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Jack Andrew Lowden (born June 2, 1990) is a Scottish actor. Following a four-year stage career, his first major international onscreen success was in the 2016 BBC miniseries War & Peace, which led to starring roles in feature films. Starring as River Cartwright in the Apple TV series Slow Horses since 2020, he has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Lowden starred as Eric Liddell in the 2012 play Chariots of Fire in London. In 2014, he won an Olivier Award and the Ian Charleson Award for his role as Oswald in Richard Eyre's 2013 adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts. In 2013, he began to take on substantial roles in British television series and feature films, including The Tunnel (2013) and '71 (2014). He also had leading roles in the BBC miniseries The Passing Bells (2014) and War & Peace (2016). Other screen roles include the title role as golfing legend Tommy Morris in Tommy's Honour (2016); the starring role of 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Lowden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
From Davin to the Eternity Gate, this is the Heresy as it should have been—five to six serialized, slow-burn seasons of pure, uncut catastrophe, not a lore anthology or Primarch power-scaling parade, but the Great Crusade’s golden promise rotting from within as the Warmaster takes the knife, the virus bombs eat loyalist lungs on Istvaan III, Prospero’s libraries burn under a brother’s axe, Calth’s sun dies in betrayal, Nuceria drowns in Angron’s ascension, Fulgrim perfects himself into damnation, Mortarion sells his sons for Nurgle’s embrace, Perturabo grinds the Fists into spiteful dust, and the Khan rides alone toward a father who never deserved him—then the Siege, Dorn’s walls cracking, Sanguinius’s wings broken on the Vengeful Spirit, the Emperor and Horus annihilating each other’s souls in a room full of dead dreams, and the Imperium hauled onto the Throne not as victory but as a corpse that will never be allowed to die; this is the tragedy not of good versus evil but of love too late, truth too heavy, and loyalty repaid in ash, where every brother’s bond becomes a wound, every honor is buried in black sand, and the only ending is the slow, grinding realization that the golden age was already dead the moment the Emperor stopped being a father and started being a god.
