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Owen became known to North American audiences in the summer of 2001 after starring as "The Driver" in ''
After ''Closer'', he appeared in '' Derailed'' alongside
Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the
production of ''ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
series '' Chancer'' from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film '' Close My Eyes'' (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in ''Croupier
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'' (1998). In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award
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and was nominated for an Academy Award
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for his performance in the drama '' Closer'' (2004).
Owen has played leading roles in films such as ''Sin City
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'' (2005), '' Derailed'' (2005), ''Inside Man
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'' (2006), '' Children of Men'' (2006), and '' The International'' (2009). In 2012, he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award
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nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role in ''Hemingway & Gellhorn
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''. He played Dr. John W. Thackery on the Cinemax
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medical drama series ''The Knick
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'', for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
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nomination. In 2021, he starred in a psychological romance horror miniseries ''Lisey's Story
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'' and also portrayed President Bill Clinton
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in the third season of ''American Crime Story
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''.
Early life
Clive Owen was born on 3 October 1964 inKeresley
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, Coventry
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(then in Warwickshire
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), the fourth of five sons born to Pamela ( Cotton) and Jess Owen. His father, a country and western singer, left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was 19, the two have remained estranged. 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 the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...
. After graduation, he worked at the Young Vic, performing in several Shakespearean
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plays.
Career
Early career
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'' and the Channel 4
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film ''Vroom'' before the 1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV
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** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
series '' Chancer'', followed by an appearance in the Thames Television
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production of ''Lorna Doone
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''.
He won critical acclaim for his performances in the Stephen Poliakoff film '' Close My Eyes'' (1991) about a brother and sister who embark on an incest
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uous love affair. He subsequently appeared in ''The Magician'', ''Class of '61'', ''Century
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'', '' Nobody's Children'', ''An Evening with Gary Lineker
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'', ''Doomsday Gun
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'', ''Return of the Native
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'' and a Carlton production called '' Sharman'', about a private detective. In 1996, he appeared in his first major Hollywood film ''The Rich Man's Wife
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'' alongside Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges
Michael Tommy Hodges (29 July 1932 – 17 December 2022) was a British screenwriter, film and television director, playwright and novelist. His films as writer/director include ''Get Carter'' (1971), ''Pulp'' (1972), '' The Terminal Man'' (197 ...
called ''Croupier
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'' (1998). In ''Croupier'', he played the title role of a struggling writer who takes a job in a London casino
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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 in about a decade.
Owen starred in ''The Echo'', a BBC1
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drama, before starring in the film ''Greenfingers
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'', about a criminal who goes to work in a garden. He appeared in the BBC1 mystery series ''Second Sight
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''. In 2001, he provided the voice-over for ''Walk On By'', a BBC2 documentary about popular music, as well as starring in a highly acclaimed theatre revival of Peter Nichols' play ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
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'', about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.
Subsequent work
Owen became known to North American audiences in the summer of 2001 after starring as "The Driver" in ''The Hire
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'', a series of short films sponsored by BMW and made by prominent directors. He appeared in Robert Altman's ''Gosford Park
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The film stars ...
''. He appeared in the 2002 film '' The Bourne Identity''. In 2003, he reteamed with director Mike Hodges in '' I'll Sleep When I'm Dead''. He starred in '' Beyond Borders'' as well as King Arthur
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in ''King Arthur
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'', for which he learned to ride a horse.
He appeared in the Royal National Theatre debut of the hit play '' Closer'', by Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.
Early life
Marber was born and raised in a middle-class Jewish family in Wimbledon, London, the son of Angela (Benja ...
, which was produced as a film
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in 2004. He played Dan in the play, and played Larry in the film version. His portrayal of Larry in the film received very favourable reviews, as well as the Golden Globe and BAFTA awards, and an Academy Award
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nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He noted that the expectations of him since the Oscar 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
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, the comic book
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thriller ''Sin City
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'' as the noir antihero
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Dwight McCarthy and as a mysterious bank robber in ''Inside Man
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''. Despite public denials, Owen had been rumoured to be a possible successor to Pierce Brosnan
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in the role of James Bond
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. A public opinion poll in the United Kingdom in October 2005 by SkyNews found that he was the public's number one choice to star in the next instalment of the series. In that same month, however, it was announced that fellow British actor Daniel Craig
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would become the next James Bond. In an interview in the September 2007 issue of ''Details Detail(s) or The Detail(s) may refer to:
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* ''The Details'' (film), a 2011 American film
* ''The Detail'', a Canadian television series
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'', he claimed that he was not offered or approached concerning the role.
