Clive Robertson

Clive Gladstone Robertson (born December 17, 1965 in Wiltshire, England) is a British actor. He spent much of his younger life abroad, living in such places as Singapore, Cyprus and The Netherlands, his family following his RAF fighter pilot father. Clive was sent back to England at the age of eight, to get an education, and was a boarder at prestigious Marlborough College for ten years. After graduating Clive attended the University of Oxford where he gained a degree in business and management, before starting a career in marketing.

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December 17 - 1965 - Wiltshire, England - British - Actor - Singapore - Cyprus - The Netherlands - England - Marlborough College - University of Oxford

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After a few years, although successful in his career, Clive felt unfulfilled and decided to quit his job and enroll in drama school. After attending a one-year course at London drama school Arts Educational, he launched his professional acting career playing the lead role of Alan Turing, the gay mathematician, in the play Breaking the Code. Clive appeared in many well-received stage plays and made several TV appearances over the next few years, before, in 1996, deciding to try his luck in Hollywood. By the end of the three week vacation he took there to investigate moving permanently, he had landed the lead role of Ben Evans in Aaron Spelling's new daytime drama Sunset Beach. Clive played the brooding mysterious Brit for three years, also appearing as his character's evil identical twin, Derek, a role for which he won much critical acclaim.

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Alan Turing - 1996 - Aaron Spelling - Sunset Beach

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After the cancellation of the show in December 1999, Clive moved into behind the camera work, building a successful career as a writer and producer. He made his return to TV in 2003, playing interplanetary bounty hunter Travis Montana in one season of the Canadian sci-fi series Starhunter. Clive also appeared in the soap General Hospital and more recently worked alongside Julia Roberts, lending his voice to the animated movie The Ant Bully.

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1999 - 2003 - Canadian - Starhunter - General Hospital - Julia Roberts - The Ant Bully

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Clive is married to Australian actress/writer Libby Purvis, who he met at drama school. The pair moved to America together for Clive to take the role on Sunset Beach, and married in 1999 in an intimate ceremony on Richard Branson's private island, Necker Island. They have two children, born October 2002, Alexander and Amelia.

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Australia - Libby Purvis - America - 1999 - Richard Branson - Necker Island - 2002

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