Jack Lowden

Acting

Jack Lowden

Born
(age 36)
Birthplace
Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
Credits
41 titles

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.

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Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 40

YearTitleRole
TBA Untitled Berlin Noir Series TV Bernie Gunther
2026 Pride and Prejudice TV Mr. Darcy (6 ep)
2026 Rogue Trooper Film Gunnar (voice)
2026 Vote Gavin Lyle Film Gavin Lyle
2025 Ella McCay Film Ryan Newell
2025 National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step Film Luka
2025 Tornado Film Little Sugar
2023 The Gold TV Kenny Noye (12 ep)
2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg TV Self (1 ep)
2022 The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV Forodwaith Sauron (1 ep)
2022 Slow Horses TV River Cartwright (36 ep)
2021 Benediction Film Siegfried Sassoon
2020 Small Axe TV Ian MacDonald (1 ep)
2020 Kindred Film Thomas
2020 Capone Film Crawford
2020 Return to Real Kashmir FC Film Self
2019 Fighting with My Family Film Zak 'Zodiac' Knight
2018 The Long Song TV Robert (3 ep)
2018 Mary Queen of Scots Film Lord Darnley
2018 Calibre Film Vaughn
2017 England Is Mine Film Steven Patrick Morrissey
2017 Dunkirk Film Collins
2017 Tommy's Honour Film Tommy Morris
2017 The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth Film Hunter
2016 A United Kingdom Film Tony Benn
2016 Denial Film James Libson
2016 War and Peace TV Nikolai Rostov (6 ep)
2015 Pan Film Dobkin
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV Self (2 ep)
2015 Wolf Hall TV Thomas Wyatt (1 ep)
2014 The Passing Bells TV Michael (5 ep)
2014 '71 Film Thommo
2014 Ghosts Film Oswald Alving
2013 The Tunnel TV Adam Roebuck (10 ep)
2013 uwantme2killhim? Film Henry
2012 Mrs Biggs Film Alan Wright
2012 Mrs Biggs TV Alan Wright (2 ep)
2010 Being Victor TV Nick Fairclough (1 ep)
2007 The Graham Norton Show TV Self (2 ep)
1944 Golden Globe Awards TV Self - Nominee (1 ep)

Crew credits 3

YearTitleJob
2024 The Outrun Film Producer
2021 Benediction Film Executive Producer
2020 Kindred Film Producer
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