Clive Owen Biography

- Was voted “Best Dressed Male” by GQ Magazine in 2006

- In a public opinion poll taken in the UK in October 2005 by Sky News, Owen was voted as the public’s number 1 choice to star in the next James Bond movie.

- Is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

- Has four brothers, and was raised by his mother and step dad,who worked for British Rail.

- When his 2003 co-star in “Beyond Borders”, Angelina Jolie, told him he looked sexy, she says “he fell over laughing.”

- Is a huge David Bowie fan, and says “I didn’t have most of his work, I had everything.”

- When he was a teenager in the 1970s, he would dye his hair to match David Bowie’s each time a new Bowie album came out!

- Has a deep, dramatic baritone voice.

- Turned down the role of The Driver in the BMW mini-films twice before finally deciding to accept it.

- He is mentioned in the song “Risen Within” by MC Homicide featuring PAZ.

- Met his wife, Sarah-Jane, while he was acting in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: he was playing Romeo, and she was playing Juliet!

- Was invited to join AMPAS in 2005.