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Clive Standen

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43 Years Old

​Clive Standen is 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..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. 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. Hi 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 shows new hero. Clive is also known for a previous recurring role as Private Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.

Born

County Down, Northern Ireland on 22nd July 1981

All Credits

Vikings Image
Vikings
Rollo
Doctor Who Image
Doctor Who
Private Harris
The Morning Show Image
The Morning Show
Andre Ford
Secret Level Image
Secret Level
Lieutenant Titus (voice)
Waking the Dead Image
Waking the Dead
Martin Raynor
Waking the Dead Image
Waking the Dead
Young Martin Raynor
Taken Image
Taken
Bryan Mills
Camelot Image
Camelot
Gawain
Obliterated Image
Obliterated
Liam
Possessions Image
Possessions
Pete
Council of Dads Image
Council of Dads
Anthony Lavelle
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Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Rollo (archive footage)
Winter Palace Image
Winter Palace
Lance Raney
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Mirage
Gabriel Taylor
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Vendetta
William Duncan
Everest Image
Everest
Ed Viesturs
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Real Vikings
Self
Boudica Image
Boudica
Prasutagus
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Patient Zero
Colonel Knox
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Vault
Chucky
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Namastey London
Charles 'Charlie' Brown
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In Like Flynn
Charlie
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Hammer of the Gods
Hagen
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Clear Cut
Jack
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Heroes and Villains
Pete
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Ten Days to D-Day
Canadian Commanding officer
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Brooke