Clive Robertson: biography, career, personal life

In this article, let's talk about the wonderful British actor Clive Robertson. We will discuss his biography, career and personal life. Let's talk about his achievements in the field of English television.

Clive Gladstone Robertson (full name) - a famous English actor, was most popular after appearing as Ben Evans in the television series "Love and Secrets of Sunset Beach."

Biography

Clive Robertson was born on December 17, 1965, in the English county of Wiltshire. The boy grew up in a family where his father was a military pilot, so very often his family changed their place of residence. For his childhood, he managed to visit countries such as Singapore, the Netherlands, Cyprus. When Clive was eight, he returned to England to start school at a school in Hampshire.

After graduating from high school, young Robertson enters the Marlborough College, where, in addition to teaching, begins to get involved in sports. He attended five sections: boxing, golf, athletics, tennis, Greco-Roman wrestling. The young man shows special interest in the latter form.

Clive then goes to the business training school, which is located in Oxford, and thinks to continue to deal exclusively with sales. After successfully completing the courses, Robertson Clive goes on a trip to Africa. Returning, he realizes that he is not doing what he would like. After a little reflection, he goes to London, where he enters the theater art school.

Actor career

After graduating from art school Clive goes to Hollywood to find a job.

The first of his roles, Clive Robertson, whose biography was not easy, plays in the series, but it's all insignificant, mostly the actor appears in several episodes. Before heading home, desperate Clive passed a contest for a new series "Love and mystery of Sunset Beach," unexpectedly for the actor producer Aaron Spelling assigns him one of the main roles.

For two and a half years, Robertson plays the pensive and mysterious character of Ben Evans, when suddenly on the plot of the series the main character has a twin brother. Now Clive plays two roles in one project and copes with it just superbly. For the performed roles, the actor was repeatedly nominated for various awards. After such a success Clive Robertson immediately decides to move to America for permanent residence.

In 1999, Robertson appears in the movie VIP ("Girls with a character"), in which the actor plays the role of Hank Jonas, in the film the famous Pamela Anderson was shot.

Personal life

While studying at the London School of Arts, Clive met with the beginning actress Libby Purvis, in 1999 the couple got married. After the actor was approved for the lead role in the television series Sunset Beach, his wife, Libby, moved to California to spend more time with her husband.

In early 2002, the couple reported that they had to part, and a couple of months later they divorced. As a result of the marriage, Clive and Libby left two children: daughter Amelia and son Alexander, who were born in October 2002 and after the divorce, the parents live with their mother in Australia.

The second time Clive Robertson married in September 2007. This time, his partner was Karin Antonini, who worked as a linguist. In the couple's marriage two sons were born: Cristiano (the boy was born in February 2010) and Nikolay (born in June 2012). The whole family lives in Los Angeles.

Filmography

For the entire time of the acting career, about a dozen roles were played by Clive Robertson. Films and series with his participation in most cases were shown on TV for a long time.

List of films and serials in which the actor played roles (in brackets the year of release of the film is shown on the screen):

• Tropper - the actor played an episodic role, which was not indicated in the credits (1992).
• Paparazzo - the officer in the life of the girl Marin (1995).
• The series "London Bridge" - episodic role in one series (1995).
• The series "Love and mystery of Sunset Beach" - the actor played the double role of Ben and Derek Evans (1997-1999).
• VIP ("Girls with character") - character Hank Jonas (1999).
• The series Starhunter - played the role of Montana Travis (2003-2004).
• The film "Thunder of ants" - Hovas Vaps (2006).
• The series "Dishonest brutal games" - played by Theodore Crawford (2006-2007).
• "Mad girl-agents" - Damon Archer (2008).

To date, Robertson Clive turned 51, the films with his participation have ceased to appear on the screen, it is difficult to say whether we will see another actor in any role.

Awards and nominations, interesting facts

After the shooting of the multi-series film "Love and Secrets of Sunset Beach" was discontinued, the actor thought that he wanted to make his own film. Throughout the year, Clive Robertson worked as an operator, but after several films, he enjoys writing scripts.

In 1998, Clive was nominated for a TV award in two categories:

1. "The best acting debut of 1998".
2. "The best couple on the series" (nominees - Clive Robertson and actress Susan Ward for playing in the series "Love and Secrets of Sunset Beach").

Also in the opinion of the 1998 television list, the actor got into the TOP-10 of the sexiest actors of daytime TV.

To date, Clive has left an acting career and is engaged in the design and construction of private homes. There remains the question of how many more talents are hidden in this remarkable man.