Andrea Lowe

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Andrea Lowe
Born (1975-01-01) 1 January 1975 (age 50)
Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
OccupationActress
PartnerTerry Betts
Children1

Andrea Lowe (born 1 January 1975) is an English TV, film, and theatre actress. Lowe got her first major role in the Harold Pinter play The Birthday Party at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. She has played numerous roles on television, stage, and film. However, she is most known for her 5-year turn as Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot in the ITV series DCI Banks (2011–2016).

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Early life

Lowe was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire [1] on 1 January 1975. [2] She attended Redhill Comprehensive School, [3] [4] the Lesley Reason School of Dance in Gedling [4] and the Carlton TV acting academy. [2] She also performed with the theatre group, Acorn. [1] [3] Lowe later studied English and theatre in London [1] at Goldsmiths College. [4]

Career

Lowe started her theatre career at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in the play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. [1]

In 1993, she had her first film role, alongside Samantha Morton, in the musical comedy drama The Token King, set in a high school in Nottingham. Among her extensive work since then, Lowe guest-starred in two episodes of the second season of The Tudors in which she played Lady Eleanor Luke, a fictional noblewoman who was briefly the mistress of Henry VIII, and played Vicky in the 2009 TV film, The Unloved.

Lowe played the role of Annie Cabbot for 5 years in the British television network ITV series DCI Banks (2011–2016), having also played the role in its pilot, DCI Banks: Aftermath (2010). Lowe was absent for much of the second season as she and her character were on maternity leave. [5]

Lowe starred in Alan Ayckbourn's play How the Other Half Loves alongside Jenny Seagrove and Jason Merrells at the Duke of York's Theatre, the West End theatre, on St Martin's Lane, London in 2016. In 2023, she starred in Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre. [6]

Film work

TV work

Selected theatre work

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nottingham – Features – Andrea Lowe, star of Rescue Me. BBC (5 March 2002). Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  2. 1 2 "My life of crime, by DCI Banks' right-hand woman". Yorkshire Post. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2025. Born in Arnold, in Nottinghamshire, she celebrated her 40th birthday on New Year's Day. There wasn't any acting in the family, but Andrea showed a talent for performing, and was a keen student at the then Carlton TV acting academy. Her first professional stage appearance was at the Sheffield Crucible theatre
  3. 1 2 "BBC - Nottingham - Features - Andrea's Lowe-down on TV drama". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "DCI Banks: Nottingham actress Andrea Lowe returns in ITV show". Nottinghamshire Live. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  5. ↑ Dowling, Tim (10 October 2012). "TV review: DCI Banks; Great British Food Revival". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Dark comedy of buried trauma" . Islington Gazette. 18 May 2023. p. 15. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
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