
Jack Lowden
Biography
Jack Andrew Lowden (born June 2, 1990) is a Scottish actor. Following a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success was in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, which led to starring roles in feature films. Starring as River Cartwright in the Apple TV series Slow Horses since 2020, he has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Lowden starred as Eric Liddell in the 2012 play Chariots of Fire in London. In 2014, he won an Olivier Award and the Ian Charleson Award for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's 2013 adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
In 2013, he began to take on substantial roles in British television series and feature films, including The Tunnel (2013) and '71 (2014). He also had leading roles in the BBC miniseries The Passing Bells (2014) and War & Peace (2016). Other screen roles include the title role as golfing legend Tommy Morris in Tommy's Honour (2016); the starring role of Morrissey in the biopic England Is Mine (2017); a main-cast role as an RAF fighter-pilot in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017); a starring role in the Scottish Highlands thriller Calibre (2018, for which he won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Film Actor); Lord Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots (2018); a starring role as a plantation owner in 19th-century Jamaica in the 2018 BBC miniseries The Long Song; and as Zak "Zodiac" Bevis in the 2019 comedy-drama WWE film Fighting with My Family.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Lowden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Gallery






Known For
Acting History
2025
Ella McCay as Ryan Newell
2025National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step as Luka
2025Tornado as Little Sugar
2023The Gold as Kenny Noye
2023The Gold as Kenneth Noye
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
2022The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Forodwaith Sauron
2022Slow Horses as River Cartwright
2021Benediction as Siegfried Sassoon
2020Small Axe as Ian MacDonald
2020Kindred as Thomas
2020Capone as Crawford
2020Return to Real Kashmir FC
2019Fighting with My Family as Zak 'Zodiac' Knight
2018The Long Song as Robert
2018Mary Queen of Scots as Lord Darnley
2018Calibre as Vaughn
2017England Is Mine as Steven Patrick Morrissey
2017Dunkirk as Collins
2017Tommy's Honour as Tommy Morris
2017The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth as Hunter
2016A United Kingdom as Tony Benn
2016Denial as James Libson
2016War and Peace as Nikolai Rostov
2015Pan as Dobkin
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Wolf Hall as Thomas Wyatt
2014The Passing Bells as Michael
2014'71 as Thommo
2014Ghosts as Oswald Alving
2013The Tunnel as Adam Roebuck
2013uwantme2killhim? as Henry
2012Mrs Biggs as Alan Wright
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
—Pride & Prejudice as Mr Darcy
—Rogue Trooper as Gunnar (voice)
—Untitled Berlin Noir Series as Bernie Gunther









