Rob Lowe

Birthplace: Charlottesville, Virginia
Birthday: March 17, 1964

Thin and wiry with delicate, somewhat androgynous features, Rob Lowe was inspired to become an actor after seeing a Dayton, Ohio production of "Oliver!" when he was ten years old. After his parents' divorce, he and younger brother Chad moved to L.A. with their mother. Lowe found work in TV commercials before landing the plum role of Eileen Brennan's son in the short-lived ABC sitcom "A New Kind of Family" (1979). After a spell of failed pilots and "Afterschool Specials", the young actor landed his first scr…more

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2006
Cast in a recurring role on ABC s Brothers & Sisters as a Republican senator and romantic interest for Calista Flockhart s Kitty
2006
Co-starred with Aaron Eckhart in Jason Reitman’s satirical comedy Thank You for Smoking
2006
Will reprise his role as Sam Seaborn, the senior political official for the final episodes of NBC s White House drama The West Wing
2005
Reunited with Aaron Sorkin to star in the London revival of Sorkin s A Few Good Men
2004
Starred in the CBS drama Dr. Vegas playing a doctor at a Las Vegas casino