Andrea Lowe
Encyclopedia
Andrea Lowe is an English actress.
's Crucible Theatre
in the play The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
.
In 1993 she had her first film role, alongside Samantha Morton
, in the musical comedy drama called The Token King, set in a high school in Nottingham. Lowe recently guest starred in two episodes of the second season of the
Showtime hit show The Tudors
in which she played Lady Eleanor Luke, a fictional nobelwoman who is briefly the mistress of Henry VIII
, and she played the role of Annie Cabbot in the British television network ITV
two-part TV-Series DCI Banks: Aftermath, an adaptation of the 2002 Peter Robinson
novel Aftermath
.
Career
She started her theatre career at the SheffieldSheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
's Crucible Theatre
Crucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre is a theatre built in 1971 and located in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. As well as theatrical performances, it is home to the most important event in professional snooker, the World Snooker Championship....
in the play The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party (play)
The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays...
by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
.
In 1993 she had her first film role, alongside Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton
Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress and film director. She began her performing career with guest roles in television shows such as Soldier Soldier and Boon before making her film debut in the 1997 drama film This Is the Sea, playing the character of Hazel Stokes...
, in the musical comedy drama called The Token King, set in a high school in Nottingham. Lowe recently guest starred in two episodes of the second season of the
Showtime hit show The Tudors
The Tudors
The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
in which she played Lady Eleanor Luke, a fictional nobelwoman who is briefly the mistress of Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
, and she played the role of Annie Cabbot in the British television network ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
two-part TV-Series DCI Banks: Aftermath, an adaptation of the 2002 Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (novelist)
Dr. Peter Robinson is an English crime writer, based in Canada. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks...
novel Aftermath
Aftermath (Peter Robinson novel)
Aftermath is the 14th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson, published in 2002 and is 12th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks series.- Adaptation :...
.
Film Work
- Route IrishRoute Irish (film)Route Irish is a 2010 drama-thriller film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. It is set in Liverpool and focuses on the consequences suffered by private security contractors after fighting in the Iraq War. The title comes from the Baghdad Airport Road, known as "Route Irish". The...
2010 (Sixteen Films) - Club Le Monde (Sarah) 2002 (Screen Production Associates)
- PandaemoniumPandaemonium (film)Pandaemonium is a 2000 film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the "Lyrical Ballads", and Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan.The film was...
(Edith Southey) 2000 (Mariner Films) - Threesome (Melanie) 2000 (Sugar & Water Films)
- Repeat After Me (Channel 4 Dogma Series; Ideal World)
- The Rover’s Return (Short End Films)
- The Perfect G (London Guildhall)
- The Token King (Channel 4)
- Snorted (Goldsmiths College)
TV work
- DCI BanksDCI BanksDCI Banks is a British crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. The series is based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson as Alan Banks.-Background:...
(series) (DS Annie Cabbot) 2011 - DCI Banks: Aftermath two episodes (DS Annie Cabbot) 2010
- Coronation StreetCoronation StreetCoronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
three episodes (Naomi) 2009 - The TudorsThe TudorsThe Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
Season Two Episodes 3 & 4 (Lady Eleonor Luke) 2008 - No HeroicsNo HeroicsNo Heroics is a British superhero-comedy television series, which began on 18 September 2008. The show is ITV2's first original sitcom. It was nominated for Best New British TV Comedy of 2008 at the British Comedy Awards.-Setting:...
Season One Episode 1 Supergroupie (Vicci) 2008 - Silent WitnessSilent WitnessSilent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
Episode Terror Parts 1&2 (Emily Wright) 2008 - TorchwoodTorchwoodTorchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
Season Two Episode Fragments (Katie) 2008 - MarpleMarple (TV series)Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Agatha Christie's Marple. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. She was replaced...
Ordeal By Innocence (Maureen) - Murphy's Law (Series 5)Murphy's Law (TV series)Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...
(Kim Goodall) 2007 - Where the Heart IsWhere the Heart Is (1997 TV series)Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite.First shown in 1997, it was created by Ashley Pharoah and Vicky Featherstone...
– (Zoë Phelps) 2006 - Cracker (Elaine) 2006
- Murder City – Death of a Ladies' Man (Helen Osborn) 2006
- The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
– Episodes 400 and 401 (Leigh Bevan) 2006 - Love SoupLove SoupLove Soup is a British television comedy-drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond . The series is written by David Renwick of One Foot in the Grave fame, and was produced by Verity Lambert...
– The Reflecting Pool (Tina) 2005 - A Thing Called Love (Liz Leech) 2004
- No AngelsNo Angels (TV series)No Angels is a critically acclaimed British television comedy drama series, produced by the independent production company World Productions for Channel 4, which ran for three seasons from 2004 to 2006. It was devised by Toby Whithouse.-Premise:...
– Episode #1.9 (Julia) 2004 - Fields of Gold (W.P.C.) 2002
- Rescue MeRescue Me (BBC TV series)Rescue Me is a British romantic comedy television series produced by Tiger Aspect and broadcast on BBC One in 2002. It was created, and principally written, by David Nicholls and stars Sally Phillips as Katie Nash, a woman who is recovering from a divorce while at the same time writing relationship...
(Melanie Woods) - Peak PracticePeak PracticePeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
– Suffer the Little Children (Zoë Thomson) 2001 - The Sleeper (Donna) 2000
- Nature Boy (Claire Whitaker) 2000
- Night and Day (BBC)
- Doctors – Episode Second Chance (Jackie Dean)
Selected theatre work
- Bash (Citizens Theatre Glasgow)
- A Day In Dull Armour (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)
- The Birthday PartyThe Birthday Party (play)The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays...
(Crucible Theatre Sheffield) - Lost and Found (River House Barn)
- Gong Donkeys (The Bush Theatre)