Charly Clive

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Charly Clive
Charly Clive 'One Tank Road Trip' 2019.jpg
Clive in One Tank Road Trip 2019
Born1993
OccupationActress
Years active2018–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]

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Early life

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, alongside Ellen Robertson, 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]

Career

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]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2018What in the WorldShort Film
2021 All My Friends Hate Me Sonia

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 Pure Marnie MacCauleyMain role
2021BritneyCharly premise pilot
(also creator, writer, associate producer)
2022–2023 The Lazarus Project Sarah LeighMain role

Music video

YearArtistVideoAlbum
2020 Elderbrook NumbWhy Do We Shake In The Cold?
2024 Jazz Emu I Could Get Into ItEgo Death

Stage

YearTitleRoleVenueNotes
2016Britneyherself Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh also co-writer and producer
2019Britneyherself Soho Theatre, London also co-writer and producer

References

  1. ↑ "Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2018". Screen International . 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Gonzalez, Elliot (27 January 2019). "I TALK TO Charly Clive". I Talk Telly. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 "American Academy of Dramatic Arts - Alumni Career Highlights". aada.edu. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 Wiseman, Eva (27 January 2019). "Charly Clive: How my brain tumour inspired a comedy career". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020. …2015… Christmas… aged 23, her brain tumour was the size of a [43 mm] golf ball. Her blind spot was a pituitary adenoma…
  5. ↑ Blake, Elly (30 November 2021). "Britney: The story behind the new BBC Three comedy". The Evening Standard . Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Channel 4's OCD sex terror Pure is too pure for its own good". British GQ. 29 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Baker, Emily (30 November 2021). "Britney, BBC3, review: The first time a brain tumour has ever been funny". i . Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Morris, Lauren (6 December 2021). "Britney stars say they're "ready to go" if BBC commissions full series". Radio Times . Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
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