Nighy
for
Love Actually]
for
Brokeback Mountain-->{{succession box]| years=2005
for Closer (film) | before=
Tim Robbinsfor
Mystic River (film)| after=George Clooney
for
Syriana-->
{{Infobox actor| name = Clive Owen| image = Clive Owen 2006.jpg| imagesize =| caption = Clive Owen at the
Children of Men premiere in 2006],
Coventry,
West Midlands (county),
England
2005 [Closer]
2005
Closer]
2001
Gosford Park-->
Clive Owen (born
October 3, 1964) is a Golden Globe- and
BAFTA-award winning
England actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent
United States films.
Biography
Early life
Fourth of five brothers, Owen was born in Coventry, West Midlands (county),
England, the son of Pamela and Jess Owen.http://www.tv-now.com/stars/cliveow.html His father, a
country music singer, left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was nineteen, the two have remained estranged. Raised by his mother and step-father, a
railway ticket clerk, he has described his childhood as "rough." While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work. Owen graduated from
RADA in 1987 with a class that included
Ralph Fiennes and Jane Horrocks. After graduation, he won a position at the
Young Vic, performing in several William Shakespeare plays. In an incident he later described as "very schmaltzy," he met his future wife when the two performed the leads in
Romeo and Juliet.
Career
Initially, Owen carved out a career in television: in 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC television production of
Precious Bane and the Channel 4 film
Vroom before the 1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV series
Chancer followed by an appearance in the Thames Television production of
Lorna Doone.
He won critical acclaim for his performances in a 1991 Stephen Poliakoff film called
Close My Eyes (film), about a brother and sister who embark on an
incestuous love affair. Due to personal conflicts with the press, Owen decided not to appear in television programmes for a while. However, he subsequently appeared in
The Magician,
Class Of '61,
Century,
Nobody's Children,
An Evening With Gary Lineker,
Doomsday Gun,
Return Of The Native,
The Turnaround and then a Carlton production called
Sharman, about a private detective. In 1996 he appeared in his first major
Hollywood film
The Rich Man's Wife alongside Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges called
Croupier (film) in 1998. He played the title role of a struggling writer who takes a job in a London casino as inspiration for his work, only to get caught up in a robbery scheme. In 1999 he appeared as an accident-prone driver in
Split Second, his first BBC production for a decade.
He then starred in
The Echo, a BBC1 drama. He also starred in a film called
Greenfingers about a criminal who goes to work in a garden, before appearing in the BBC1 mystery series
Second Sight (TV series), in which he played DCI Ross Tanner. In 2001 he provided the voice-over for a BBC2 documentary about popular music through the years called
Walk On By, as well as starring in a highly-acclaimed theatre production called
The Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.
He became well known to North American audiences in the summer of 2001 after starring as
The Driver in the The Hire. He then appeared in Robert Altman's
Gosford Park, alongside an all-star cast including
Helen Mirren and
Ryan Phillippe. He has also appeared in
The Bourne Identity, along with American actor
Matt Damon. In 2003 he starred in other films including Trevor Preston's
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and
Beyond Borders before taking on the title role in
King Arthur (film). He took horse-riding lessons for the latter role.
Owen appeared in the West End and Broadway hit play
Closer (play), by
Patrick Marber, which again became a Closer (film), and was released in 2005. It is interesting to note that he played "Dan" in the play, but was "Larry" the dermatologist in the film version. His blistering, darkly comic portrayal of Larry in the film version earned him a lot of recognition as well as the Golden Globe and BAFTA award and an Academy Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He noted that the expectations of him since the
Oscars nomination have not changed the way he approaches film-making, stating "I try, every film I do, to be as good as I can and that's all I can do.
After
Closer, he appeared in
Derailed alongside
Jennifer Aniston, the
comic book Thriller (genre) Sin City (film) as the noir
antihero Dwight McCarthy and as a mysterious bank robber in
Inside Man. Despite public denials, Owen had long been rumored to be a possible successor to Pierce Brosnan in the role of James Bond. A public opinion poll in the United Kingdom in October 2005 (SkyNews) found that he was the public's number one choice to star in the next installment of the series. In that same month, however, it was announced that British actor
Daniel Craig would become the next
James Bond. In an interview in the September 2007 issue of
Details Magazine, he claimed that he was never offered or even approached concerning the role. In 2006, Owen spoofed the Bond connection by making an appearance in the remake of
The Pink Panther (2006 film) in which he plays a character named "Nigel Boswell, Agent 006" (when he introduces himself to Inspector Clouseau he quips that Owen's character is "one short of the big time").
In 2006, Owen starred in the highly acclaimed
Children of Men. He received widespread praise for his role as the former political activist-turned-reluctant hero Theo Faron. The film was nominated for various awards including an
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uncredited. The next year he starred alongside
Paul Giamatti in the film
Shoot 'Em Up and appeared as
Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I of England in the film
Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Owen will be appearing in the 2007 Christmas special of the Ricky Gervais show Extras (TV series), as revealed in the video podcast teaser.
Personal life
Owen lives in London with his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton and their two daughters, Hannah and Eve.
In November 2006, he became patron of the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich,
England and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the fabric.
Filmography
{| class="wikitable"|-! Year !! Film !! Role !! Notes|-| 1988| Jake||-| [1989| Gideon Sarn| [Television movie|-|rowspan="2"| 1990| Stephen Crane/Derek Love| [TV series| John Ridd| [Television movie|-|
1991| Richard||-|rowspan="3"| [1993| Devin O'Neil| [Television movie|-|
Century (film)| Paul Reisner||-|
The Magician (1993 film)| Det. Con. George Byrne|
Television movie|-|rowspan="5"|
1994| Damon Wildeve| [Television movie|-|
Doomsday Gun]|-|
An Evening with Gary Lineker]|-|
Nobody's Children (film)| Bratu|
Television movie|-|
The Turnaround]|
Bad Boy Blues (film)| Paul| Television movie|-|rowspan="3"|
1996| Ser Lev Aris| [Videogame| Jake Golden||-| [Sharman]|-|rowspan="2"|
1997| Jack Manfred||-| [Bent (play)| Max||-|
1998| Michael Deacon| [Television movie|-|rowspan="2"|
1999| Michael Anderson| [Television movie|-|
Second Sight (TV series)| DCI Ross Tanner| Television series|
[Greenfingers]| DCI Ross Tanner| Television series| DCI Ross Tanner| [Television series| DCI Ross Tanner| [Television series|
[The Hire]| Gosford Park#Servants||-|
Walk On By]|-| 2002| The Professor||-|rowspan="2"| [2003| Nick Callahan|-|
[I'll Sleep When I'm Dead]|
Closer (film)| Larry|Academy Award Nomination|-|
King Arthur (film)|
King Arthur||-|rowspan="2"| 2005| Charles Schine||-|
[Sin City (film)|
Dwight McCarthy| [Children of Men]||-|
Inside Man]| Nigel Boswell/Agent 006| Uncredited|-|rowspan="2"| [2007| [Sir Walter Raleigh| Mr. Smith||-|rowspan="2"| [2008| [Dwight McCarthy|||-|rowspan="1"| [2009|| Pre-production|-|}
References
External links
{{succession box| title=BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role | before=[Bill Nighy
for
Love Actually]
for
Brokeback Mountain-->{{succession box]| years=2005
for Closer (film) | before=
Tim Robbinsfor
Mystic River (film)| after=
George Clooneyfor
Syriana-->
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