Clive Robertson
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Clive Gladstone Robertson (born December 17, 1965 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England) is a British actor.
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[edit] Biography
He spent much of his younger life abroad, living in such places as Singapore, Cyprus and The Netherlands, with his family following his RAF fighter pilot father. Clive was sent back to England at the age of eight, to get an education, and was a boarder at prestigious Marlborough College for ten years. After graduating Clive attended the University of Oxford where he gained a degree in business and management, before starting a career in marketing.
After a few years, although successful in his career, Clive felt unfulfilled and decided to quit his job and enroll in drama school. After attending a one-year course at London drama school Arts Educational, he launched his professional acting career playing the lead role of Alan Turing, the gay mathematician, in the play Breaking the Code. Clive appeared in many well-received stage plays and made several TV appearances over the next few years, before, in 1996, deciding to try his luck in Hollywood. By the end of the three week vacation he took there to investigate moving permanently, he had landed the lead role of Ben Evans in Aaron Spelling's new daytime drama Sunset Beach. Clive played the brooding mysterious Brit for three years, also appearing as his character's evil identical twin, Derek, a role for which he won much critical acclaim.
After the cancellation of the show in December 1999, Clive moved into behind the camera work, building a successful career as a writer and producer. He made his return to TV in 2003, playing interplanetary bounty hunter Travis Montana in one season of the Canadian sci-fi series Starhunter. Clive also appeared in the soap General Hospital and worked alongside Julia Roberts, lending his voice to the animated movie The Ant Bully. He spend most of 2005 filming live-action footage for the computer game Darkstar. Clive stars as Theodore Crawford in the MyNetworkTV telenovela, Wicked Wicked Games, which premiered on December 6, 2006.
[edit] Personal Life
Clive was married to Australian actress/writer Libby Purvis, whom he met at drama school. The pair moved to America together for Clive to take the role on Sunset Beach, and married in 1999 on Richard Branson's private island, Necker Island. They split up in 2003, and are now divorced. [1] They have two children, born October 2002, Alexander and Amelia, who live with their mother in her native Australia.
Clive works designing and building houses when he is not acting.
Clive lives in Malibu and is represented by the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles.
[edit] References
- ^ Soap Opera Digest. Something Wicked. Retrieved on January, 2007.
