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Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe

Actor · b. 1968 · Brent, Middlesex, England, UK

Alex Lowe (born 15 January 1968) is an English actor, comedian and voice artist. He is the creator and performer of the characters Barry from Watford on Steve Wright's BBC Radio 2 show and Iain Lee's shows, and the character Clinton Baptiste, originally seen in Phoenix Nights, as whom he has since toured. Lowe made his TV debut in 1981 in Thames Television's Theatre Box. On stage, he played Wharton in "Another Country" at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. In 1983 he played Young Edmond Bertram in BBC 1's Mansfield Park. His career has included diverse roles from serious drama to character comedy. He has worked as both a writer and actor in many different areas of media. In 1990, Lowe appeared in The Hypochondriac at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won a First. In 1991, having trained at The Studio School in North London and Leicester School of Performing Arts, he played PC Corman in Minder alongside George Cole. Lowe has appeared in a variety of different television programmes, including, Three Men in A Boat, The Rise and Fall of Rome, The Fast Show, Fun at the Funeral Parlour, The Big Impression Christmas Special, and Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He appeared in four episodes of Simon Day's comedy series Grass as precocious child star Crispin Winterville's father Roland. He played Clinton Baptiste in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Sparky in That Peter Kay Thing. He starred with Lee on The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel Four in the late 1990s, usually appearing as a reporter. In 2007, he wrote and performed for Ronni Ancona and Co. for BBC One and performed in The Peter Serafinowicz Show on BBC 2. In the cinema, Lowe played Paul in Peter's Friends, The Messenger in Much Ado About Nothing and Simon Merriel in Haunted. On radio, Lowe has appeared on Absolute Power, 15 Minute Musical, Not Today, Thank You, The Laxian Key and The Scarifyers; he plays Brian in Clare in the Community for BBC Radio 4. Lowe has also appeared twice on Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 with Iain Lee, Big Brother's Big Mouth and Sam Delaney's Stupid Telly (as Barry from Watford). From 2001 to 2003 he hosted Download This for XFM London on Sunday mornings from 10 am to midday.

Series23

  • TV7.5

    Midsomer Murders

    1997 · 375 votes

  • TV6.2

    Casualty

    1986 · 88 votes

  • TV7.1

    Minder

    1979 · 30 votes

  • TV6.1

    Sam Tân

    Fireman Sam

    1987 · 41 votes

  • TV7.6

    Jonathan Creek

    1997 · 78 votes

  • TV8.0

    Peep Show

    2003 · 456 votes

  • TV8.3

    Brassic

    2019 · 257 votes

  • TV8.1

    The Thick of It

    2005 · 223 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.9

    Utopia

    2013 · 716 votes

  • TV7.2

    Lovesick

    2014 · 180 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Fast Show

    1994 · 52 votes

  • TV7.9

    Spaced

    1999 · 519 votes

  • TV7.6
  • TV7.5

    Saxondale

    2006 · 32 votes

  • TV8.0

    Look Around You

    2002 · 36 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Job Lot

    2013 · 34 votes

  • TV8.0

    If...

    2004 · 1 votes

  • TV6.7

    Shardlake

    2024 · 55 votes

  • TV7.1

    Murder, They Hope

    2021 · 11 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Casual Vacancy

    2015 · 32 votes

  • TV6.1

    Hitmen

    2020 · 17 votes

  • TV7.4

Movies18

  • Movie6.0

    Grimsby

    2016 · 2.6K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Tulip Fever

    2017 · 747 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Much Ado About Nothing

    1993 · 841 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    1994 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.7

    My Week with Marilyn

    2011 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.1

    Haunted

    1995 · 184 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Discovery of Heaven

    2001 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Peter's Friends

    1992 · 225 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie6.1

    Benjamin

    2019 · 91 votes

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie4.1

    Dutch Girls

    1985 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.2

    U Be Dead

    2009 · 3 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie1.0

    Suzie

    2023 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Harringham Harker

    2003 · 1 votes