Clive Rowe
| Clive Rowe MBE |
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|---|---|
| Born |
27 March 1964 Oldham, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989 - Present |
Clive Mark Rowe, MBE (27 March 1964, Oldham, Lancashire) is a British actor, probably best known for his role as Norman "Duke" Ellington in BBC Children's drama The Story of Tracy Beaker.He also starred as Mayor Doyle in the hit Disney show Evermore and the Evermore chronicles. Rowe grew up in Shaw, Lancashire, in the parish of East Crompton and attended St. James Primary School and Crompton House School. As a teenager he was a member of Crompton Stage Society. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Clive Rowe has appeared in many pantomimes.
He has appeared on television in Dalziel and Pascoe and The Bill, and had a recurring role as "Duke" in The Story of Tracy Beaker in Series 1 to 4.
He appeared in the 2007 Christmas special of Doctor Who - "Voyage of the Damned" as "Morvin Van Hoff".
More recently, he appeared on the BBC1 drama All The Small Things, portraying "Clifford Beale", a homeless caretaker, more commonly known as "Shrek".
Rowe has also recently appeared in the show So Awkward on CBBC as the father of one of the main characters called Jas.
His film roles include that of "Sammy" in Lars Von Trier's controversial Manderlay.
While a student at the Guildhall School, played Wally Watkins in a production of Lady Be Good, which caused the Opera critic to note "one of two potential stars in the cast" who "sang the title song most winningly and rattled off the acres of daffy dialogue with the aplomb and timing of a Durante". In 1992, Rowe was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance as Enoch Snow in the London revival of Carousel. In 1994, he appeared in Once on This Island. He won the 1997 Olivier for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his role as "Nicely Nicely Johnson" in the National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award for his role in 2008’s Mother Goose at the Hackney Empire. He was called one of the best Dames in the business when he appeared on BBC One's Breakfast News on 10 December 2009. He starred in the pantomime Aladdin at the Hackney Empire from November 2009 to January 2010 and in Jack and the Beanstalk from November 2010.
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