Charly Clive

“People don’t say no to a little girl with a brain tumor.” The Edinburgh Fringe Festival sensation is starring in a new series alongside Steve Carell and Connie Britton By Lisa Liebman Charly Clive has no doubt about who deserves the credit for her burgeoning career. “If it hadn’t been for Miss Watt, ” she says, “my life would be really, really different.” Her high-school homeroom teacher and the head of the drama department, Miss Watt took Clive under her wing when she was a struggling 14-year-old student. “She knew that I loved theater, and that I didn’t like academia,” adds Clive, who was raised with her older brother by a British father and Mexican-American mother in a small village outside of Oxfordshire, England. The teacher and pupil struck a deal: Clive could audition for the school play if she finished all of her homework. She did, and got a part in READ ON