Clive Standen

Clive Standen

Standen in 2015
Born (1981-07-22) 22 July 1981
Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
Occupation Actor
Years active 2004–present
Spouse(s) Francesca Standen (2004–present)

Clive James Standen (born 22 July 1981) is a British actor best known for playing Rollo in the History Channel TV series Vikings, Sir Gawain in the Starz series Camelot, Archer in the BBC TV series Robin Hood, and Private Carl Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who.

Personal life

Clive James Standen was born on a British Army base in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Leicestershire, East Midlands, England. He went to school at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. Standen then went on to earn a place on the 3 year diploma course in Acting at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 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 25 November 2011, Standen made a surprise trip back to his hometown of Melton Mowbray to switch on the town's Christmas lights.

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.[3] Standen was part of the main cast of the TV series Camelot for Starz (TV network) in which he portrayed 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. He is set to star in Screen Gems thriller film Patient Zero.[4]

In addition to his screen roles Standen has done voice overs for video games such as Aliens vs. Predator and Inversion.

Sea Shepherd

Standen is a spokesman for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.[5]

Stage and screen credits

Clive Standen in Robin Hood
Clive Standen in Robin Hood

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
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
2015 Everest Ed Viesturs
2016 Patient Zero Colonel Knox Filming

Television

Year Title Role Episodes Notes
2004 Waking the Dead Martin Raynor 2 part Episode
2005 Doctors Charlie Halliday 3 Episodes
2007Zero 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
2013–present Vikings Rollo 29 episodes Main cast
2014 Atlantis Telemon Guest, 2 episodes
2016 Taken Bryan Mills Main role

Theatre

Video game voice-overs

Video game Year Character
Aliens vs. Predator 2010 Various lead Marine/civilian characters
Inversion 2012 Leo/Gulthar
Ghost recon:Future soldier 2012 Kosak

References

  1. 1 2 "BBC – Press Office – Robin Hood returns to BBC One: Clive Standen". bbc.co.uk.
  2. ↑ http://www.companypictures.co.uk/production.aspx?code=tombrown
  3. ↑ Hodgkinson, Will. Robin Hood: easily replaced by another archer, The Guardian, 16 June 2009. Accessed 25 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Patient Zero Begins Filming". Dread Central.
  5. ↑ "Real Men Don't Whale". YouTube. 29 August 2013.

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