John Patrick Lowrie

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John Patrick Lowrie
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Lowrie at the 2017 Game On Expo
Born (1952-06-28) June 28, 1952 (age 71)
Education Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD)
OccupationVoice actor
Years active1997–present
Spouse
(m. 1986)

John Patrick Lowrie (born June 28, 1952) is an American voice actor best known for voicing the Sniper in Team Fortress 2 and various characters in Dota 2 . He has played Sherlock Holmes in the radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes since 2001.

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Career

Lowrie has performed roles in video games such as The Suffering and The Suffering: Ties That Bind , Total Annihilation and its expansions, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way . Lowrie is mostly recognized for his voice acting in Valve games such as Team Fortress 2 , Half-Life 2 , Half-Life 2: Episode One , Half-Life 2: Episode Two , Left 4 Dead , Dota 2 , and Artifact . [1]

He is noted for playing the roles of the Sniper in the online first-person shooter game Team Fortress 2, Agent Gray in the MMORPG The Matrix Online , as well as Odessa Cubbage and the male citizens in Half-Life 2.

Lowrie has played Sherlock Holmes in the radio drama series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the program Imagination Theatre since 2001. He also voiced Holmes in the program's related radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . He and Lawrence Albert, who voices Dr. Watson on the program, are the longest-running audio Holmes and Watson team in American radio history. [2]

In 2011, he published a science fiction novel titled Dancing with Eternity. An audiobook version narrated by Lowrie and his wife Ellen McLain was released in April 2014. [3]

Personal life

His adolescence was spent in Boulder, Colorado, where he attended various high schools briefly before joining the United States Navy. He studied for a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Indiana University School of Music. He has been married to Ellen McLain since 1986, [4] and has voiced characters alongside her in Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, and Dota 2. [5]

Works

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997 Betrayal in Antara Tyre, Enkudi, Mackey [6]
Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Artimice J. Bigpig [7]
Total Annihilation Narrator
1998 Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency
Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics
Police Quest: SWAT 2 Tammany, Officer, Security Guard, Hostage [8]
2000 The Operative: No One Lives Forever Bruno Lawrie
2002 No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way
2004 The Suffering Guard
Half-Life 2 Odessa Cubbage, Male citizens [7]
2005 The Matrix Online Agent Gray
FATENarrator
The Suffering: Ties That Bind The Man [7]
2006 Half-Life 2: Episode One Male citizens [7]
2007 Half-Life 2: Episode Two Griggs / Male citizens [7]
Team Fortress 2 Sniper [7]
2008 Left 4 Dead Houseboat Radio
2009 F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Harold Keegan
inFamous Warden Harms
Halo 3: ODST Kinsler
2010 Halo: Reach Sword Control
2011 The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Beleram
2013 Dota 2 Ancient Apparition, Dark Seer, Doom, Earthshaker, Pudge, Shadow Fiend, Storm Spirit, Voice of the International Announcer [7]
SpaceVentureTBA
Planetary Annihilation Narrator
2018 Artifact Dark Seer, Earthshaker, Storm Spirit, Shadow Fiend
2019 The Church in the Darkness Isaac Walker [9]

Animation

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008Meet the SniperSniperAnimated Team Fortress 2 short

Books

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