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| Birth Name(s) : Robert Hepler Lowe |
Date of Birth: March 17, 1964 |
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Married
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Partner:
Sheryl Berkoff |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Rob Lowe Biography
| Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, but moved to Dayton, Ohio, as a small child. Began modelling as a young boy and broke into acting in his teens. Spent the 80s as a member of the "Brat Pack", the group of young, powerful, and reckless actors and actresses which also included Emilio Estevez Charlie Sheen and Judd Nelson among others. In 1988, Lowe was involved in a scandal centering around a sexually explicit videotape which involved a minor, for which he did 20 hours of community service in Dayton. He subsequently sought help for his problems with drugs and alcohol and has reemerged in the 90s as a clean and sober husband and father. |
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Additional Rob Lowe Biography
Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia to Charles Lowe, a lawyer, and Barbara Hepler, a teacher; the two divorced when Lowe was young and have since re-married. He has a brother, actor Chad Lowe, and two step-siblings. Lowe was baptized into the Episcopalian church, though his maternal grandparents were Methodists. He was raised in a "traditional midwestern setting" in Dayton, Ohio and on the Westside of Los Angeles, attending Santa Monica High School, where one of his classmates was fellow Brat-Packer Emilio Estevez. He was voted "most spirited" in high school.
Lowe's early roles included such hit films as The Outsiders (where he played Sodapop), St. Elmo's Fire, and About Last Night. Lowe was one of the most popular members of the Brat Pack, partially because of his good looks, which made him a popular actor with many.
While he reluctantly accepted his demotion, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the network's meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character. Eventually, Lowe left the series, not long before Sorkin and director/executive producer Thomas Schlamme unceremoniously quit over a dispute with NBC - a move which saw the show's style change greatly, resulting in decreased ratings and mostly negative reactions from critics and fans. During the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes.
After leaving the show, Lowe was star and executive producer of a failed NBC drama, The Lyon's Den (2003). In 2004, he tried again in a series entitled Dr. Vegas, but it also was quickly cancelled. In 2005, he starred as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in a London West End production of Sorkin's play A Few Good Men, the first time the two had worked together since The West Wing. Although Lowe had expressed unhappiness about his decreased role on that show at the time of his departure, he has now repeatedly said that any animosity between them is over and that he was pleased to be working once more with Sorkin, whose talents as a writer Lowe highly regards. Lowe passed on the role of Dr. Derek Shepard of Grey's Anatomy, which eventually went to Patrick Dempsey.
Despite his two cancelled TV series and flops like View From the Top and the made for tv movie Perfect Strangers during his post-West Wing run, Lowe found success in the TV miniseries genre. 2004 marked his return to this genre since 1994's The Stand which was based on Stephen King's book of the same name. In 2004, Lowe starred in the TNT remake of the Stephen King miniseries 'Salem's Lot which was the highest rated cable program of that summer and the highest ratings TNT original programming had at the time. In 2005, Lowe starred in the miniseries Summer Girls on the Lifetime network which was based on the Lunann Rice novel of the same name. The series premiere received the highest ratings for a movie premiere in Lifetime history. In that same year, Lowe filmed his critically acclaimed role as super movie agent in the 2006 independent film Thank You for Smoking. In 2006, he filmed The Perfect Day for TNT, in which he took a pay cut to film in New Orleans in order to help the hurricane ravaged area. That same year, Lowe filmed Stir of Echoes: The Dead Speak, the "sequel" to the 1998 Kevin Bacon thriller Stir of Echoes.
Further complicating the issue was another part of the same tape that leaked at the time, showed Lowe, a young American model called "Jennifer", and "Justin Morris" having a menage-a-trois in a hotel room in Paris. This part of the original tape was made commercially available and was sold as one of the first commercially available "celebrity sex tapes", lending a black eye towards Rob Lowe's public image.
Lowe's career was damaged by the scandal, and he later entered a rehabilitation clinic for alcohol and sex addiction. Eventually, his career rebounded and Lowe mocked his own behavior during two post-scandal appearances as host of Saturday Night Live.
Lowe makes his home with his wife Sheryl Berkoff and two children, Edward Matthew Lowe (b. 1993) and John Owen Lowe (b. 1995), in Montecito, California.
Lowe is a founder of the Homeowner's Defense Fund, a Santa Barbara County non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to local control of land use planning and transparency in government. The average price of tract homes in Santa Barbara in early 2006 is $1,100,000, which has motivated some to propose denser housing on existing lots. At the same time Lowe opposes new housing for others, he has sought to build a 14,260 square-foot mansion for himself on an empty lot in Montecito, California. Lowe's protest over the appearance of the address of the empty lot in the Santa Barbara News-Press precipitated a mass resignation of senior employees at that newspaper on July 6, 2006, and was a proximate cause of the Santa Barbara News-Press controversy. Lowe is a registered Democrat. |
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| When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it. |
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