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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.
Jack Lowden
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for Bobby Elliott in The Hollies: The Air That I Breathe (Biopic)
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"The Hollies: The Air That I Breathe" is a drama about brotherhood, ambition, and the geometry of sound. The film begins in the grimy, industrial clubs of Manchester in 1962, where childhood friends Allan Clarke and Graham Nash discover that their voices blend into a perfect, "third voice" harmony. Unlike the rough-and-tumble Rolling Stones or the cheeky Beatles, The Hollies are portrayed as musical architects—disciplined, sharp-suited, and obsessed with creating the perfect pop song. The central conflict arises as the 60s turn psychedelic. While Allan Clarke wants to continue dominating the charts with hit after hit ("Bus Stop," "Carrie Anne"), Graham Nash feels the pull of the counterculture and artistic experimentation, gazing longingly toward America and the Laurel Canyon scene. The film dissects the painful divorce of a musical partnership when Nash quits to form Crosby, Stills & Nash, leaving Clarke and the band terrified of obsolescence. The climax focuses on the band's reinvention, the emotional recording of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (with a young Elton John on piano), and their ultimate survival as the band that kept playing when everyone else fell apart.
