The winner of the Golden Globe, BAFTA award and Oscar nomination Clive Owen is not going to be within the Czech Republic for the primary time. He filmed the movie The Final Knights right here in 2012 and the drama Ofelia in 2017.
He was born on October 3, 1964 in Coventry, England, the fourth of 5 brothers. The oldest is a businessman, the center two are musicians. Owen had just one dream since he was little, to develop into an actor.
“Once I began, theater was my old flame. As a baby I acted in a faculty play and fell in love with performing. It wasn’t about TV. It wasn’t about motion pictures. I joined a small youth theater in my hometown and that is the place it began. So it was at all times one thing that I loved lots,” he mentioned in one of many interviews.
Karlovy Range Competition stars: Viggo Mortensen, Clive Owen and Daniel Brühl
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Clive Owen graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, which launched him to the basic Shakespearean repertoire.
His research can also be fascinating. His class was engaged on a brand new play by Howard Barker which was being staged on the Royal Courtroom on the identical time, starring Gary Oldman. However Oldman fell sick and Clive Owen, who had been auditioned for a similar function, was requested to face in for him.
After graduating, he started his performing profession with London’s Younger Vic Theater Firm, the place he created a number of roles in Shakespearean productions. And one in all them was deadly to him.
In 1988, he obtained the function of Romeo within the play Romeo and Juliet. Sarah-Jane Fenton performed right here, with whom Clive Owen fell in love they usually married in 1995. Their daughter Hannah was born in 1997, Eve in 1999. He and his spouse carefully guard their privateness. In interviews, Owen has mentioned many occasions that his spouse and daughters assist him steadiness his life and provides him the energy to proceed working.
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Clive Owen as Dr. Thackery
Along with assembly his fateful spouse in 1988, he additionally made his movie debut with the title Vroom. He then appeared primarily in tv movies and collection, amongst his most profitable being the function of the charismatic Stephen Crane within the crime collection Gambler (1990-1991, Chancer).
“Once I was youthful, folks used to say {that a} true actor can solely be acknowledged on stage. I do not agree with that. Among the greatest performing I’ve ever come throughout has been on movie. Movie could be very a lot about capturing the essence of issues – if you happen to really feel it and you’ve got the best particular person filming it, you come throughout it. Theater is a special animal. It is bodily totally different and requires a special self-discipline. In theatre, you are mining the identical materials, you are at all times perfecting the identical factor, performing it and conserving it alive and recent,” Owen mentioned when evaluating theater and movie performing.
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Kryštof Mucha, government director of the KV IFF, Clive Owen and Jiří Bartoška
The turning level in his performing profession got here in 1997. Patrick Marber’s play Nearer, through which Owen created the function of Dan, had its world premiere at London’s Royal Nationwide Theatre. In 2004, when the eponymous movie adaptation of this globally profitable drama in regards to the pitfalls of affection relationships was made, Owen took on the function of Larry, directed by Mike Nichols, alongside Julie Roberts, Natalie Portman and Jude Regulation. He received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for his efficiency.
“One wants slightly time for the character to mature in a single’s head. From that standpoint, capturing Na dotek was perfect, after I got here in, labored like loopy, performed lots, after which I might take a break for 2 weeks as a result of scenes with another person had been being shot. That is my favourite rhythm,” Owen mentioned.
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Clive Owen and Jiří Bartoška
By the point he was accumulating awards for his function within the movie Na dotek, he already had various movie roles beneath his belt. Amongst them was, for instance, the title character of Jack from Mike Hodges’ crime drama Croupier (1998, Croupier), one of many thirty main roles within the masterful research of manners Gosford Park (2001) directed by Robert Altman, a job within the motion thriller Agent and not using a Previous (2002, The Bourne Id), the wartime romantic drama Hranice zlomu (2003, Past Borders) or the title function in Antoine Fuqui’s historic movie Král Artuš (2004, King Arthur).
His filmography has a spot in various titles that show his collaboration with valued administrators. With Alfonso Cuarón, he made the science fiction Descendants of Males (2006, Youngsters of Males), with Spike Lee the thriller Ally (2006, Inside Man), he performed the primary male function in Shekhar Kapur’s historic drama Queen Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, Elizabeth: The Golden Age) or in Tom Tykwer’s motion thriller Worldwide (2009, The Worldwide).
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Clive Owen greets the followers
He and Julia Roberts reunited as rival secret brokers within the romantic motion movie Double Recreation (2009, Duplicity). The movie Blood Ties (2013), directed by Guillaume Canet, premiered on the Cannes competition. Not too long ago, viewers had the chance to see Owen within the FX collection A Homicide on the Finish of the World (2023, A Homicide on the Finish of the World).
He was nominated for a second Golden Globe for his function as Ernest Hemingway in Philip Kaufman’s TV film Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012, Hemingway & Gellhorn). He then obtained his third nomination for this award for his main function within the TV collection of Steven Soderbergh, who may also be this yr’s star visitor on the Karlovy Range competition, Knick: Docs With out Borders (2014-2015, The Knick), nominated for an Emmy Award.
He performed Invoice Clinton within the collection Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021), which revisits the well-known affair of the American president with intern Lewinska.
Within the noir miniseries Monsieur Spade (2024), impressed by Dashiell Hammett’s literary work, he created the title function of personal detective Sam Spade.
There are not any scandals related to Clive Owen, he’s a British gentleman with every little thing. It is probably not extensively recognized that he’s an enormous fan of David Bowie, whose music he has mentioned was his greatest musical affect. “I do not know why, however nobody else has hit me like that.”
On the event of the Clive Owen award, the Karlovy Range Competition will current the movie To the Contact, which turns twenty years previous this yr.
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