Charly Clive

Clive was born to an English father and a Mexican-American mother^[2] and grew up in a village in Oxfordshire, attending St. Helen's and St. Katharine's School, a private school in Abingdon. 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 macroadenoma.^[4] She wrote, alongside Ellen Robertson, 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]

In 2019, she secured a main role as 24-year-old Marnie MacCauley,^[3] with obsessive-compulsive disorder who 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]