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Revision as of 17:02, 26 December 2012
Clive Standen | |
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Born | Clive James Standen 22 July 1981 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2004 - present |
Clive Standen (born 22 July 1981) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Gawain in the Starz (TV network) series Camelot as well as 'Archer', the brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood and Private Carl Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.
Acting
Standen's first experience of stunts, horse riding and sword fighting was at age twelve when he got his first job working in a professional stunt team in Nottingham. At the age of fifteen Standen was a member of both the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre performing in productions at many well known venues. Later Standen won a place on the three year acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[1]
In 2004 Standen appeared in Waking the dead, the Second World War documentary drama Ten Days to D-Day, and took the lead role of Major Alan Marshall in the Zero Hour TV dramatisation of the SAS mission, operation Barras, in Sierra Leone. The next year he appeared in three episodes of the British soap Doctors and Tom Brown's Schooldays, the acclaimed[2] ITV adaptation of the book by Thomas Hughes. Standen played Private Carl Harris in three episodes of the fourth series of the relaunched British sci-fi show Doctor Who. The following year he played 'Archer', the brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood. Standen is currently part of the main cast of the TV series Camelot for Starz (TV network) in which he portrays the famous Arthurian knight Sir Gawain.
On film Standen took a lead role in the mainstream Bollywood film Namastey London alongside Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar.In 2012 Standen completed filming on the Vertigo Films feature film titled Hammer of the Gods
In 2012, Standen joined the History channel's Vikings in the role of Rollo
In addition to his screen roles Standen has done voice overs for video games such as Aliens vs. Predator and Inversion
Personal life
He was born on a British Army base in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and at the age of two he had moved across the water to Leicestershire in the East Midlands. He went to school at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. Away from acting, in his late teens Standen was a former international Muay Thai boxer and later fencing gold medalist. He married his wife Francesca in 2007 at Babington House. They live in London with their three children.[1] on November 25th 2011 Standen made a surprise trip back to his hometown of Melton Mowbray to switch on the town's Christmas lights.
Stage and screen credits
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2004 | Ten Days to D-Day | Canadian Commanding Officer | Emmy Award winning TV film |
2005 | Tom Brown's Schooldays | Brooke | TV film |
2006 | Heroes And Villains | Pete | |
2007 | Namastey London | Charlie Brown | Cine Award 'Best film 2008' |
2010 | Eating Dust | Spence | |
2012 | Hammer of the gods | Hagen | Post production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Episodes | Notes |
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2004 | Waking The Dead | Martin Raynor | 2 part Episode | |
2005 | Doctors | Charlie Halliday | 3 Episodes | |
2007 | Zero Hour | Major Alan Marshall | 1 Episode | |
2008 | Doctor Who | Private Harris | 3 Episodes | |
2009 | Robin Hood | Archer | 3 Episodes | Series Regular |
2010 | Camelot | Gawain | 10 episodes | Series Regular |
2012 | Vikings | Rollo | 9 episodes | Series Regular |
Theatre
- The Invention of Love, Salisbury Playhouse (2006) - Moses Jackson
- West Side Story, The Royal Albert Hall (2000) - Diesel
- The Ballad of Salmon Pavey, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (1999–2000) - Nathanial Giles
Video game voice-overs
Video game | Year | Character |
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Aliens vs. Predator | 2010 | various lead Marine/civilian characters |
Inversion | 2012 | Leo/Gulthar |
Ghost recon:Future soldier | 2012 | Kosak |
External links
- Clive Standen at IMDb
- monstersandcritics Standen as Gawain in TV series 'Camelot'
- http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2010/08/first-look-at-joseph-fiennes-a.html,More on Clive in Starz TV series 'Camelot'
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/jun/16/robin-hood-jonas-armstrong-bbc, The Guardian Newspaper 16 June 2009
- http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2009/10/robin-hood-star-clive-standen.html, Clive Rumored to be in Pirates of the Caribbean 4
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2009/06/10/clive_standen_robin_hood_feature.shtml, BBC Article: Clive as Robin Hood
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/27/hood7.shtml, BBC press release
- http://www.companypictures.co.uk/production.aspx?code=tombrown, Info and Press on Tom Brown's School Days.
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Clive_standen, More Pictures of Clive Standen
- http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/6939/the-invention-of-love, The Stage Reviews The Invention of Love
- http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-invention-of-love-playhouse-salisbury-527795.html, The Independent Reviews The Invention of Love
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3638809/Perils-of-scholarship.html, The Telegraph Reviews The Invention of Love.