Jack Lowden
Jack Lowden | |
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Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (BA) | |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2010–present |
Partner | Saoirse Ronan (2018–present) |
Jack Andrew Lowden (born 2 June 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. He has received several awards including two
Lowden starred as
His screen projects since War & Peace have included the title role as golfing legend
Early life
Lowden was born in
When he was 10, Lowden's parents enrolled him in the
Career
2009–2011
In 2009, at the age of 18, Lowden starred in a television advertisement for Irn-Bru, sending up High School Musical.[20] In 2010 he had a small part as the character Nick Fairclough on an episode of the Glasgow-set television series Being Victor.[21][22]
In 2010–11, Lowden was the lead character, Cammy, in the
The Black Watch production toured to London (Barbican), Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Belfast, and in the U.S. to New York City, Washington, Chicago, Austin, and Chapel Hill.[4][23] UK reviewers deemed Lowden "a clearly hugely promising young actor"[24] "who carries off this amazing start to his career with assurance and maturity".[25] In the U.S., The Washington Post described him as "quietly charismatic" and a "stand-out";[26] this was echoed by the Chicago Sun-Times, which called him "easily charismatic";[27] and the Chicago Tribune noted his "rich and finely detailed work".[28]
2012–2015
From 9 May 2012 to 5 January 2013, Lowden starred as Scottish runner and missionary
Onscreen, in 2012 he appeared in the
In 2014, Lowden received both the
In June 2014,
He performed
On television he starred as one of the two leads in the 2014 World War I BBC drama series The Passing Bells. It is the story of two youths, one from Germany and one from the UK, who enlist as soldiers at the beginning of the war.[46][47]
2016–present
Lowden portrayed Nikolai Rostov, one of the main characters, in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace.[7][48] The 6-part miniseries, which was broadcast around the world and positively reviewed,[49][50] garnered Lowden the most exposure he had had thus far in his career.[7][51]
In film he played the title role in Tommy's Honour (2016), about legendary Scottish golfing champion Old Tom Morris, played by Peter Mullan, and his complex and bittersweet relationship with his son Tom "Tommy" Morris, Jr.; Lowden was nominated for Best Film Actor at the 2016 BAFTA Scotland Awards for his performance.[52][53][54] He also portrayed British politician Tony Benn in a supporting role in A United Kingdom, a 2016 film about Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams Khama. In another supporting role, he was one of star Rachel Weisz's character's attorneys in Denial (2016), a fact-based legal-drama film about Holocaust denial which also starred Andrew Scott.[55]
In April 2016, he was a finalist in the entertainment category at the 11th Young Scot Awards.[56] In November 2016, the UK arts and entertainment magazine The List featured Lowden as one of The Hot 100 2016.[57]
He played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, one of the leading roles, in Christopher Nolan's World War II film Dunkirk, released in July 2017.[58][59][60] And he portrayed Morrissey in a biopic of the singer titled England Is Mine, written and directed by Mark Gill;[61] the film, which co-stars Jessica Brown Findlay, premiered at the closing gala of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 2 July 2017 and went into wide release in August 2017.[62]
He co-starred with
On stage, from 28 September to 24 November 2018, Lowden starred opposite Hayley Atwell in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, at the Donmar Warehouse in London, directed by Josie Rourke. It was a unique gender-reversal production of the work, and he and Atwell alternated the roles of Angelo and Isabella during the play.[68][69][70] On television, in December 2018 he co-starred with Tamara Lawrance and Hayley Atwell, in a three-part BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel The Long Song, about a slave on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica; the piece was filmed on location in the Dominican Republic.[10][71]
He portrayed
In February 2019 Lowden teamed up with Beta Cinema to form his own production company, Reiver Pictures, based in Edinburgh.[74] This led to the production of a psychological thriller, Kindred, in which Lowden also starred alongside Tamara Lawrance and Fiona Shaw.[74] His most recent project is that of portraying Siegfried Sassoon in the 2022 biopic Benediction.
