Charly Clive
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| Born | 1991 or 1992 (age 31–32) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2015–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]
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 ArtinNew 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]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2015 | Never Better | Dylan | |
| 2018 | What in the World | Short Film | |
| 2021 | All My Friends Hate Me | Sonia |
| 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 |
| Year | Artist | Video | Album |
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| 2020 | Elderbrook | Numb | Why Do We Shake In The Cold? |
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
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| 2016 | Britney | herself | Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh | also co-writer and producer |
| 2019 | Britney | herself | Soho Theatre, London | also co-writer and producer |
…2015… Christmas… aged 23, her brain tumour was the size of a [43 mm] golf ball. Her blind spot was a pituitary adenoma…
