Clive Robertson
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Clive Gladstone Robertson (born 17 December 1965 in Devizes
, Wiltshire, England) is a British
actor
perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach
, the Canadian
science fiction series Starhunter
, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.
, Cyprus
and the Netherlands
, with his family following his RAF fighter pilot father. He was sent back to England
at the age of eight, to get an education, and was a boarder at prestigious Marlborough College
. After leaving he attended the Oxford School of Business, where he gained a degree in business and management, before starting a career in marketing.
After a few years, although successful in his career, Robertson 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. He 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
. Robertson 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.
After the cancellation of the show in December 1999, Robertson 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
. He also appeared in the soap General Hospital
in a recurring role, and worked alongside Julia Roberts
, lending his voice to the animated movie The Ant Bully
. He has also acted in several computer games and played the lead role in the critically acclaimed 2010 science fiction epic Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, which included a large amount of live-action footage of Robertson.
Robertson stars as Theodore Crawford in the MyNetworkTV telenovela, Wicked Wicked Games
, and subsequently starred in the movie Crazy Girls Undercover
.
n actress/writer Libby Purvis, whom he met at drama school. The pair moved to America
together for him to take the role on Sunset Beach, and married in 1999 on Richard Branson
's private island, Necker Island
. They split up in 2003 and divorced the following year. They have two children, born October 2002, Alexander and Amelia, who live with their mother in her native Australia. In September 2007 Robertson married his second wife, Caryn, in Venice, Italy. The couple lives in Los Angeles.
Robertson works designing and building houses when he is not acting.
Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The town is about southeast of Chippenham and about east of Trowbridge.Devizes serves as a centre for banks, solicitors and shops, with a large open market place where a market is held once a week...
, Wiltshire, England) is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach (TV series)
Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
, the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
science fiction series Starhunter
Starhunter
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd...
, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.
Biography
Robertson spent much of his younger life abroad, living in such places as SingaporeSingapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, with his family following his RAF fighter pilot father. He was sent back to England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
at the age of eight, to get an education, and was a boarder at prestigious Marlborough College
Marlborough College
Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. Currently there are just over 800...
. After leaving he attended the Oxford School of Business, where he gained a degree in business and management, before starting a career in marketing.
After a few years, although successful in his career, Robertson 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
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...
, the gay mathematician, in the play Breaking the Code. He 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
Ben Evans (TV character)
Ben Evans was a fictional character in the US soap opera Sunset Beach portrayed by actor Clive Robertson during the show's entire run.-Character history:...
in Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's eponymous production company Spelling Television holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits...
's new daytime drama Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach (TV series)
Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
. Robertson played the brooding mysterious Brit for three years, also appearing as his character's evil identical twin, Derek
Derek Evans (TV character)
Derek Evans was a fictional character on the American soap opera Sunset Beach portrayed by actor Clive Robertson, who also portrayed his identical twin brother Ben. Derek first appeared on December 30, 1997, when he was played by a stunt performer in a mask, being the killer on the boat...
, a role for which he won much critical acclaim.
After the cancellation of the show in December 1999, Robertson 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
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
sci-fi series Starhunter
Starhunter
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd...
. He also appeared in the soap General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
in a recurring role, and worked alongside Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman , which grossed $464 million worldwide...
, lending his voice to the animated movie The Ant Bully
The Ant Bully
The Ant Bully is a 1999 children's book drawn and written by John Nickle. It is about a young boy named Lucas Nickle , who is the titular character in the book and who likes to torment ants. It was later adapted into a computer-animated film of the same name by John A...
. He has also acted in several computer games and played the lead role in the critically acclaimed 2010 science fiction epic Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, which included a large amount of live-action footage of Robertson.
Robertson stars as Theodore Crawford in the MyNetworkTV telenovela, Wicked Wicked Games
Wicked Wicked Games
Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. ...
, and subsequently starred in the movie Crazy Girls Undercover
Crazy girls undercover
Crazy Girls Undercover is a 2008 B-movie directed by Chris Langman and starring Clive Robertson and Nikki Ziering.- Plot :The film is about a group of Las Vegas sexy showgirls who are undercover agents working with a former C.I.A. agent to stop a terrorist attack...
.
Personal life
Robertson was married to AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n actress/writer Libby Purvis, whom he met at drama school. The pair moved to America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
together for him to take the role on Sunset Beach, and married in 1999 on Richard Branson
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....
's private island, Necker Island
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island is a small island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda, located at . All of the land on the island is owned by Sir Richard Branson, famous for his Virgin brand, and it is part of the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of luxury properties...
. They split up in 2003 and divorced the following year. They have two children, born October 2002, Alexander and Amelia, who live with their mother in her native Australia. In September 2007 Robertson married his second wife, Caryn, in Venice, Italy. The couple lives in Los Angeles.
Robertson works designing and building houses when he is not acting.
Filmography
- Topper (1992)
- Cinderumplestiltskin (TV movie) (1993)
- The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
(episode "No Name, No Number") (1994) - B Team P.C. - London Bridge (1995)
- Paparazzo (1995) - Marine Officer on leave
- Before the Killing Starts (TV movie) (1995)
- Sunset BeachSunset Beach (TV series)Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
(403 episodes) (1997-1999) - Ben Evans, Derek Evans - V.I.P.V.I.P. (TV series)V.I.P. is an American action/comedy-drama series starring Pamela Anderson. Created by J. F...
(episode "Diagnosis Val") (2002) - Dr. Hank Jonas - StarhunterStarhunterStarhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd...
(22 episodes) (2002-2004) - Travis Montana - Medal of Honor: European AssaultMedal of Honor: European AssaultMedal of Honor: European Assault is the 6th installment in the long running Medal of Honor series. European Assault was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube in June 2005. The game's story was written by John Milius, the writer of Apocalypse Now...
(2005) - Additional Voices - The Ant BullyThe Ant Bully (film)The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated film written and directed by John A. Davis based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle...
(2006) - Hova's Wasp (voice) - Wicked Wicked GamesWicked Wicked GamesWicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. ...
(16 episodes) (2006-2007) - Theodore Crawford - Crazy Girls UndercoverCrazy girls undercoverCrazy Girls Undercover is a 2008 B-movie directed by Chris Langman and starring Clive Robertson and Nikki Ziering.- Plot :The film is about a group of Las Vegas sexy showgirls who are undercover agents working with a former C.I.A. agent to stop a terrorist attack...
(2008) - Damon Archer - Darkstar: The Interactive Movie (video game) (2010) - Captain John O'Neil
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