Charly Clive

Charly Clive (born 1993) 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]

Charly Clive
Clive in One Tank Road Trip 2019
Born	1993
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2018–present

Early life

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 2014.^[3]

That December, at age 23, Clive was diagnosed with a macroadenomas brain tumour.^[4] She wrote about her experience in a sellout comedy stage show called Britney, which was named after her brain tumour,^[4] 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."^[5]

Career

In 2019, she secured a main role as 24-year-old Marnie MacCauley,^[3] who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts,^[6] in the Channel 4 British television series Pure.^[6]

In 2021, she starred in the premise pilot for an eponymous television sitcom adaptation of Britney aired on BBC Three in November that year,^[7] although it was not picked up to series.^[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	What in the World		Short Film
2021	All My Friends Hate Me	Sonia

Television

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

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

Stage

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