Rob Lowe Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Robert Lowe
Nationality American
Birth March 17, 1964 (Charlottesville – Virginia, USA)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Virginia, Rob Lowe began working as a model and then appeared in several television series including A New Kind of Family . At 18, his young physique and his charisma pushed the famous director Francis Ford Coppola to hire him alongside a slew of young talents ( Tom Cruise , Matt Dillon , Patrick Swayze , Emilio Estevez , etc.) in the very lucrative Outsiders (1983). The devastatingly charming actor continued his momentum with Class (id.), Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Oxford Blues (id.), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), Youngblood (1986) and above all About Yesterday Evening (id., his biggest success as a headliner), where he opposite Demi Moore and James Belushi . These numerous films helped to establish his reputation as Hollywood’s darling.

In 1988, after playing the role of a gigolo in the thriller Masquerade (which did not make any sparks at the box office), a scandal considerably affected his career: the discovery of a sex tape of his sexual antics with two young women, including one minor… Shunned by the public, critics and studios, his popularity then experienced a radical drop. In 1990, director Curtis Hanson still offered him a chance to bounce back with the lead role in Bad Influence , where he ventured to play a cold and skillful manipulator, capable of filming the murder he had just committed or the sexual antics of his future victim. But, still offended by his previous escapades, the public is not there. During the 1990s, Rob Lowe was forced to play supporting roles in various TV films, as was the case for example in Wayne’s World (1992), Austin Powers (1997) or Contact (id.).

If his film career is at a standstill, Rob Lowe gradually (like several former fallen stars of the 1980s) made a second career on the small screen in the 2000s. Some specialists even maintain that his notoriety has not never been as important (in the United States) as during this decade. We find him in several series, and constantly through recurring characters. It was first with the character of Sam Seaborn in At the White House (1999-2002), which Rob Lowe won back his audience for four consecutive seasons. Having then left the series because of a dispute with the producers concerning his salary, he agreed to reappear in two episodes of season 7. Furthermore, Rob Lowe became a real star again, thanks to the successful series Brothers and Sisters ( 2006 -2010), Californication (2011-2014) and Parks and Recreation (2010-2015).

While he obtained his star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame in 2015, Rob Lowe obtained a few main roles in series whose success was relative: You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), a dramatic comedy about the imminent end of the world which is hard to convince. With The Grinder (2015-2016), Rob Lowe tackles the exercise of mise en abyme: his character, Dean Sanderson, Jr., is an actor who decides to return to his hometown, thinking he can take over the firm of his parents’ lawyers, under the pretext that he played one on the small screen. Canceled after one season, this sitcom was nevertheless favorably received by critics.

Rob Lowe also turned to animation, lending his voice to Simba in The Lion Guard (2015-2016), and Moonbeam City (2015). An experience that he repeated a year later, with Monsters Cars (Monsters Trucks) .

In 2016, he joined the medical team of the second season of Code Black , which aims to be a successor to Emergency . His projects finally took him back to the cinema path with Super Troopers 2 , a sequel to the first part dating from 2001. Rob Lowe even revived his image of a young seducer from the beginning of his career, playing a gigolo in How to be a Latin lover (2017).

Lucie Peronne