Rob Lowe Biography
Rob Lowe a.k.a Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor, producer, and director. He hosts the Fox competition series, Mental Samurai, where he also serves as a producer. Lowe is the recipient of two Screen Actors Guild Awards and has a brother, Chad Lowe, who is also an actor and director.
Lowe has been nominated for six Golden Globes Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. He made his acting debut at the age of 15 with ABC’s short-lived sitcom A New Kind of Family.
Following numerous television roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with roles in films like The Outsiders, and Square Dance. The success of these films established him as a Hollywood star.
Rob Lowe’s public image and film career declined following a 1988 sex tape scandal. By the turn of the millennium, his career saw a resurgence when he ventured back into television, making his breakthrough as Sam Seaborn on the NBC political drama The West Wing (1999–2003).
The West Wing saw him receive nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Some of his other television roles include Code Black, and the A&E reality series The Lowe Files, in which he appears with his two sons, Edward Matthew Lowe and John Owen Lowe.
In 2018, he made his directorial debut with the television film The Bad Seed, a remake of the 1956 film of the same name. Rob Lowe attended Oakwood Junior High School, before transferring to Santa Monica High School, where he met Charlie Sheen.
In his autobiography Stories (I Only Tell My Friends), he wrote regarding Sheen, “We were both nerds, he wanted to be a baseball player.
Rob Lowe Age
He was born on March 17th, 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Rob Lowe is now 55 years old.
Rob Lowe Wife
Robert Lowe married Sheryl Berkoff in 1991 who is a makeup artist and known for her work on Renegades, Eve of Destruction and Glengarry Glen Ross. They met twice, once on a blind date in 1983, and again on the set of Lowe’s movie, Bad Influence. The couple shares two sons: Edward Matthew Lowe and John Owen Lowe.
Rob Lowe Sons
The actor and his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, share two children who are his sons Edward Matthew Lowe (b. 1993) and John Owen Lowe (b. 1995).
Rob Lowe appeared with his two sons in the A&E reality series The Lowe Files which premiered in August 2017. On the show, Lowe and his boys explore common myths and mysteries associated with road trips.
For some time now, Rob Lowe’s sons Matthew and John have been making fun of their dad’s Instagram pictures. The Emmy award-winning actor has said how special his sons are to him numerous times. “One of the great gifts of my life has been having my boys, Matthew and John Owen, and through them, exploring the mysterious, complicated, and charged bond between fathers and sons,” Rob Lowe once wrote.
“As my wife, Sheryl, and I raised them, I have discovered the depth of our relationship and the love and loss that flowed between my father and me.” Moreover, Matthew graduated from Duke University in 2016 while John got a degree from Stanford University in 2018.
Family
Robert Lowe is the son of Barbara Lynn, a schoolteacher, and native of Connecticut and Charles Davis Lowe a trial lawyer. His parents divorced when Rob was 4 years old. Together with his younger brother, Chad Lowe, he was raised by their mother. Like his brother, Chad lowe is also an actor and producer.
As an actor, Chad Lowe won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1993 for his supporting role as an AIDS victim in the drama series Life Goes On.
He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. On the show (Who Do You Think You Are), Lowe found out that one of his ancestors, Christopher East, was a Hessian soldier.
Rob Lowe’s ancestor was fighting under the command of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall and was captured at the American victory at Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26, 1776. As an American POW, his ancestor was given a choice and took the option to stay in the United States.
Rob Lowe Net Worth
Robert Lowe’s acting career spans over 3 decades and is estimated to be worth $60 million dollars. In 2015, the actor launched a line of skincare products for men and in 2016 he launched a perfume named “18 Amber Wood”.
Rob Lowe Young
Lowe made his acting debut at the age of 15 with ABC’s short-lived sitcom A New Kind of Family (1979–1980). Following numerous television roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with roles in films like The Outsiders, Class, and The Hotel New Hampshire.
Other roles were in films like Oxford Blues, St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night, and Square Dance. The success of these films established him as a Hollywood star. To check out his Rob Lowe young photos, simply see here.
Is Rob Lowe Gay?
Rob Lowe has never admitted to being gay and there has been no reason to question his sexuality. More so, seeing that he has been married to a woman for over 2 decades, it is safe to assume that he is not. However, in his 2014 memoir Love Life he revealed that he had actually kissed a man before.
According to him, while filming a scene for season 4 of the Showtime comedy Californication, his character kissed Evan Handler’s character. The actor revealed that the kiss wasn’t in the script as neither of the 2 characters was gay, however, he only did it for the sake of comedy.
Rob Lowe Height
Lowe now maintains a healthy sober lifestyle and takes his exercise very seriously. He stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches tall (180 cm). As of his weight, the actor is 77 Kg or 156.5 lbs, putting on shoe size number 11.
Rob Lowe Movies
» The Outsiders
» St. Elmo’s Fire
» Youngblood
» Wayne’s World
» Tommy Boy
» About Last Night…
» Behind the Candelabra
» If the Shoe Fits
» The Bad Seed
» How to Be a Latin Lover
» Sex Tape
» Killing Kennedy
» Oxford Blues
» Super Troopers
» Bad Influence
» Eat St. Monster Trucks
» Class
» Masquerade
» The Hotel New Hampshire
» Austin Powers in Goldmember
» Illegally Yours
» Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
» The Invention of Lying
» The Christmas Shoes
» Mune: Guardian of the Moon
» Thank You for Smoking
» Drew Peterson: Untouchable
» Contact
» Knife Fight
» View from the Top
» Square Dance
» Too Late to Say Goodbye
» The Finest Hour
» Frank and Jesse
» Beautiful and Twisted
» Jane Doe
» Stir of Echoes 2
» I Melt with You
» Perfect Strangers
» The Christmas Blessing
» The Specials
» Prosecuting Casey Anthony
» The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
» Breakaway: Speedy Singhs
» Pocket Listing
» Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
» The Dark Backward
» Crazy Six
» Midnight Man
» Christmas in the Wild
» Desert’s Edge
Rob Lowe The Outsider
The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25, 1983.
Rob Lowe cast as Sodapop Curtis. In the mid-1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens. They include Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darrel, as well as Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, Two-Bit Matthews, and Steve Randle.
Their rivalry is with the Socs, a gang of wealthier kids from the other side of town. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon, and Randy Anderson confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and Two-Bit, who are talking to the Socs’ girlfriends, Cherry and Marcia, at a drive-in theater.
The girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy, and three other Socs. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain attempting to drown him, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob to death. The movie is available on the internet for viewing.
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Rob Lowe Sex Tape Scandal
In 1988, Rob Lowe was involved in a sex scandal over a videotape of him having sex with a 16-year-old girl he met in a nightclub. They were videotaped the night before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
As the age of consent in Georgia was 14 at the time (until 1995 when it was raised to 16), both were of legal age to engage in sexual activity, although 18 was the legal age to be involved in such a recording. At the time, Lowe was campaigning for Michael Dukakis.
Another part of the same tape was leaked at the time, showing Rob Lowe and his friend Justin Moritt both having vaginal and oral sex with a young American model named Jennifer, who was never identified, in a hotel room in Paris.
This part of the original tape was sold as one of the first commercially available celebrity sex tapes, damaging Lowe’s public image. Eventually, his career rebounded, and Lowe mocked his own behavior during two post-scandal appearances as host of Saturday Night Live.
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