Born: Clive Gladstone Robertson

December 17th, 1965

Devizes, Wiltshire, England

Two children: Amelia & Alexander (2002)
with ex-wife Libby Purvis

Currently married to: Caryn Antonini
and residing in Los Angeles

Clive was born 'Clive Gladstone Robertson' on December 17th 1965, in Devizes Wiltshire, England. His father Richard was a pilot in the Royal air force. As a result, Clive, together with his mother, Catherine, and sister, Fiona, lived in different parts of the world such as Singapore, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Holland.

For ten years, from the age of eight to eighteen, Clive became a boarder at Marlborough College, in his home county of Wiltshire, where he developed his love of sport, taking part in tennis, golf, rugby, squash, boxing, and athletics, in which he excelled at 'long-jumping', and went on to become the UK schools' long-jump champion.

After graduating, Clive attended Oxford University School of business where he gained a degree in Business management, after which he got a job in marketing prestige cars, but felt unfulfilled after a year or so in marketing, and left for Kenya, a favourite place of his now dead father, to re-think his future.

On his return he had decided to apply to drama school. Clive studied with an acting coach, and passed the audition to enter London Drama school 'Arts educational', where only 5% of those who apply get in. He embarked on an intense one year program, compressing a two year course into one year. Of the course, Clive said "he had no life for a year", as he got up at 7 each morning, and did'nt get home until 9.30 each evening, only having time to cook himself something, and go to bed to get up and do the same thing all over again!

It was at Arts Ed. that Clive met, fell in love with, and later married Australian actress Libby Purvis, with whom he has twins, Amelia and Alexander, born October 2002. Sadly the couple are now divorced, and Libby is now back in her native Australia, with their children, while Clive continues to live in LA, and travels regularly to Australia to see his children, he describes as "wonderful and adorable".

After completing the year long drama course, Clive landed his first proper stage role at the Theatre museum in London, as Alan Turing in 'Breaking the code', a true story about a gay mathematician who broke the German Enigma code, during world war two, and later committed suicide. Clive describes the role as "amazing, I didn't leave the stage for two hours, and was able to immerse myself completely, Iv'e never played a better part since"!

Other stage roles include Danny Zuko in a production of 'Grease' at the Oxford Playhouse', and roles in which he toured the UK. Include Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights',, Valmont in 'Les Liasons Dangereuses', and Ken Harrison in 'Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf'.

Clive's appeared in 'Before the killing starts' an Independent film, and his tv appearances included roles in 'The Bill', Papparazzo, and London Bridge.

The stage work however was poorly paid, and after talking to an agent at a party, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood, saying he had nothing to lose, and he and Libby booked a months holiday in California in late 1996,staying with friends in Pacific Pallisades.

Three weeks into his vacation, Clive got an audition for the part of Ben Evans, in Aaron Spelling's new day-time soap, Sunset Beach, after Libby took his show-reel to a meeting she had with a manager, who thought he might be right for the part. After a nerve-wracking audition, followed by a screen-test, Clive was cast as Ben Evans, even though they were looking for an American to play the part originally. Shooting was to start almost immediately, and Clive had only two weeks to return to London and sort out the difficult job of immigration.

Clive played the charismatic, mysterious, brooding Ben Evans for three years, also appearing as his characters own identical twin, Derek, for which he won much critical acclaim, before the show folded at the end of 1999 after 750 episodes.

When asked what three years on SB. had been like he said "hard work, but huge fun. I've been shot, almost drowned, and I've bedded more women since 1997 than most men manage in a lifetime"!

Although Clive was offered parts in a number of tv. Soaps after SB. ended, he turned them all down, saying he wanted a break from the daily grind of soaps, and instead hoped to break into films. He subsequently auditioned for the part of Severous Snape, when the first Harry Potter film was being cast, and also read for the part of Paul McCartney in a movie, "even though I don't look a thing like him and can't sing " he laughingly said.

On returning to tv. Clive guest starred in V.I.P. a syndicated show starring Pamela Anderson, appearing in season four, in an episode called "Diagnosis Val, which aired on January 26 th 2002. playing Dr Hank Jonas, a murderous doctor.

Later That year, Clive was cast in the lead role in Starhunter - a sci-fi series, as starship captain & bounty hunter Travis Montana, spending seven months filming 22 episodes of the series in Mississauga, just outside Toronto, Canada. The series was shown in Canada & the USA. In 2003. Unfortunately, a planned follow-up series was cancelled.

In late 2004 Clive guest starred in General Hospital in the role of Simon Niles, a part loosely based upon Simon Cowell of American Idol fame.

He then spent a big part of 2005 staying with Darkstar producer Jeff Allen Williams, whilst filming live-footage scenes in the lead role of Captain John O'neil for the computer game 'Darkstar', provisionally set for release in summer 2007.

Clive also voiced the part of 'Hova's wasp' in Tom Hanks movie 'The Ant Bully' which went on general release in summer 2006.

Clive appeared in the mini-series 'Wicked Wicked Games' as Theodore Crawford, alongside Tatum O'neal, in which he plays the ex-lover of Blythe (Tatum O'Neal) who's bent on revenge.the series was shown on the mynetwork tv channel towards the end of 2006 through into early 2007.

In September 2007, Clive married girlfriend Caryn in a ceremony held at the Cipriani in Venice.

In 2008, we looked forward to seeing Clive in his first tv.film "Crazy girls undercover"- a thriller, partly shot in Las Vegas. It follows the escapades of a former CIA agent (Damon Archer - Clive) and his team of nightclub girl sidekicks. In 2009, CGU is being shown on pay per view cable TV in the US till March. The DVD will hopefully be available for general release after this period.

Work is continuing on Darkstar, the long-awaited interactive multi-media game - ... in which Clive features as 'The player' John O'Neil....Captain of the stricken ship. It will likely reach the stores in 2009. It is devised by Jeff Allen Williams, who has spent 7 years perfecting his project, & says...

"It's more like a movie than anything else. At all times, the resolution will be ultra-hirez with special effects that better most film projects, not to mention other computer "games". The environment is completely interactive as the player encounters strange rooms, and a few time-hole generated "ghosts", remnants of the past. There is none of the "bitmapped" looking play, and it is NOT a shoot-em-up game."