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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.
After the events of the Avengers, Thor returns to Asgard expecting to find his home unchanged. Instead, he discovers that Loki has seized the throne and declared himself King of Asgard. Believing his brother has betrayed both him and their father, Thor confronts Loki, but the new king refuses to surrender his position. Loki claims that Asgard needs a stronger ruler, while Thor insists that Odin must reclaim the throne. As Thor tries to convince Odin to confront Loki, a greater threat emerges. The Enchantress and the Executioner, powerful Asgardian enemies who secretly manipulated events on Earth, reveal that Baron Zemo was sent to eliminate Thor so they could gain greater power. With Zemo defeated, they now turn their attention directly toward Asgard. Realizing that he cannot face them alone, Thor seeks the help of Hercules, an old ally and powerful warrior who agrees to stand beside him. Together, Thor and Hercules confront the Enchantress and Executioner while Thor attempts to stop Loki from allowing Asgard to fall into their hands. The conflict forces Thor to prove that he is more than a warrior who wants the throne—he must prove that he is willing to sacrifice his own desire for power to protect his people. After a final battle, Thor defeats the Enchantress and Executioner and prevents their plan from succeeding. Loki is captured and imprisoned, while Odin remains the ruler of Asgard. But Thor is left questioning his brother’s true motives. Post credit: Loki sits imprisoned in Asgard. Thor visits him, demanding to know why he betrayed their father. Loki calmly tells him that he never intended to destroy Asgard. He took the throne because he was protecting it from something far worse—something even Odin cannot defeat.
