Clive Owen was born on 3 October 1964 and is an English actor.
28 Facts About Clive Owen
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Clive Owen first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991.
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Clive Owen received critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyes before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier.
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Clive Owen was born on 3 October 1964 in Keresley, Coventry, the fourth of five sons born to Pamela and Jess Owen.
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Clive Owen won critical acclaim for his performances in the Stephen Poliakoff film Close My Eyes about a brother and sister who embark on an incestuous love affair.
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Clive Owen subsequently appeared in The Magician, Class of '61, Century, Nobody's Children, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Doomsday Gun, Return of the Native and a Carlton production called Sharman, about a private detective.
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Clive Owen starred in The Echo, a BBC1 drama, before starring in the film Greenfingers, about a criminal who goes to work in a garden.
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Clive Owen appeared in the BBC1 mystery series Second Sight.
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Clive Owen became known to North American audiences in the summer of 2001 after starring as "The Driver" in The Hire, a series of short films sponsored by BMW and made by prominent directors.
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Clive Owen appeared in the 2002 film The Bourne Identity.
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Clive Owen starred in Beyond Borders as well as King Arthur in King Arthur, for which he learned to ride a horse.
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Clive Owen appeared in the Royal National Theatre debut of the hit play Closer, by Patrick Marber, which was produced as a film in 2004.
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Clive Owen played Dan in the play, and played Larry in the film version.
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In 2006, Clive Owen spoofed the Bond connection by making an appearance in the remake of The Pink Panther in which he plays a character named "Nigel Boswell, Agent 006".
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The film was nominated for various awards, including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Clive Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uncredited.
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Clive Owen appeared in the Christmas special of the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant show Extras.
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Clive Owen starred in The International, a film which he described as a "paranoid political thriller".
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Clive Owen played the lead in The Boys Are Back, an Australian adaptation of the book The Boys Are Back in Town by Simon Carr.
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Clive Owen starred in the film Blood Ties, directed by Guillaume Canet, alongside French actress Marion Cotillard.
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In 2015, Clive Owen made his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter's Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre.
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Clive Owen was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2016 Berlin Film Festival.
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In October 2017, Owen returned to Broadway as Rene Gallimard in a revival of David Henry Hwang's M Butterfly at the Cort Theatre in New York City.
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In 2019, Owen played the role of the defrocked Reverend T Lawrence Shannon in the West End theatre production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana at the Noel Coward Theatre.
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Clive Owen is playing Bill Clinton in the miniseries Impeachment: American Crime Story.
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Clive Owen met his wife, Sarah-Jane Fenton, in 1988, when they were both taking part in a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
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Clive Owen became patron of the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich, Essex, and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the historic building.
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Clive Owen is a supporter of Liverpool FC and narrated the fly on the wall documentary series Being: Liverpool.
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Clive Owen has received multiple nominations for his work in both film and television.