Jack Lowden was born in Chelmsford, Essex, the son of Gordon and Jacquie Jack Lowden.
20 Facts About Jack Lowden
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Jack Lowden grew up in the Scottish village of Oxton.
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Jack Lowden has stated that his personal ambition since childhood was actually to be a footballer.
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When he was 10, Jack Lowden's parents enrolled him in the Scottish Youth Theatre in Edinburgh.
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Jack Lowden performed regularly at the Galashiels Amateur Operatic Society, where he played the lead in a 2008 production of The Boy Friend.
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Jack Lowden received a BA in acting from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in 2011.
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In 2009, at the age of 18, Jack Lowden starred in a television advertisement for Irn-Bru, sending up High School Musical.
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From 9 May 2012 to 5 January 2013, Jack Lowden starred as Scottish runner and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, the stage adaptation of the film of the same name.
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Jack Lowden's performance was widely praised, including by Libby Purves in The Times.
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In 2014, Jack Lowden received both the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the Ian Charleson Award, for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
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Jack Lowden performed Orestes in Electra at the Old Vic in the autumn of 2014.
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Jack Lowden portrayed British politician Tony Benn in a supporting role in A United Kingdom, a 2016 film about Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams Khama.
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Jack Lowden played a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, one of the leading roles, in Christopher Nolan's WorldWarII film Dunkirk, released in July 2017.
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Jack Lowden co-starred with Martin McCann in a Scottish thriller, Calibre, which began filming in November 2016, debuted at the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and was released globally on Netflix on 29 June 2018.
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An Olivier Award-winning stage actor now settling into a quietly potent, empathetic screen presence, Jack Lowden impressively holds it together through all these key changes, even when his character emphatically does not.
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On stage, from 28 September to 24 November 2018, Jack Lowden starred opposite Hayley Atwell in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, at the Donmar Warehouse in London, directed by Josie Rourke.
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Jack Lowden portrayed Lord Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots, opposite Saoirse Ronan and directed by theatre director Josie Rourke, and Zak "Zodiac" Bevis in the 2019 comedy-drama WWE film Fighting with My Family, opposite Florence Pugh and directed by Steve Merchant.
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In February 2019, Jack Lowden teamed up with Beta Cinema to form his own production company, Reiver Pictures, based in Edinburgh.
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From 2019 to 2021, Jack Lowden resided in Leith, Edinburgh, before moving back to his native Scottish Borders in May 2021.