Rob Lowe - Overview

Date of Birth: Mar 17, 1964

Place of Birth: Charlottesville, Virginia

Nationality: American

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Thin and wiry with delicate, somewhat androgynous features, Rob Lowe was inspired to become an actor after seeing a Dayton, Ohio production of "Oliver!" when he was ten years old. After his parents' divorce, he and younger brother Chad moved to L.A. with their mother. Lowe found work in TV commercials before landing the plum role of Eileen Brennan's son in the short-lived ABC sitcom "A New Kind of Family" (1979). After a spell of failed pilots and "Afterschool Specials", the young actor landed his first screen role as Patrick Swayze's brother in Francis Ford Coppola's paean to teenagers "The Outsiders" (1983). Later that year, Lowe traded on his good looks as a prep student whose mother engages in an affair with his roommate in "Class". He followed with a string of similar roles that made little demands of his acting abilities (i.e., "Oxford Blues" 1984, "Youngblood" 1986) and with several of his "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985) co-stars was lumped together and dubbed by wags as 'the Brat Pack'. Lowe won critical praise and a Golden Globe nomination for his turn as a ment... Read More

Filmography (28)

The Invention of Lying (2009)

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)

Stephen King's The Stand (2003)

View From the Top (2003)

The Specials (2000)

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Milestones (72)

2010
Joined the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation" as a state employees brought in to fix Pawnee's budgetary crisis

2006
Cast in a recurring role on ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" as a Republican senator and romantic interest for Calista Flockhart's Kitty

2006
Co-starred with Aaron Eckhart in Jason Reitman's satirical comedy, "Thank You for Smoking"

2006
Will reprise his role as Sam Seaborn, the senior political official for the final episodes of NBC's White House drama "The West Wing"

2006
Co-starred with Aaron Eckhart in Jason Reitman’s satirical comedy "Thank You for Smoking"

2006 - 2010
Cast on ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" as a Republican senator, Robert McCallister; left series after the fourth season

2006
Reprised his role as Sam Seaborn, the senior political official for the final episodes of NBC's "The West Wing"

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