Robert Hepler Lowe was born on March 17,1964 and is an American actor, filmmaker, and podcast host.
54 Facts About Rob Lowe
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Rob Lowe made his acting debut at the age of 15 with ABC's short-lived sitcom A New Kind of Family.
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Robert Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Barbara, a teacher, and Charles 'Chuck' Davis Lowe, a trial lawyer.
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Rob Lowe's parents divorced when Lowe and his younger brother Chad were young.
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Rob Lowe is of German, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry.
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Rob Lowe grew up in Dayton, Ohio, in a "traditional American setting".
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Rob Lowe attended Oakwood Junior High School before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California, with his mother and brother.
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Rob Lowe got his first professional acting role in 1976 when he was 12 and still living in Dayton.
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Rob Lowe played an errand boy in a production of Sherlock Holmes at the Wright State University summer theater.
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Rob Lowe landed the part by calling every local theater and asking each if there was a part for a child in a play.
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In 1979, Rob Lowe landed the part of Tony Flanagan in the short-lived television comedy A New Kind of Family.
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Rob Lowe appeared in the music video for The Go-Go's song, "Turn to You".
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Rob Lowe then received his second Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance.
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Rob Lowe recalled meeting Paul Newman there, and that the older actor encouraged him to work in the theatre in 1993 when filming a British TV production of the Tennessee Williams play Suddenly, Last Summer with Dame Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson.
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Rob Lowe appeared in 1994's The Stand, based on Stephen King's book of the same name.
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Rob Lowe played Sam Seaborn in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003.
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Rob Lowe was drawn to the role because of his personal love of politics, and his longstanding friendship with Martin Sheen, who was cast as President Josiah Bartlet.
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In 2011, Rob Lowe stated on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he left the show because he did not feel he was being respected, when the other lead characters received a raise and he did not.
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Rob Lowe passed on the role of Derek Shepherd of Grey's Anatomy, which eventually went to Patrick Dempsey.
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In 2004, Rob Lowe starred in the TNT remake of the Stephen King miniseries Salem's Lot, which was the highest-rated cable program of that summer and the highest ratings TNT original programming had at the time.
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That same year, Rob Lowe starred in the miniseries Beach Girls on the Lifetime network, based on the Luanne Rice novel of the same name.
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Later, Rob Lowe filmed his supporting role as a movie agent in the 2006 independent film Thank You for Smoking.
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In January 2007, ABC announced that Rob Lowe would be staying on Brothers and Sisters as a "special guest star" for the rest of Season 1 after Rob Lowe's initial appearance on the show in November 2006 brought the best ratings and demographic showing for the show since its premiere.
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The storyline was wrapped up in the first episode of the fifth season; Rob Lowe did not appear in the episode.
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Rob Lowe has appeared in a televised advertisement for 'Visit California' with other celebrities, including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Rob Lowe had a supporting role in the 2009 movie The Invention of Lying and a leading role in Too Late to Say Goodbye.
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Rob Lowe is currently teaming up with 44 Blue to produce a reality series entitled Potomac Fever about young adults living in Washington, DC.
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In July 2010, it was announced that Rob Lowe would be providing the voice for the superhero Captain Marvel in the animated series, Young Justice.
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Rob Lowe portrayed Chris Traeger, the relentlessly upbeat city manager of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, for four seasons, before his character was written out of the show in 2014.
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Rob Lowe was so pleased with the show and his guest appearances on season 2 that he agreed to become a full-fledged cast member from there on out.
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In 2011, Rob Lowe guest starred in a recurring role on Showtime's comedy Californication.
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In 2011, Rob Lowe wrote a memoir titled Stories I Only Tell My Friends, which was released in May 2011.
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In 2014, Rob Lowe wrote a second book titled Love Life, which was released in April that year.
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In 2014, Rob Lowe starred in a pilot for the single-camera comedy The Pro as Ben Bertrahm, a former professional tennis player.
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In 2015, Rob Lowe starred in the satirical thriller Pocket Listing.
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Rob Lowe has been a commercial spokesman for DirecTV since fall 2014.
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In February 2015, Fox announced they had greenlit a pilot for the comedy The Grinder starring Rob Lowe and Fred Savage, and directed by Jake Kasdan.
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The series, in which Rob Lowe starred as a washed-up actor starting a new career as a lawyer, was cancelled after one season.
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In November 2015, Rob Lowe voiced Simba in the television pilot movie The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar.
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Rob Lowe continued to voice Simba for its subsequent series The Lion Guard.
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In December 2015, Rob Lowe was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Rob Lowe's star is located in front of the Musso, and Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Rob Lowe said in a statement that when he was a child, his grandfather took him to meet Harland Sanders.
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On March 19,2019, Rob Lowe began hosting the Fox competition series Mental Samurai where he serves as a producer.
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In September 2021 Rob Lowe launched a second podcast, a Parks and Recreation recap show called Parks and Recollection, alongside Parks and Rec writer and producer Alan Yang.
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Rob Lowe directed a short documentary named Madness in the Hills, which is about the mudslides that killed 23 people in Southern California in January 2018, including many friends and neighbors of Rob Lowe.
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Rob Lowe will offer commentary in The Andy Warhol Diaries, premiering on Netflix on March 9,2022.
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Rob Lowe has been married to makeup artist Sheryl Berkoff since 1991.
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Rob Lowe is a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Rams.
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Rob Lowe has maintained sobriety ever since, saying it was the best decision of his life.
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The press reported that court records showed that lawsuits filed by both nannies and Rob Lowe were dismissed in Santa Barbara.
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Rob Lowe was the first male spokesman for the 2000 Lee National Denim Day fundraiser, which raises money for breast cancer research and education.
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Rob Lowe is a founder of the Homeowner's Defense Fund, a Santa Barbara County non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to local control of land-use planning and transparency in government.
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In December 2017, Rob Lowe was chosen to receive the Horatio Alger Award for 2018.