OCCUPATION: Actor, AGE: 36. PROVENANCE: Coventry, England. SUCCESSFULLY CROSSED THE POND IN: Croupier, an English art-house film that was last summer's surprise indie hit Stateside. "I've always had a pretty decent career here, but Croupier is the first thing that's really broken in the U.S. for me." THEN HOLLYWOOD TOOK NOTICE: "I didn't realize the impact of Croupier until I went out there and people were genuinely enthusiastic. Nobody even knows about the film in England." NOW HE'S A PLAYER: “I'm about to start shooting The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon, and it looks like I'll be doing a film with Robert Altman." BUT IF YOU CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THEN: Owen can be seen in March on PBS in the mini-series Second Sight, as "a policeman who discovers lie's losing his sight and tries to cover it up," and later this year with Helen Mirren in Greenfingers—" It's about a group of prisoners who become champion gardeners and end up competing at a posh flower show."
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