Clive Standen

Clive Standen (born 22 July 1981) is an English actor best known for playing Sir Gawain in theStarz series Camelot as well as 'Archer', the brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood, Private Carl Harris in the British sci-fi show Doctor Who and Rollo, the brother of Ragnar in the History Channel TV series Vikings. --- He was born on a British Army base in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, and at the age of two he had moved across the water to Leicestershire in the East Midlands. He went to school at the King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray followed by a performing arts course at Melton Mowbray College. Away from acting, in his late teens Standen was a former international Muay Thai boxer and later fencing gold medalist. Standen's first experience of stunts, horse riding and sword fighting was at age twelve when he got his first job working in a professional stunt team in Nottingham. At the age of fifteen Standen was a member of both the National Youth Theatre and the National Youth Music Theatre performing in productions at many well known venues. Later Standen won a place on the three year acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 2004 Standen appeared in Waking the Dead, the Second World War documentary drama Ten Days to D-Day, and took the lead role of Major Alan Marshall in the Zero Hour TV dramatisation of the SAS mission, operation Barras, in Sierra Leone. The next year he appeared in three episodes of the British soap Doctors and Tom Brown's Schooldays, the acclaimed ITV adaptation of the book by Thomas Hughes. Standen played Private Carl Harrisin three episodes of the fourth series of the relaunched British sci-fi show Doctor Who. The following year he played 'Archer', the brother of Robin Hood in the BBC TV series Robin Hood. Standen was part of the main cast of the TV series Camelot for Starz (TV network) in which he portrayed the famous Arthurian knight Sir Gawain. On film Standen took a lead role in the mainstream Bollywood film Namastey London alongside Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar. In 2012 Standen completed filming on the Vertigo Films feature film titled Hammer of the Gods In 2012, Standen joined the History Channel's Vikings in the role of Rollo In addition to his screen roles Standen has done voice overs for video games such as Aliens vs. Predator and Inversion --- He married his wife Francesca in 2007 at Babington House. They live in London with their three children. on November 25, 2011 Standen made a surprise trip back to his hometown of Melton Mowbray to switch on the town's Christmas lights.