Clive Owen's performance in the title role of Mike Hodges' sleeper hit Croupier had critics comparing him to the likes of Bogart, Mitchum, and Connery. More recently, he won the Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Mike Nichols' Closer. He will next be seen in the thriller Derailed with Jennifer Aniston.

His recent film credits also include Beyond Borders, a romantic war drama co-starring Angelina Jolie, the Mike Hodges thriller, I'll Sleep When I Am Dead and King Arthur. Owen first came to the U.K. public's attention as the star of the television series Chancer. U.S. audiences later saw him starring opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jack Gold's telefilm adaptation of The Return of the Native, which aired on CBS. More recently, he starred in the BBC's Second Sight police dramas, which aired on PBS's Mystery!

Owen's feature films also include Beeban Kidron's Vroom, Stephen Poliakoff's Close My Eyes and Century, Sean Mathias' Bent, Joel Hershman's Greenfingers and Robert Altman's star-studded Gosford Park. His acclaimed stage work includes portraying Romeo at the Young Vic, starring in Sean Mathias' staging of Noel Coward's Design for Living and playing the lead role in Patrick Marber's original production of Closer at the Royal National Theater.

His U.K. telefilm credits also include Andrew Grieve's Lorna Doone, Andy Wilson's An Evening with Gary Lineker, Diarmuid Lawrence's The Echo and David Blair's Split Second. In the fall of 2001, he starred in London in Lawrence Boswell's staging of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and in The Hire, series of BMW Internet short features, in which he was directed by (respectively) John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.