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Clive Owen

Clive OwenBorn: 3-Oct-1964
Birthplace: Keresley, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Bourne Identity assassin

When a teacher asked students their plans for the future, Owen announced he wanted to be an actor. As Owen tells it, his teacher then encouraged classmates to laugh at him. Upon graduation from high school, Owen applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and was rejected. He spent two years collecting unemployment, occasionally working as a housecleaner, and acting in local productions when he could, before applying again and being accepted by the Royal Academy. In 1988, he joined the Young Vic, and played Romeo in a stage production of Romeo & Juliet, and married Sarah-Jane Fenton, who played Juliet.

His first film was Vroom in 1988, and later starred as Ross Tanner, a cop with a virus that affects his vision, in the BBC series Second Sight. He came to stateside awareness in The Croupier, a British film that flopped in Britain in 1998, but found appreciative art-house audiences in America a year and a half later. He was the assassin in The Bourne Identity, and played a valet in Robert Altman's ensemble piece Gosford Park. He has played gay in Bent, bisexual in Noel Coward's play Design for Living, and had an affair with his sister in Close My Eyes.

Father: (country/western singer)
Brother: Alan
Brother: Lee
Wife: Sarah-Jane Fenton (m. 1995)
Daughter: Hannah
Daughter: Eve

    University: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1987)

    Golden Globe 2005 for Closer
    Endorsement of Lancôme 2007

    TELEVISION
    Chancer Derek Love (1990-91)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Anon (3-May-2018)
    Ophelia (22-Jan-2018)
    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (17-Jul-2017)
    Last Knights (3-Apr-2015)
    Words and Pictures (7-Sep-2013)
    Blood Ties (20-May-2013)
    Hemingway & Gellhorn (25-May-2012) · Ernest Hemingway
    Shadow Dancer (24-Jan-2012)
    Intruders (12-Sep-2011)
    Killer Elite (10-Sep-2011)
    Trust (10-Sep-2010) · Will
    The Boys Are Back (15-Sep-2009) · Joe Warr
    Duplicity (18-Mar-2009)
    The International (5-Feb-2009)
    Elizabeth: The Golden Age (9-Sep-2007) · Sir Walter Raleigh
    Shoot 'Em Up (26-Jul-2007)
    Children of Men (3-Sep-2006)
    Inside Man (16-May-2006)
    Derailed (11-Nov-2005)
    Sin City (1-Apr-2005)
    Closer (3-Dec-2004) · Larry
    King Arthur (28-Jun-2004)
    Beyond Borders (24-Oct-2003) · Nick Callahan
    I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (16-May-2003)
    The Hire: Ticker (7-Nov-2002)
    The Bourne Identity (6-Jun-2002) · The Professor
    Gosford Park (7-Nov-2001) · Robert Parks
    Greenfingers (10-Sep-2000) · Colin Briggs
    Second Sight (30-Sep-1999)
    Croupier (25-Jun-1998)
    Bent (May-1997) · Max
    The Rich Man's Wife (13-Sep-1996) · Jake Golden
    The Return of the Native (4-Dec-1994)
    Doomsday Gun (23-Jul-1994)
    Century (31-Dec-1993)
    Close My Eyes (11-Oct-1991)
    Vroom (1988)


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