Cleave is an African American actor based in Sydney, Australia, his latest credit was playing the role of Orderly The Invisible Man (2020), released on 28 February, 2020, from Australian director Leigh Whannell. He was also starring in a Vodafone campaign mid 2019, and prior to this Cleave was playing the role of Albert and Kevin in the Bruce Norris Award-winning play Clybourne Park at the Ensemble Theatre in Kirribilli. The production was sold out and received great reviews. In 2012, he was cast as Duggie, a fun-loving, soul-singing, heroin-addicted, saxophone player in The Sapphires.