Jack Andrew Lowden (born 2 June 1990) is a Scottish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received two BAFTA Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Lowden has portrayed River Cartwright in the Apple TV crime series Slow Horses (2020–), for which he has received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He has also acted in the miniseries The Passing Bells (2014), War & Peace (2016), and The Long Song (2018). On film, he won two BAFTA Scotland Awards for his roles in Calibre (2018) and Benediction (2021). Other films include '71 (2014), Tommy's Honour (2016), England Is Mine (2017), Dunkirk (2017), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and Fighting with My Family (2019).

On stage, Lowden played Eric Liddell in the play Chariots of Fire (2012), and Oswald in Richard Eyre's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (2013), the later of which earned him a Laurence Olivier Award and an Ian Charleson Award.

Slow Horses and beyond (2020–present)

Lowden was announced to star in the Apple TV series Slow Horses in December 2020. He reprised his role for seasons two, three, four, five, and six. He was nominated at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2024 as Outstanding Supporting Actor in A Drama Series.

He joined Duncan Jones' upcoming film Rogue Trooper. In April 2025, it was announced that Lowden was cast as Mr. Darcy in Netflix's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, to be released in 2026. Lowden will star as Bernie Gunther in Apple TV's period detective series Berlin Noir, based on Philip Kerr's novels.

In September 2026, his Slow Horses co-star Gary Oldman suggested that Lowden had been shortlisted to star as the next James Bond. According to Deadline, he is scheduled to screen test for the role in October 2026.

Personal life

Since 2018, Lowden has been in a relationship with Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, his co-star in Mary Queen of Scots.[85] In July 2024, Irish Independent reported that the couple had married in Edinburgh.[86] Ronan gave birth to their first child in September 2025.

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