One of the true gentlemen in the film business, Clive Owen is consistently polite, gracious, and good-natured. He smiles easily and never gives the impression of being burdened or annoyed with his celebrity. He's a laid-back sex symbol whose effortless charm has endeared him to female audiences ever since Croupier turned him into a star. A dedicated family man whose wife and two daughters are his world, Owen is the first to admit that he has exactly the kind of life he always wanted.
"I've been very lucky. I've always known what I wanted to do in life and I've been able to go out and do it," Owen says. "I was lucky enough to get a place at the Royal Academy [RADA] in London. Then it wasn't long before I played the lead in a hit TV series [Chancer] that helped me gain attention in the business, and then [director] Mike Hodges gave me the chance to do Croupier and that little film took my career to a whole other level."
The 47-year-old Owen's latest film is "Shadow Dancer", a compelling thriller in which he plays Mac, an MI5 officer trying to protect Collette, a Republican informant who is arrested for her part in an aborted London tube bomb plot and then coerced into spying on her fellow IRA family members. When an IRA operation goes awry, Collette falls under suspicion while Mac realises that internal MI5 intrigue will compromise his promise to maintain her cover.
Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker James Marsh ["Man on Wire"] and written by Tom Bradby, a noted journalist who spent over a decade covering the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the film maintains a high level of tension and skilfully avoids easy sentimentality thanks to Owen's nuanced portrayal and that of co-star Andrea Riseborough [she played Wallis Simpson in Madonna‘s execrable "W.E."].
READ THE INTERVIEW WITH CLIVE OWEN: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/clive-owen-anything-family-003000420.html
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