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50 things about actor Clive Owen.
1. He had a recurring role on a series of BMW commercials as their mysterious driver.
2. He played a valet in the film Gosford Park and played a fellow "Agent" named the Professor in The Bourne Identity who was sent to kill Bourne.
3. Owen has four brothers.
4. He was raised by his mother and stepfather.
5. He has 2 daughters named Hannah and Eve.
6. He is a fan of David Bowie.
7. Called Bowie "the biggest musical influence on my life." He says, "I don't know why, but no one else has ever had such an effect on me. I didn't have most of his work. I had everything."
8. In the 1970s, when Bowie was changing his appearance and style with every album, Owen would re-dye his hair whatever color Bowie's was at the time.
9. Owen turned down the role as The Driver for BMW twice. He was sent a copy of the script for the first ad, read it and was impressed by its presentation. He immediately accepted the role, jumped on a plane to LA, and was whisked away to the set of the first ad as soon as he landed.
10. Two of his brothers, Alan and Lee, became musicians.
11. Owen and his wife met at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art while doing Romeo and Juliet.
12. He was mentioned in the song 'Risen Within' by MC Homicide featuring PAZ.
13. Clive Owen was invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
14. He is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.
15. Owen was voted "Best dressed male" by GQ magazine in 2006.
16. After he graduated the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined the Young Vic Theatre.
17. Owen won the TFCA Award for Best Supporting Performance, Male for film Closer.
18. Won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for his role in Gosford Park.
19. He was also nominated for the PFCS Award for Best Acting Ensemble for Gosford Park.
20. For Gosford Park he also won the OFCS Award for Best Ensemble.
21. Appeared in a Masterpiece Theater presentation of Precious Bane. He starred with Janet McTeer, as her brother, Gideon.
22. Was the face of a new Lancome anti-aging cream for men.
23. In November 2006, Owen became patron of the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich, England and launched an appeal for funds to repair deteriorating elements of the fabric.
24. Was voted #5 in Elle (France) Magazine's "15 Sexiest Men" poll.
25. Is the patron for the Electric Palace Cinema in Harwich, England.
26. Was named Empire Magazines #25 in the list of 100 Sexiest Stars.
27. His father was a country/western singer.
28. Joined the youth theatre at 13 after playing the scene-stealing role of the Artful Dodger in a production of "Oliver!".
29. In 1984, following graduation, Clive applied and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for three years. While there, he built up a classical resume including roles in "Henry IV, Part I" and "The Lady from the Sea".
30. Joined the Young Vic Theatre Company and, in 1988, as it goes, the actor playing Romeo fell in love with his Juliet, Sarah-Jane Fenton. The couple eventually married in 1995 and have two daughters.
31. 1988 was a good year for another reason. Clive made his film debut in the British-made Vroom co-starring with David Thewlis as two fellows who restore a classic American car and take off on the road.
32. Clive became a full-fledged TV star playing handsome rogue Stephen Crane in "Chancer". However, the now-sought-after Clive abandoned the star-making part during the show's peak because of unwanted invasion of privacy and his fear of typecasting.
33. His biggest film break, was in Mike Hodges' Croupier, as a struggling writer-turned-casino employee who gets in over his head with a femme fatale scam artist.
34. Clive Owen first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991.
35. Owen has since played leading roles in films such as Sin City, Derailed, Inside Man, Children of Men, and The International.
36. In 2012, he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role in Hemingway & Gellhorn.
37. Since 2014, Owen has played Dr. John W. Thackery on the Cinemax medical drama series The Knick, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.
38. The fourth of five brothers, Owen was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, in the English Midlands, to Pamela (née Cotton) and Jess Owen, a country and western singer.
39. His father left the family when Owen was three years old, and despite a brief reconciliation when Owen was nineteen, the two have remained estranged.
40. His stepfather is a railway ticket clerk.
41. He has described his childhood as "rough".
42. While initially opposed to drama school, he changed his mind in 1984, after a long and fruitless period of searching for work.
43. Initially, Owen carved out a career in television.
44. In 1990s he became a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV series Chancer, followed by an appearance in the Thames Television production of Lorna Doone.
45. He appeared in The Magician, Class of '61, Century, Nobody's Children, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Doomsday Gun, Return of the Native and then a Carlton production called Sharman, about a private detective.
46. In 1996, he appeared in his first major Hollywood film The Rich Man's Wife alongside Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges called Croupier.
47. In 1999, he appeared as an accident-prone driver in Split Second, his first BBC production in about a decade.
48. Owen married Sarah-Jane Fenton on 6 March 1995.
49. The couple lives in Highgate, London and Wrabness, Essex.
50. Owen enjoys the music of indie rock band Hard-Fi and has been seen at two of their concerts.
