--- name: "Jack Lowden" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-lowden" fi1m_id: "jack-lowden" imdb_id: "nm4110963" tmdb_id: 1334638 wikidata_id: "Q6113745" roles: ["Actor"] born: "2 June 1990" reviewed_on_fi1m: 12 average_fi1m_score: 73 average_as: "actor" average_over: 11 updated: "2026-10-21T04:27:36.568105+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Jack Lowden ## Identity Jack Lowden - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-lowden - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jack-lowden - **IMDb ID:** nm4110963 - **TMDB ID:** 1334638 - **Wikidata ID:** Q6113745 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lowden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6113745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4110963/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334638 Actor. Born 2 June 1990 in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 2 June 1990, Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK - **Active:** 2012–present - **Also known as:** Jack Andrew Lowden - **Titles on Fi1m:** 12: 11 acting, 1 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Saoirse Ronan](https://film.one/person/saoirse-ronan.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 11 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 69 (8), 2020s 80 (4) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 71 across 9 titles - **Score spread:** 6 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 5 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 10, Action 3, Crime 3, History 2, War 2, Adventure 1 - **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $735m across 5 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lowden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6113745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4110963/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334638 ## Coming up - *Pride and Prejudice* (2026-12-03), as Mr. Darcy — [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice-2026.md) ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Outrun*](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md) (72), [*Denial*](https://film.one/film/denial.md) (64) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Small Axe*](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md) (88) - **Apple TV:** [*Slow Horses*](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) (82) - **BritBox:** [*Mrs Biggs*](https://film.one/tv/mrs-biggs.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Jack Lowden > Jack Lowden plays men who are not quite good enough and know it, and he plays the knowing without asking to be forgiven for it. In *Slow Horses* that makes him the still centre of a very good series; we are waiting for a film that asks as much. The first episode of *Slow Horses* (2022) spends its opening minutes running River Cartwright through a mistake at full tilt, so that we know how good he might have been, and then sits him at a desk going through a journalist's rubbish. Jack Lowden plays the rest of the series from that desk. River is the one officer in Slough House who still thinks he might get out, and Lowden plays the hope as faintly embarrassing, a thing River would rather nobody had noticed. It is the right choice, and it is the choice he keeps making. He came to the screen from the stage: *Black Watch* in 2010, Oswald in *Ghosts* in 2013, then Nikolai Rostov in *War and Peace* (2016), which is where most people first saw him. The film parts followed: Collins in *Dunkirk* (2017), Vaughn in *Calibre* (2018), Siegfried Sassoon in *Benediction* (2021), Terence Davies's last film and the one time he has been handed a whole picture to carry. Since 2022 he has been River across several runs, opposite Gary Oldman, with theatre in between. Nothing about this was fast, and he does not seem to mind. What he is good at is frustration. The men he plays are sarcastic, flawed, a little short of the full article, and he has said as much himself: "I never trust those people that are a complete package." In *Slow Horses* that is the whole job. Oldman's Jackson Lamb is the reason the series works, and the office around River is cast with care and given the best lines; Lowden holds the middle and lets them have it. We were on his side within those opening minutes and stayed there through six episodes of being told he was a failure, and we think it is because he never once plays for our sympathy. He plays a man who wants to be better, is not, and is annoyed about it. *Small Axe* (2020) shows the other thing he can do, which is take a small part and not push. In *Mangrove* he is Ian MacDonald, the barrister who takes the rest of the defence once Letitia Wright's Altheia Jones and Malachi Kirby's Darcus Howe have chosen to speak for themselves, and he gets the film's dry lines. He knows he is not the story. Shaun Parkes is the best thing in that film, and Lowden's part is to make Parkes's man look less alone in the courtroom, which he does, and then gets out of the way. The question is what comes after River. He has spent a decade playing men who are not quite the complete package, and he is now very good at it, which is exactly when an actor should be worried. Start with *Slow Horses*, and watch the office rather than the plot. Then wait, as we are, for someone to give him a film where he has to be the whole thing. ## Biography Jack Andrew Lowden is a Scottish actor and producer. Born on 2 June 1990 in Chelmsford, Essex, to Scottish parents, he grew up in the Scottish Borders and graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011. He began his career on stage, winning the Laurence Olivier Award and Ian Charleson Award for his role in *Ghosts* (2014). His screen work includes *'71* (2014), *War & Peace* (2016), *Dunkirk* (2017), *Calibre* (2018, for which he won a BAFTA Scotland Award), *Mary Queen of Scots* (2018) and *Fighting with My Family* (2019). Since 2020 he has starred as River Cartwright in the series *Slow Horses*, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Lowden co-produced *The Outrun* (2024) and formed the production company Sad Dog with his wife, actress Saoirse Ronan, whom he married in 2024. