Clive Owen
Clive Owen
Clive Owenis an English actor who first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He then received critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyesbefore earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier. In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 October 1964
CityCoventry,, England
I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.
I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.
I've got an age that I do think of myself.
When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.
I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.
When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.
I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.