Jack Lowden
Scottish actor · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1990 · age 36
A Scottish actor who broke through on stage before War & Peace opened the screen door in 2016, now anchoring Slow Horses as the dogged, perpetually put-upon River Cartwright - a role that's earned him Emmy and Golden Globe nods and made him the spine of one of Apple TV's sharpest dramas.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Pride and PrejudiceSeries, Mr Darcy
Rogue TrooperFilm, 2026Gunnar (voice)2025
Ella McCayFilm, Ryan Newell2024
The OutrunFilm, Producer2023
The GoldSeries, Kenny Noye2021
BenedictionFilm, Producer2020
Small AxeSeries, Ian MacDonald
CaponeFilm, 2020Crawford2019
Fighting with My FamilyFilm, Zak 'Zodiac' Knight2018
The Long SongSeries, Robert
CalibreFilm, 2018Vaughn2017
DunkirkFilm, Collins2016
War and PeaceSeries, Nikolai Rostov
A United KingdomFilm, 2016Tony Benn2015
PanFilm, Dobkin2014Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAward
The Passing BellsSeries, 2014Michael
'71Film, 2014Thommo
GhostsFilm, 2014Oswald Alving2013
The TunnelSeries, Adam Roebuck
uwantme2killhim?Film, 2013Henry2012
Mrs BiggsSeries, Alan Wright
Mrs BiggsFilm, 2012Alan Wright2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries1990Born2 June 1990People around Jack
Close ties
Aneurin Barnard Also in Dunkirk, War and Peace and Rogue Trooper
Anton Lesser Also in A United Kingdom and Benediction
Dwayne Johnson Produced Fighting with My Family (2019)
Christopher Nolan Produced Dunkirk (2017)
Hans Zimmer Wrote Dunkirk and Ella McCay
James L. Brooks Produced Ella McCay (2025)
David Oyelowo Produced A United Kingdom (2017)
Barry Keoghan Also in '71 and Dunkirk
Stephen Merchant Directed Fighting with My Family (2019)
Greg Berlanti Produced Pan (2015)
Jason Connery Directed Tommy's Honour (2016)
Ben Daniels Also in Benediction (2022)
Eric Fellner Produced Mary Queen of Scots (2019)
Andrew Davies Produced War and Peace (2016)
Euros Lyn Directed Pride and Prejudice
Amma Asante Directed A United Kingdom (2017)
Rick McCallum Produced A United Kingdom (2017)
Charlotte Brändström Directed Elven Kings Under the Sky (2024)
Tom Harper Directed War and Peace (2016)
Martin McCann Also in '71 and Calibre
Calam Lynch Also in Benediction and Dunkirk
Paul Webster Produced Pan (2015)
Mark Gill Directed England is Mine (2017)
Josie Rourke Directed Mary Queen of Scots (2019)
Known for
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Dunkirk 2017
Fighting with My Family 2019
Denial 2016
'71 2014
The Outrun 2024
Filmography 24
43 credits on file
Television 17
Media & music
Photos 4
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where Lowden studied.
Lowden, Vangelis, and co-star James McArdle (r) at the Gielgud Theatre for the stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire (2012)
Lowden and actress Saoirse Ronan (left) co-starred together in Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and co-produced The Outrun (2024). They also married in 2024.Awards
About this person
Jack Andrew Lowden was born 2 June 1990 and spent four years in theatre before cameras found him. He won an Olivier Award in 2014 for playing Oswald in Richard Eyre's Ghosts, then landed the part of Nikolai Rostov in the BBC's 2016 War & Peace - the break that carried him into features. He played Olympic runner Eric Liddell onstage in Chariots of Fire, golf prodigy Tommy Morris in Tommy's Honour, Morrissey in England Is Mine, an RAF pilot in Dunkirk, and Lord Darnley opposite Saoirse Ronan in Mary Queen of Scots. In 2018 he starred in Calibre, a Highland thriller that won him a BAFTA Scotland, and took a lead in the BBC's The Long Song as a Jamaican plantation owner. Since 2020 he's been River Cartwright in Slow Horses, the role that's defined him for a new audience and brought him into Emmy and Golden Globe territory.