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (12) ### Performed in (11) — the average rests on these - *The Gold* (2023), Fi1m 80, as Kenneth Noye — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) - *Slow Horses* (2022), Fi1m 82, as River Cartwright — [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) - *Small Axe* (2020), Fi1m 88, as Ian MacDonald — [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md) - *Mary Queen of Scots* (2018), Fi1m 56, as Lord Darnley — [page](https://film.one/film/mary-queen-of-scots.md) - *Dunkirk* (2017), Fi1m 86, as Collins — [page](https://film.one/film/dunkirk.md) - *Denial* (2016), Fi1m 64, as James Libson — [page](https://film.one/film/denial.md) - *War and Peace* (2016), Fi1m 65, as Nikolai Rostov — [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md) - *Pan* (2015), Fi1m 38, as Dobkin — [page](https://film.one/film/pan.md) - *Wolf Hall* (2015), Fi1m 86, as Thomas Wyatt — [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md) - *'71* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Thommo — [page](https://film.one/film/71.md) - *Mrs Biggs* (2012), Fi1m 74, as Alan Wright — [page](https://film.one/tv/mrs-biggs.md) ### Produced (1) - *The Outrun* (2024), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Pride and Prejudice* (2026), series, as Mr. Darcy — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice-2026.md) - *Rogue Trooper* (2026), as Gunnar (voice) - *Vote Gavin Lyle* (2026), as Gavin Lyle - *Ella McCay* (2025), as Ryan Newell - *National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step* (2025), as Luka - *Tornado* (2025), as Little Sugar - *The Outrun* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-outrun.md) - *The Gold* (2023), series, as Kenny Noye, Kenneth Noye — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) - *The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power* (2022), series, as Forodwaith Sauron - *Slow Horses* (2022), series, as River Cartwright — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) - *Benediction* (2021), as Siegfried Sassoon · Executive Producer - *Small Axe* (2020), series, as Ian MacDonald — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/small-axe.md) - *Kindred* (2020), as Thomas · Producer - *Capone* (2020), as Crawford - *Return to Real Kashmir FC* (2020), Actor - *Fighting with My Family* (2019), as Zak 'Zodiac' Knight - *The Long Song* (2018), series, as Robert - *Mary Queen of Scots* (2018), as Lord Darnley — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/mary-queen-of-scots.md) - *Calibre* (2018), as Vaughn - *England Is Mine* (2017), as Steven Patrick Morrissey - *Dunkirk* (2017), as Collins — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/dunkirk.md) - *Tommy's Honour* (2017), as Tommy Morris - *The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth* (2017), as Hunter - *A United Kingdom* (2016), as Tony Benn - *Denial* (2016), as James Libson — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/denial.md) - *War and Peace* (2016), series, as Nikolai Rostov — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md) - *Pan* (2015), as Dobkin — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/pan.md) - *Wolf Hall* (2015), series, as Thomas Wyatt — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/wolf-hall.md) - *The Passing Bells* (2014), series, as Michael - *'71* (2014), as Thommo — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/71.md) - *Ghosts* (2014), as Oswald Alving - *The Tunnel* (2013), series, as Adam Roebuck - *uwantme2killhim?* (2013), as Henry - *Mrs Biggs* (2012), as Alan Wright - *Mrs Biggs* (2012), series, as Alan Wright — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/mrs-biggs.md) - *Untitled Berlin Noir Series*, series, as Bernie Gunther ## Gallery - ![Jack Lowden](https://film.one/media/person/763/gallery-70a107ff68b3.jpg) Jack Lowden — Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Jack_Lowden_at_the_2019_Mary_Queen_of_Scots_premiere_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Left to right: Actor Jack Lowden, composer Vangelis, actor James McArdle of the play Chariots of Fire at the London 2012 Olympics torch relay.](https://film.one/media/person/763/gallery-63b06f60ef9e.jpg) Left to right: Actor Jack Lowden, composer Vangelis, actor James McArdle of the play Chariots of Fire at the London 2012 Olympics torch relay. — Ian Patterson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Jack_Lowden%2C_Vangelis%2C_James_McArdle_at_the_London_2012_Olympics_torch_relay.jpg/1280px-Jack_Lowden%2C_Vangelis%2C_James_McArdle_at_the_London_2012_Olympics_torch_relay.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jack Lowden, Vangelis, and James McArdle watch the Olympic Torch Relay from the Gielgud Theatre, 26 July 2012.](https://film.one/media/person/763/gallery-5d58297f5ffb.jpg) Jack Lowden, Vangelis, and James McArdle watch the Olympic Torch Relay from the Gielgud Theatre, 26 July 2012. — Ian Patterson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Jack_Lowden%2C_Vangelis%2C_and_James_McArdle_watch_the_Olympic_Torch_Relay_from_the_Gielgud_Theatre%2C_26_July_2012.jpg/1280px-Jack_Lowden%2C_Vangelis%2C_and_James_McArdle_watch_the_Olympic_Torch_Relay_from_the_Gielgud_Theatre%2C_26_July_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jack Lowden at the England Is Mine Q&A(Genesis Cinema) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/763/gallery-bb8aaaa0e878.jpg) Jack Lowden at the England Is Mine Q&A(Genesis Cinema) (2017) — Ibsan73, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Jack_Lowden.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - 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