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Posted on 06/07/04

From quiet croupier to action star

Special to The Globe and Mail

LOS ANGELES -- It looks like Clive Owen could cry at any minute.Could this be the same super-cool, sometimes inscrutable British actor who starred as the poker-faced Jack Manfred in Croupier, the calculating revenger in Gosford Park and the Driver in those BMW minimovies on the Web? The guy who never seems to crack an expression in his latest English noir thriller, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead? The man bold enough to take on the title role of the new big-screen version of King Arthur, which re-imagines his nation's mythic hero as a Roman officer?

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