Clive Standen

Clive Standen
Clive Standen

Clive Standen (2006)
Born Clive James Standen
22 July 1981 (1981-07-22) (age 30)
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
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.

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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 dramatization 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 addition to his screen roles Standen has done voice overs for video games such as Aliens vs. Predator.[citation needed]

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 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.[3]

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
2010 Camelot Gawain 10 episodes Series Regular

Theatre

Video game voice-overs

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

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