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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 Hank McCoy/Beast in X-Men: Sentinels
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The film reveals the genesis of the Sentinels as industrialist Bolivar Trask begins designing the massive, mutant-hunting robots. Desperate to mass-produce his creation, Trask forms an alliance with Ultron. Unbeknownst to the human, Ultron is manipulating him as a puppet, using Trask's resources to build a mechanical army intended to eventually annihilate all of humanity. As the newly forged Sentinels deploy, the X-Men mobilize to prevent the total eradication of mutant life. The team, reinforced by Wolverine, Colossus, and Gambit, launches an all-out assault against the robotic legions. Through sheer tactical skill and raw power, the heroes manage to dismantle the Sentinel threat, breaking through the metallic defense lines to finally corner Trask.The victory swiftly shifts into a tense ideological confrontation at the core of the X-Men. Cyclops commands Logan to stand down and prepare Trask for transfer, intending to hand over evidence of mass murder to S.H.I.E.L.D. to ensure a legal trial. Appalled by Trask's atrocities, Wolverine takes matters into his own hands and executes the villain on the spot. This unilateral execution infuriates Cyclops, who fears such ruthless tactics will permanently ruin the X-Men's public image and equate them with the villainous Brotherhood of Mutants. He fiercely reminds Logan that he cannot make major team decisions autonomously. Wolverine remains unrepentant, firing back that a monster responsible for killing hundreds of mutants does not deserve to live. This quiet, philosophical fracture highlights the growing emotional distance and opposing moral compasses of the team's two most prominent leaders, permanently altering the dynamic of the X-Men.