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.
Clive was born to an English father and a Mexican-American mother and grew up in a village in Oxfordshire, attending St Helens and St Katharine's school. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, graduating in 2014.
That December, at age 23, Clive was diagnosed with a macroadenoma. She wrote, alongside Ellen Robertson, about her experience in a sellout comedy stage show called Britney, which was named after her brain tumour, which in turn was named after singer Britney Spears: âÂÂI 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."
In 2019, she secured a main role as 24-year-old Marnie MacCauley, with obsessive-compulsive disorder who is plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts, in the Channel 4 British television series Pure.
In 2021, she starred in the premise pilot for an eponymous television sitcom adaptation of Britney aired on BBC Three in November that year, although it was not picked up to series.