Clive Standen
- Actor
- Visual Effects
Clive Standen is a British actor, he was born on a British Army base in
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the East
Midlands in England. He went to school at King Edward VII School
(Melton Mowbray) followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray
College. In his late teens, Standen was an international Muay Thai Boxer
and later Fencing gold medalist.
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. His sword
fighting skills are seamless, he is left-handed but learned to fight
with his right hand in his early years making him uniquely ambidextrous
in the craft. 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 Dramatic Art LAMDA on their three-year acting
course.
He is best known for playing the battle hardened warrior 'Gawain' a
series regular in the Starz networks TV series 'Camelot' and also
'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 show's new hero. Clive is also known for a previous recurring
role as Private Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.
Prior to his role in Camelot & Robin Hood, Standen appeared in three
episodes of Doctor Who, the crime thriller "Waking the dead", 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 was also the face of Evian water 2008.
In 2012 Clive landed a lead role in the Vertigo films feature "Hammer
of the Gods" and the new series "Vikings" produced by MGM/History, both
slated to be released in spring 2013.
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the East
Midlands in England. He went to school at King Edward VII School
(Melton Mowbray) followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray
College. In his late teens, Standen was an international Muay Thai Boxer
and later Fencing gold medalist.
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. His sword
fighting skills are seamless, he is left-handed but learned to fight
with his right hand in his early years making him uniquely ambidextrous
in the craft. 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 Dramatic Art LAMDA on their three-year acting
course.
He is best known for playing the battle hardened warrior 'Gawain' a
series regular in the Starz networks TV series 'Camelot' and also
'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 show's new hero. Clive is also known for a previous recurring
role as Private Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.
Prior to his role in Camelot & Robin Hood, Standen appeared in three
episodes of Doctor Who, the crime thriller "Waking the dead", 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 was also the face of Evian water 2008.
In 2012 Clive landed a lead role in the Vertigo films feature "Hammer
of the Gods" and the new series "Vikings" produced by MGM/History, both
slated to be released in spring 2013.