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Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA winning critically acclaimed English actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent American films. In 2005, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film version of Closer.
Early life
Owen was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England, the fourth of five brothers. At the age of three, his father (a country and western singer) left the family. Owen was raised by his mother and his step-father. 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 in a class including both 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 Sarah-Jane Fenton while they were performing the title roles of Romeo and Juliet. They married in 1995, and have two daughters, Hannah and Eve. They lived in London before moving to Essex.
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 Channel 4 film called Close My Eyes, 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 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 called 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, 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 then appeared in Robert Altman's Gosford Park, alongside an all-star cast including Helen Mirren and Ryan Phillipe. 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. He took horse-riding lessons for the latter role.
He has since appeared in the comic book thriller Sin City as the noir antihero Dwight McCarthy; as a mysterious bank robber in Inside Man; as a reluctant rebel in a dystopian society in Children of Men; and as Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I in the film Golden Age.
He also appeared in the West End and Broadway hit play Closer, by Patrick Marber, which again became a film which was released in 2005, before he starred in Derailed alongside Jennifer Aniston.
He became well known to North American audiences after starring as The Driver in the BMW films. Despite public denials, Owen had long been rumoured 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 2006 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" (another character in the film quips that Owen's character is "one short of the big time").
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
Year Film Role Notes
1988 Vroom Jake
1989 Precious Bane Gideon Sarn TV movie
1990 Chancer Stephen Crane/Derek Love TV series
Lorna Doone John Ridd TV movie
1991 Close My Eyes Richard
1993 Class of '61 Devin O'Neil TV movie
Century Paul Reisner
The Magician Det. Con. George Byrne TV movie
1994 The Return of the Native Damon Wildeve TV movie
Doomsday Gun Dov TV movie
An Evening with Gary Lineker Bill TV movie
Nobody's Children Bratu TV movie
The Tournaround Nick Sharman
1995 Bad Boy Blues Paul TV movie
1996 Privateer 2: The Darkening Ser Lev Aris Videogame
The Rich Man's Wife Jake Golden
"Sharman" Nick Sharman TV series
1997 Croupier Jack Manfred
Bent Max
1998 The Echo Michael Deacon TV movie
1999 Split Second Michael Anderson TV movie
Second Sight DCI Ross Tanner TV movie
2000 Greenfingers Colin Briggs
Second Sight: Kingdom of the Blind DCI Ross Tanner TV movie
Second Sight: Parasomnia DCI Ross Tanner TV movie
Second Sight: Hide and Seek DCI Ross Tanner TV movie
2001 The Hire The Driver
Gosford Park Robert Parks
Walk On By Narrator TV documentary
2002 The Bourne Identity The Sharpshooter
2003 Beyond Borders Nick Callahan
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Will
2004 Closer Larry
King Arthur Arthur
2005 Derailed Charles Schine
Sin City Dwight McCarthy
2006 Children of Men Theodore Faron
Inside Man Dalton Russell
The Pink Panther Nigel Boswell/Agent 006 Uncredited
2007 Sin City 2 Dwight McCarthy Pre-production
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Sir Walter Raleigh Filming
Shoot 'em Up Mr. Smith Post-production
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