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Clive Standen
Clive Standen (2006)
Born
Clive James Standen
OccupationActor
Years active2004 - present

Clive Standen (born 22 July 1981) is an English actor best known for playing series regular 'Archer', the swashbuckling brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood a role which brought Standen much critical acclaim with many of the national press comparing Standen's charming but edgy performance and seemingly effortless sword fighting Skill to Errol Flynn. It was much speculated at the end of the 3rd season that after his brothers death "Archer" would pick up the mantle of Robin Hood and become the shows new hero if the series continued on to a 4th series, this however did not happen as the BBC decided to cancel the show. Clive is also known for a previous recurring role as Private Carl Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.



History

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 King Edward VII School (Melton Mowbray) followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. His first experience of stunts and sword fighting was at the tender age of 12 when Standen got his first job working in a professional stunt team in Nottingham learning to Ride, Joust and sword fight. and at the age of fifteen Clive was both a member of the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre performing lead roles in plays and musicals in West End and at venues such as The Royal Albert Hall and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. He then won a place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on their three year acting course.

Prior to his role in Robin Hood and Dr Who, Standen appeared in Waking the dead, in 2004, the Second World War drama documentary Ten days to D-day, three episodes of Doctors and Tom Brown's Schooldays, the acclaimed ITV adaptation of the book by Thomas Hughes. He also played the lead role of Major Alan Marshall in the Zero Hour TV dramatization of the SAS mission in Sierra Leone known as operation Barras.

Standen took a lead role in the mainstream Bollywood film Namastey London alongside Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar. Clive is also the face of Evian water 2008.

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, Hayden, Edi and Rafferty.

Clive Standen in action in Robin Hood (2009)
Clive Standen (Archer) (2009)

Stage and screen credits

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Ten Days To D-Day Canadian Commanding Officer Emmy Award winning TV Movie
2005 Tom Brown's Schooldays Brooke TV movie
2006 Heroes And Villains Pete
2007 Namastey London Charlie Brown Cine Award 'Best film 2008'
2010 Eating Dust Spence In Production

Television

Year Title Role Episodes Notes
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

Theatre

Video game voice-overs

Video game Year Character
Aliens vs. Predator (video game) 2010 various lead Marine/civilian characters
Inversion 2010 Gulthar
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