Charly Clive | |
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 Clive in One Tank Road Trip 2019 | |
| Born | 1993 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2018–present |
Charly Clive (born 1993) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Marnie in the Channel 4 series Pure (2019). She was named a 2018 Screen International Star of Tomorrow. [1]
Clive was born to an English father and a Mexican-American mother [2] and grew up in a village in Oxfordshire. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, graduating in 2014. [3]
That December, at age 23, Clive was diagnosed with a macroadenomas brain tumour. [4] She wrote about her experience in a sellout comedy stage show called Britney, which was named after her brain tumour, [4] which in turn was named after singer Britney Spears: “I needed it to be iconic, and there is nobody more iconic than Britney. If I was going to get a tumour, then she'd have to be a little bit fabulous, and so Britney was the one." [5]
In 2019, she secured a main role as 24-year-old Marnie MacCauley, [3] who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts, [6] in the Channel 4 British television series Pure . [6]
In 2021, she starred in the premise pilot for an eponymous television sitcom adaptation of Britney aired on BBC Three in November that year, [7] although it was not picked up to series. [8]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | What in the World | Short Film | ||
| 2021 | All My Friends Hate Me | Sonia | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Pure | Marnie MacCauley | Main role |
| 2021 | Britney | Charly | premise pilot (also creator, writer, associate producer) |
| 2022–2023 | The Lazarus Project | Sarah Leigh | Main role |
| Year | Artist | Video | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Elderbrook | Numb | Why Do We Shake In The Cold? |
| 2024 | Jazz Emu | I Could Get Into It |
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Britney | herself | Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh | also co-writer and producer |
| 2019 | Britney | herself | Soho Theatre, London | also co-writer and producer |
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…2015… Christmas… aged 23, her brain tumour was the size of a [43 mm] golf ball. Her blind spot was a pituitary adenoma…
