Jack Lowden

Jack Andrew Lowden (born June 2, 1990) is a Scottish actor. After a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success came in the 2016 BBC miniseries *War & Peace*, which led to starring roles in feature films. He has portrayed River Cartwright in the Apple TV series *Slow Horses* since 2020, earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Lowden played Eric Liddell in the 2012 play *Chariots of Fire* in London. In 2014, he received an Olivier Award and the Ian Charleson Award for his performance as Oswald in Richard Eyre's 2013 adaptation of Ibsen's *Ghosts*.

In 2013, Lowden began taking on substantial roles in British television series and feature films, including *The Tunnel* (2013) and *'71* (2014). He also starred in the BBC miniseries *The Passing Bells* (2014) and *War & Peace* (2016). Additional screen roles include playing golfing legend Tommy Morris in *Tommy's Honour* (2016); portraying 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*.