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Clive Owen
Actor
Male
Born
Oct 3, 1964
Age
48
Hometown
Coventry
Clive Owen is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for portraying the lead in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He then garnered critical acclaim for his work in the… Read More
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Sarah-Jane FentonMarried 1995
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Cannes: Lionsgate Nabs U.S. Rights To Clive Owen Crime DramaYahoo News - about 9 hours ago
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Mike Kaplan: Encounters With Mike Hodges' 'The Terminal Man' Via Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman And Terrence Malick (Part 2)Huffington Post - Mar 25, 2013
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'Sin City' Director Robert Rodriguez Previews 'A Dame To Kill For'MTV News - Jan 23, 2013
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Clive Owen On Avoiding The British Agent Cliche In 'Shadow Dancer' And His Own Memories Of Irish TroublesThe Huffington Post - Jan 18, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1964
Birth
Born on October 3, 1964.
TEENAGE
1984
19 Years Old
While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work.
TWENTIES
1987
22 Years Old
Owen graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1987 with a class that included Rebecca Pidgeon, Serena Harragin, Mark Womack, and Liza Tarbuck.
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1988
23 Years Old
Initially, Owen carved out a career in television. In 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC 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.
1991
26 Years Old
He won critical acclaim for his performances in the 1991 Stephen Poliakoff film Close My Eyes – in which he has a full frontal nude scene – about a brother and sister who embark on an incestuous love affair.
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THIRTIES
1995
30 Years Old
Owen married Sarah-Jane Fenton on 6 March 1995; the couple live in Highgate, London and Wrabness, north Essex, with their two daughters – Hannah and Eve.
1996
31 Years Old
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 (1998).
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1999
34 Years Old
In 1999, he appeared as an accident-prone driver in Split Second, his first BBC production in a decade.
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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 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, about a couple with a severely handicapped daughter.
2002
37 Years Old
He appeared in the 2002 hit The Bourne Identity.
2003
38 Years Old
In 2003, he teamed up with Hodges again to make I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.
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FORTIES
Owen appeared in the West End and Broadway hit play Closer, by Patrick Marber, which was produced as a film, and was released in 2005.
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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" (when he introduces himself to Inspector Clouseau, he quips that Owen's character is "one short of the big time").
2007
42 Years Old
In an interview in the September 2007 issue of Details, he claimed that he was never offered or even approached concerning the role.
In April 2010, he was cast as the lead in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's horror-thriller Intruders.
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