Clive Standen Biography

Clive Standen (born 22 July 1981) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Gawain in the Starz (TV network) series Camelot as well as 'Archer', the brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood, Private Carl Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who and Vikings Rollo', the brother of Ragnar in the History Channel TV series Vikings.

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.

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 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. Standen is currently part of the main cast of the TV series Camelot for Starz (TV network) in which he portrays 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

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

Personal life

He was born on a British Army base in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and at the age of two he had moved across the water to Leicestershire in the East Midlands. He went to school at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. 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. on November 25, 2011 Standen made a surprise trip back to his hometown of Melton Mowbray to switch on the town's Christmas lights.

Stage and screen credits

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
2007	Aaja Nachle
2012	Hammer of the Gods	Hagen	Post production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Episodes	Notes
2004	Waking the Dead	Martin Raynor	2 part Episode
2005	Doctors	Charlie Halliday	3 Episodes
2007	Zero 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	9 episodes	Main cast

Theatre

• The Invention of Love, Salisbury Playhouse (2006) - Moses Jackson
• West Side Story, The Royal Albert Hall (2000) - Diesel
• The Ballad of Salmon Pavey, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (1999"2000) - Nathanial Giles

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