In 2006, Owen spoofed the Bond connection by making an appearance in the remake of ''The Pink Panther
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'' in which he plays a character named "Nigel Boswell, Agent 006" (when he introduces himself to Inspector Clouseau
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, he quips that Owen's character is "one short of the big time").
In 2006, Owen starred in '' Children of Men''. The film was nominated for various awards, including an Academy Award
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for Best Adapted Screenplay; Owen worked on the screenplay, although he was uncredited. The next year he starred alongside Paul Giamatti
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in the film ''Shoot 'Em Up
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'' and appeared as Sir Walter Raleigh opposite Cate Blanchett
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's Elizabeth I of England
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in the film '' Elizabeth: The Golden Age''. He appeared in the Christmas special of the Ricky Gervais
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and Stephen Merchant
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Alongside Ricky Gervais, Merchant was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series ''The Office'' (2001–2003), and ...
show '' Extras''.
Owen starred in '' The International'' (2009), a film which he described as a "paranoid political thriller". He played the lead in '' The Boys Are Back'', an Australian adaptation of the book ''The Boys Are Back in Town'' by Simon Carr.
In June 2010 it was announced that Owen and Nicole Kidman
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would star in an HBO
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film about Ernest Hemingway
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and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn
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Gellhorn reported on virtually every major worl ...
entitled ''Hemingway & Gellhorn
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''. James Gandolfini
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served as executive producer to the film, written by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl
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Stahl has worked extensivel ...
. The film was directed by Philip Kaufman
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and released in 2012. Owen played the lead in '' Shadow Dancer'', a joint UK/Ireland production about a young mother who is involved with Irish republicanism
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. It co-starred Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
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, and Aidan Gillen
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, and was directed by James Marsh. In April 2010, he was cast as the lead in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
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's horror-thriller '' Intruders''.
Owen starred in the film '' Blood Ties'', directed by Guillaume Canet
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Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like ''Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me If ...
, alongside French actress Marion Cotillard
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She has received ...
. It was released in June 2013 at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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. In 2015, Owen made his Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
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debut in a revival of Harold Pinter
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's ''Old Times
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'' at the American Airlines Theatre. He 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
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's ''M. Butterfly
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'' at the Cort Theatre
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in New York City.
In 2019, Owen played the role of the defrocked Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon in the West End theatre
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production of Tennessee Williams
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' ''The Night of the Iguana
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'' at the Noël Coward Theatre
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. Also in 2019, he played Dovidl Rapaport in ''The Song of Names.'' He is playing Bill Clinton
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in the miniseries '' Impeachment: American Crime Story''.
Personal life
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. They began dating shortly after and married in March 1995. The couple have two daughters together. Owen became patron of the Electric Palace Cinema inHarwich, Essex
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, and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the historic building.
Owen is a supporter of Liverpool FC
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and narrated the fly on the wall
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documentary series '' Being: Liverpool''.
Filmography
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Awards and nominations
Owen has received multiple nominations for his work in both film and television. He has oneAcademy Award
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nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Larry in '' Closer'' (2004), three Golden Globe Award
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nominations, winning one in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in ''Closer''; his other two nominations are for his roles in television including made-for-television film ''Hemingway & Gellhorn
''Hemingway & Gellhorn'' is a 2012 television film directed by Philip Kaufman about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 28, ...
'' (2012) for Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, and drama series ''The Knick
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'' (2014) for Best Lead Actor in a Television Series – Drama, one Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding pe ...
nomination for his performance in ''Hemingway & Gellhorn'' (2012), and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations – winning one in 2002 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture for his performance in ''Gosford Park
''Gosford Park'' is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. It was influenced by Jean Renoir's French classic ''La Règle du jeu'' ('' The Rules of the Game'').
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'' (2002).
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