Jack Lowden
CountryUnited Kingdom 
GenderMale
BirthdayJun 2, 1990
BiographyJack Andrew Lowden (born 2 June 1990) is a Scottish actor and producer. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Following a four-year stage career, Lowden gained recognition for his starring role in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, with subsequent film roles ensuing such as in the historical dramas A United Kingdom (2016), Dunkirk (2017), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018), in which he portrayed Lord Darnley. He won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller Calibre (2018), portrayed Zak Zodiac in the film Fighting with My Family (2019), and received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2020. From 2020, he has played River Cartwright in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2024.
Continuing his film career, Lowden has since acted in the biopics Capone (2020) and as Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021), which won him his second BAFTA Scotland Award, as well as in the independent dramas Kindred (2021) and Tornado (2025). During this period, he also received the Trophée Chopard (2022) and, as a producer of the film The Outrun (2024), which starred his now-wife Saoirse Ronan, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. His other television roles include the miniseries The Passing Bells (2014), Wolf Hall (2015) and The Long Song (2018), and as barrister Ian Macdonald in the anthology Small Axe: Mangrove (2020), and murderer Kenneth Noye in the drama series The Gold (2023–2025). Lowden's biggest stage success was in the role of Oswald Alving in Richard Eyre's 2013 West End adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts (2013–2014), while his other stage credits include Black Watch (2010–2011), Chariots of Fire (2012), Electra (2014), Measure for Measure (2018), and David Ireland's The Fifth Step (2024–2025).
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Following a four-year stage career, Lowden gained recognition for his starring role in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, with subsequent film roles ensuing such as in the historical dramas A United Kingdom (2016), Dunkirk (2017), and Mary Queen of Scots (2018), in which he portrayed Lord Darnley. He won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller Calibre (2018), portrayed Zak Zodiac in the film Fighting with My Family (2019), and received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2020. From 2020, he has played River Cartwright in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2024.
Continuing his film career, Lowden has since acted in the biopics Capone (2020) and as Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021), which won him his second BAFTA Scotland Award, as well as in the independent dramas Kindred (2021) and Tornado (2025). During this period, he also received the Trophée Chopard (2022) and, as a producer of the film The Outrun (2024), which starred his now-wife Saoirse Ronan, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. His other television roles include the miniseries The Passing Bells (2014), Wolf Hall (2015) and The Long Song (2018), and as barrister Ian Macdonald in the anthology Small Axe: Mangrove (2020), and murderer Kenneth Noye in the drama series The Gold (2023–2025). Lowden's biggest stage success was in the role of Oswald Alving in Richard Eyre's 2013 West End adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts (2013–2014), while his other stage credits include Black Watch (2010–2011), Chariots of Fire (2012), Electra (2014), Measure for Measure (2018), and David Ireland's The Fifth Step (2024–2025).
Biography from the Wikipedia article Jack Lowden. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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