He joined Duncan Jones' upcoming film Rogue Trooper [75]
Personal life
From 2019 to 2021 Lowden resided in Leith, Edinburgh, before moving back to his native Scottish Borders in May 2021.[76][3][77] He is an outspoken supporter of Scottish independence.[78][79]
Since 2018 he has been in a relationship with Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, his co-star in Mary Queen of Scots.[80] An Instagram post in July 2023 sparked speculation that they are engaged.[81]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2014 | '71 | Thompson | |
Ghosts | Oswald | Filmed performance of West End play
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2016 | Tommy's Honour | Tom Morris, Jr. | |
A United Kingdom | Tony Benn | ||
Denial | James Libson | ||
2017 | Dunkirk | Collins | |
England Is Mine | Morrissey | ||
2018 | Calibre | Vaughn | |
Mary Queen of Scots | Lord Darnley | ||
2019 | Fighting with My Family | Zak Bevis | |
2020 | Capone | Crawford | |
Kindred | Thomas | Also co-producer | |
2021 | Benediction | Siegfried Sassoon | |
2025 | Rogue Trooper | Gunner | Post-production |
Ella McCay | Filming | ||
TBA | Tornado | Little Sugar | Filming |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2010 | Being Victor | Nick Fairclough | Episode: #1.3 |
2012 | Mrs Biggs | Alan Wright | 2 episodes |
2013 | The Tunnel | Adam Roebuck | Recurring (10 episodes) |
2014 | The Passing Bells | Michael | Miniseries |
2016 | War & Peace | Nikolai Rostov | Miniseries |
2018 | The Long Song | Robert Goodwin | 3-part TV film |
2020 | Small Axe
|
Ian Macdonald
|
Mini-series; episode: Mangrove |
2022–present | Slow Horses | River Cartwright | TV series |
2023 | The Gold | Kenneth Noye | Drama about the £26 million gold bullion Brink's-Mat robbery |
Theatre credits
Year | Title | Role | Director | Playwright | Theatre |
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2010–11 | Black Watch | Cammy | John Tiffany | Gregory Burke | National Theatre of Scotland touring UK/U.S. |
2012 | Chariots of Fire | Eric Liddell | Edward Hall | Mike Bartlett Colin Welland |
Hampstead Theatre Gielgud Theatre |
2013–14 | Ghosts | Oswald | Richard Eyre | Henrik Ibsen | Trafalgar Studios
|
2014 | Electra
|
Orestes | Ian Rickson | Sophocles | Old Vic
|
2018 | Measure for Measure | Angelo Isabella |
Josie Rourke | Shakespeare
|
Donmar Warehouse |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2014 | Ian Charleson Awards | Ghosts | Won | |
2014 | Laurence Olivier Award
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Won | |
2016 | Young Scot Awards | Entertainment | War & Peace | Nominated |
2016 | British Academy Scotland Awards | Best Actor in Film | Tommy's Honour | Nominated |
2018 | Calibre | Won | ||
2019 | British Academy Scotland Awards | Best Actor in Film | Mary Queen of Scots | Nominated |
2020 | British Academy Film Awards | Rising Star Award | Himself | Nominated |
2021 | British Academy Scotland Awards | Best Actor in Television | Small Axe: Mangrove | Nominated |
2022 | British Academy Scotland Awards | Best Actor in Film | Benediction | Won |
2023 | British Academy Television Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Slow Horses | Nominated |
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Having now achieved the level of fame where public transport is a no-go, she opts to live as quietly as possible between Dublin, London, and the north of England, with her long-term boyfriend Jack Lowden, another Scottish actor.
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External links
- Jack Lowden at IMDb
- May 2012 BBC Radio 4 interview (2:20 to 13:00)
- 3-minute video segment from 2014 performance in Ibsen's Ghosts
- Ghosts co-star and fellow Olivier winner Lesley Manville on Jack Lowden (April 2014)
- Profile in Interview (April 2017)
- "From Dunkirk To Morrissey, Jack Lowden On Being The One To Watch RN" (InStyle, 31 July 2017)