Alice Lowe

Known for ActingBorn 1977-04-03 (age 49)Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK

An English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is known for her roles in the Garth Marenghi series and as the lead and co-writer of the 2012 film Sightseers. She wrote, directed and starred in the 2016 black comedy Prevenge, whilst pregnant herself. Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge, where she studied classics. At university she became involved in theatre and comedy. Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machine co-devising and performed along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell. Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King, who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. She was cast in Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. In 2001, she won an award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her television credits include Channel 4's spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film, David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box, and a recurring role in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. She was part of the all-female comedy show Beehive along with Sarah Kendall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson which was aired on E4, and was a regular cast member of the CBBC show Horrible Histories during the second, third and fifth seasons. Her BBC Three pilot "LifeSpam: My Child Is French" was broadcast in 2009, and she co-wrote and starred in Channel 4's Orcadia. In February 2010, she appeared in and script-edited the pilot for a "sort-of-sketch-show" called Missing Scene. She has also guest starred as Monkey in "The Priest and the Beast" episode of The Mighty Boosh, as Patricia in the "Fifty-Fifty" episode of The IT Crowd, a solicitor in the "Travel Writer" episode of Black Books, Madonna in an episode of Channel 4's Star Stories, and episodes of Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, Beautiful People and This is Jinsy. She appeared in the music video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley, directed by Edgar Wright.Read more

Movies & web series

Night Feed

Dirty Business

Innocence

Stiffy

Sherlock

Inside No. 9

The IT Crowd

Skins

Verisimilitude

Black Books

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Horrible Histories

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Lockwood & Co.

The Mighty Boosh

Hot Fuzz

Beehive

Comedy Lab

Snuff Box

Flowers

My Life in Film

Man to Man with Dean Learner

Paddington

Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive

Partygate

Come Fly with Me

Angelo's

Locke

The World's End

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Crackanory

Beautiful People

Burn Burn Burn

This Is Jinsy

Sometimes Always Never

Hang Ups

Black Mountain Poets

Greatest Days

Pieces

Sightseers

Eternal Beauty

Adult Life Skills

Get Duked!

Chubby Funny

Saipan

Days of the Bagnold Summer

Kill List

Salt