Charly Clive

Charly Clive
Born1991 or 1992 (age 31–32)
OccupationActress
Years active2015–present

Charly Clive (born 1991 / 1992) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Marnie in the Channel 4 series Pure (2019). She was named a 2018 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.[1]

Early life

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Clive was born to an English father and a Mexican-American mother[2] and grew up in a village in Oxfordshire. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, graduating in 2015.

That December, at age 23, Clive was diagnosed with a macroadenomas brain tumour.[3] She wrote about her experience in a sellout comedy stage show called Britney, which was named after her brain tumour,[3] which in turn was named after singer Britney Spears: “I needed it to be iconic, and there is nobody more iconic than Britney. If I was going to get a tumour, then she'd have to be a little bit fabulous, and so Britney was the one".[4]

The premise pilot for an eponymous television sitcom adaptation of Britney aired on BBC Three in November 2021,[5] though it was not picked up to series.[6]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2015 Never Better Dylan
2018 What in the World Short Film
2021 All My Friends Hate Me Sonia

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2019 Pure Marnie MacCauley Main role
2021 Britney Charly premise pilot
(also creator, writer, associate producer)
2022–2023 The Lazarus Project Sarah Leigh Main role

Music video

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Year Artist Video Album
2020 Elderbrook Numb Why Do We Shake In The Cold?
2024 Jazz Emu I Could Get Into It

Stage

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Year Title Role Venue Notes
2016 Britney herself Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh also co-writer and producer
2019 Britney herself Soho Theatre, London also co-writer and producer

References

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  1. ^ "Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2018". Screen International. 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  2. ^ Gonzalez, Elliot (27 January 2019). "I TALK TO Charly Clive". I Talk Telly. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b Wiseman, Eva (27 January 2019). "Charly Clive: How my brain tumour inspired a comedy career". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020. …2015… Christmas… aged 23, her brain tumour was the size of a [43 mm] golf ball. Her blind spot was a pituitary adenoma…
  4. ^ Blake, Elly (30 November 2021). "Britney: The story behind the new BBC Three comedy". The Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  5. ^ Baker, Emily (30 November 2021). "Britney, BBC3, review: The first time a brain tumour has ever been funny". i. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  6. ^ Morris, Lauren (6 December 2021). "Britney stars say they're "ready to go" if BBC commissions full series". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
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