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Rob Lowe

FULL NAME	Robert Hepler Lowe
BORN	17 March 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
ASSOCIATION	Actor
NATIONALITY	American
HEIGHT	180 cm
REVIEWED ENTRIES	21 (19 rated)
MAX. RATING	½ (Class)
MIN. RATING	½
AVERAGE RATING	3.63

FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

BIO

Rob Lowe grew up in Dayton, Ohio, as the eldest son of a teacher/homemaker mother and a lawyer father. He was a rather introverted child, but after meeting Telly Savalas at a local event, he decided he wanted to become an actor. His first acting experience was doing summer stock theatre in Dayton. His parents divorced when he was young, and after a while his mother remarried and relocated Rob and his younger brother, Chad, to Malibu, California. It was here that the young Lowe befriended the Penn and Sheen families, becoming particularly close with Emilio Estevez.

Lowe became a regular on the TV-series A New Kind of Family in 1979 and enjoyed his first small bout of success. The series was short-lived, however, and Lowe had to make do with a few smaller parts before joining Estevez and a host of other aspiring teenage actors (among others Tom Cruise, who was staying with the Sheen family at the time) to audition for Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders in 1982. Lowe landed one of the principal parts in the film (although much of it was eventually cut, according to Lowe), and subsequently he, along with other "Outsiders" such as C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, plus Estevez and Cruise, became part of a group of much sought-after young talents in Hollywood – a groupthat was later to become more concentrated and eventually dubbed "The Brat Pack" by a journalist from New York magazine.

Over the next few years, Lowe went from aspiring young actor to one of Hollywood's top heartthrobs, starring in romantic comedies such as Class, The Hotel New Hampshire, St. Elmo's Fire, and About Last Night.... Although he displayed enough talent to have been able to transform his sex-symbol status into a more lasting one as a serious actor, poor role choices (including a couple of commercial disasters) and a debauched personal life – which included an addiction to alcohol and sex – as well as a series of brief and highly public relationships with, among others, Melissa Gilbert, Jennifer Grant, Nastassja Kinski and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, plus a highly publicized sex-tape scandal involving Lowe and a 15-year-old girl, ensured that he was largely out of demand by the early 1990s. It was around this time that Lowe changed his habits, sobered up, and married Sheryl Berkoff, now his wife of over 30 years.

Having resurrected his career towards the end of the 1990s – most notably through the successful TV series The West Wing – Lowe now continues to work regularly in television and film, often in supporting roles. His impeccable looks still serve him well, and he has also demonstrated a solid knack for comedy, giving fine performances in such films as Wayne's World, Thank You For Smoking, The Invention of Lying, and Behind the Candelabra.

AWARDS

No awards recorded...

CHARACTER QUOTES

Thank You For Smoking (2006)

Jeff Megall (Rob Lowe): "Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make."
Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart): "Cigarettes in space?"
Jeff Megall (Rob Lowe): "It's the final frontier, Nick."
Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart): "But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?"
Jeff Megall (Rob Lowe): "Probably... But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue: 'Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever device'."