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Jack Lowden

Actor, ProducerBorn June 2, 1990 (35 years)
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.

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Known For

  • Slow Horses
  • Dunkirk
  • Calibre
  • Mary Queen of Scots
  • Fighting with My Family
  • '71
  • Denial
  • Benediction
  • Capone
  • England Is Mine
  • The Outrun
  • War & Peace (2016)
  • Ella McCay
  • Tommy's Honour

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    Filmography

    2025
    Ella McCay · as Ryan Newell
    2025
    The Fifth Step · as Luka
    2025
    Tornado · as Little Sugar
    2023
    The Gold (TV Series) · as Kenny Noye
    2023
    David Copperfield (TV Series) · as Cast
    2022
    The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV Series) · as Forodwaith Sauron
    2022
    Slow Horses (TV Series) · as River Cartwright
    2021
    Benediction · as Siegfried Sassoon
    2020
    Small Axe (TV Series) · as Ian Macdonald
    2020
    Kindred · as Thomas
    2020
    Capone · as Crawford
    2019
    Fighting with My Family · as Zak 'zodiac' Knight
    2018
    Mary Queen of Scots · as Lord Darnley
    2018
    The Long Song (TV Series) · as Robert
    2018
    Calibre · as Vaughn
    2017
    England Is Mine · as Steven Patrick Morrissey
    2017
    Dunkirk · as Collins
    2016
    Tommy's Honour · as Tommy Morris
    2016
    A United Kingdom · as Tony Benn
    2016
    Denial · as James Libson
    2016
    War & Peace (2016) (TV Series) · as Nikolai Rostov
    2015
    Pan · as Dobkin
    2015
    Wolf Hall (TV Series) · as Thomas Wyatt
    2014
    The Passing Bells (TV Series) · as Michael
    2014
    '71 · as Thommo
    2014
    Ghosts · as Oswald Alving
    2013
    The Tunnel (TV Series) · as Adam Roebuck
    2013
    2012
    Mrs Biggs · as Alan Wright
    2012
    Mrs. Biggs (TV Series) · as Alan Wright

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