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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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • '71
  • Denial
  • England Is Mine
  • U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
  • Mrs. Biggs

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)

Featured Videos

  • Fighting With My Family: Jack Lowden On His Name And Character
    Fighting With My Family: Jack Lowden On His Name And CharacterFighting with My FamilyBehind the Scenes
  • Jack Lowden On Playing His Character
    Jack Lowden On Playing His CharacterA United KingdomBehind the Scenes

Jack Lowden 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
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

2025
82nd Golden Globe Awards · as Self - Nominee
2024
The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Nominee
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV Series) · as Self
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self
2012
Sunday Brunch (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2007
The Graham Norton Show (TV Series) · as Self
2005
Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self
1952
Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1944
Golden Globe Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee

2024
2021
Benediction · as Executive Producer
2020

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