Jane Lowe
{{Short description|English actress (born 1943)}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|6|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wigan, Lancashire, England
| occupation = Actress
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| years_active = 1967–present
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Jane Lowe (born 5 June 1943) is an English actress. She is best known for portraying the roles of Aunt Blodwen in Lizzie Dripping (1973–1975), Mam in the BBC children's programme Jonny Briggs (1985–1987) and Monica Lindsey in the ITV drama Bad Girls (1999–2001). Throughout her career on stage and screen that has spanned over five decades, she has appeared in Coronation Street, The Bill and Doctors on numerous occasions as various characters and co-starred in the horror film The Creeping (2022).
Life and career
Lowe was born on 5 June 1943 in Wigan, Lancashire.{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe – TV Guide |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jane-lowe/credits/3000461493/ |website=TV Guide |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814232048/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jane-lowe/credits/3000461493/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe – David Daly Associates |url=http://daviddaly.co.uk/wp/project/lowe-jane/ |website=David Daly Associates |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517002154/http://daviddaly.co.uk/wp/project/lowe-jane/ |url-status=live }} She began her acting career in 1967, appearing in six episodes of the ITV soap opera Crossroads as Mrs. Coburn, before making her stage debut the same year appearing in productions of The Heir and Bread and Butter at the Castle Theatre in Farnham.{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe – Theatricalia |url=https://theatricalia.com/person/6d7/jane-lowe |website=Theatricalia |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233227/https://theatricalia.com/person/6d7/jane-lowe |url-status=live }} Over the next five years, she had minor roles in drama series such as Mr. Rose, Crime Buster, Fraud Squad and Who-Dun-It. She also appeared in episodes of ITV Playhouse and ITV Sunday Night Theatre, as well as an episode of Coronation Street.{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe filmography |url=https://digiguide.tv/celebrity/Jane+Lowe/1810/ |work=Digiguide.tv |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233221/https://digiguide.tv/celebrity/Jane+Lowe/1810/ |url-status=live }} In 1972, Lowe portrayed Aunt Blodwen in an episode of Jackanory Playhouse which spawned into a spin-off series Lizzie Dripping the following year, and became Lowe's first regular acting job, portraying the character between 1973 and 1975.
Lowe maintained her acting career throughout the next decade, portraying various guest roles in several television shows before appearing in Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House as Mrs Cunliffe in 1982, and subsequently joining the cast of the 1984 BBC comedy drama Cockles as Mabel Gutteridge.{{cite web |title=Cockles – BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/545e6750c10b47aeb3691c98d3844b7a |work=BBC |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233606/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/545e6750c10b47aeb3691c98d3844b7a |url-status=live }} In 1985, Lowe began portraying Mam in the BBC children's television series Jonny Briggs, starring in both series before the show's cancellation in 1987.{{cite web |title=Jonny Briggs – BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b3b41e67b48b475db7ae832c4032a741 |work=BBC |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=20 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020125801/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b3b41e67b48b475db7ae832c4032a741 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Here's what the stars of legendary children's TV show Jonny Briggs look like today |url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/heres-what-stars-legendary-childrens-19260896?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target |website=Examiner Live |access-date=13 August 2023 |date=15 November 2020 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233727/https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/heres-what-stars-legendary-childrens-19260896?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target |url-status=live }} In 1990, Lowe appeared in Perfect Scoundrels as Mrs. Frobisher and portrayed Toni Spuhler in an episode of the BBC2 anthology series Performance in 1992.{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe at British Comedy Guide |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/jane_lowe/ |work=British Comedy Guide |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233728/https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/jane_lowe/ |url-status=live }} In 1993, she made guest appearance in series' such as Gallowglass, May to December and Lovejoy.{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe at Plex.tv |url=https://watch.plex.tv/person/jane-lowe-2 |website=Plex.tv |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=27 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827025156/https://watch.plex.tv/person/jane-lowe-2 |url-status=live }} She also appeared in Cracker (1995) and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996). Lowe also appeared in various stage productions including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1992), The Card (1994) and My Mother Said I Never Should (1997).{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe – Our Heritage – Open Air Theatre |url=https://openairtheatreheritage.com/actors/jane-lowe/XmjM4xAAACMA-p0q |website=Regent's Park Open Air Theatre |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814233728/https://openairtheatreheritage.com/actors/jane-lowe/XmjM4xAAACMA-p0q |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe – Spotlight CV |url=https://www.spotlight.com/3599-0193-0047 |work=Spotlight |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=1 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701233927/https://www.spotlight.com/3599-0193-0047 |url-status=live }}
In 1999, Lowe joined the cast of the ITV drama Bad Girls as Monica Lindsey, a middle-aged, middle-class woman who had been sentenced to five years imprisonment for handling stolen money.{{cite web |title=Bad Girls – Full cast & crew |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/bad-girls/cast/1000286707/ |work=TV Guide |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=16 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516222905/https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/bad-girls/cast/1000286707/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Jane Lowe at Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jane_lowe |work=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=3 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203143450/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jane_lowe |url-status=live }} The character was released on appeal in the final episode of the first series, however Lowe briefly returned as Monica during the third series, in which she is seen having opened a halfway house for other prisoners.{{cite web |title=Monica Lindsey – Bad Girls – TV Maze |url=https://www.tvmaze.com/characters/93068/bad-girls-monica-lindsey |work=TV Maze |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814234559/https://www.tvmaze.com/characters/93068/bad-girls-monica-lindsey |url-status=live }}
Lowe has since made regular appearances in television soap operas. She has appeared in the BBC medical soap opera Doctors on seven occasions in various roles, as well as appearing in The Bill five times and Coronation Street four times.{{cite web |title=Doctors, O True Apothecary |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hk18k |website=BBC |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=8 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208135357/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hk18k |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Doctors, A Plague on Both Your Houses |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hk1fn |website=BBC |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=8 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208144416/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hk1fn |url-status=live }} She also appeared in an episode of the BBC sitcom Not Going Out in 2013.{{cite web |title=Not Going Out, The House, BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nhmwb |website=BBC |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206051242/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nhmwb |url-status=live }} In 2022, Lowe co-starred in the horror film The Creeping.{{cite web |title=’The Creeping’ review: Dir. Jamie Hooper [FrightFest] |url=https://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2022/08/28/the-creeping-review-frightfest/ |website=The Hollywood News |access-date=13 August 2023 |archive-date=27 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827234904/https://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2022/08/28/the-creeping-review-frightfest/ |url-status=live }} For her portrayal of Lucy Blakeley, she won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the Houston Horror Film Festival.{{cite web |title=The Creeping is a solid entry into the cinema of demonic possession |url=https://www.moviejawn.com/home/2023/3/3/the-creeping-is-a-solid-entry-into-the-cinema-of-demonic-possession?format=amp |work=MovieJawn |access-date=13 August 2023 |date=3 March 2023 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814234610/https://www.moviejawn.com/home/2023/3/3/the-creeping-is-a-solid-entry-into-the-cinema-of-demonic-possession?format=amp |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=We’re thrilled to announce the wonderful Jane Lowe won BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for her role as Lucy Blakeley at @FilmFestHouston. Congratulations Jane, much deserved for a fantastic performance. |url=https://x.com/thecreepingfilm/status/1551258856428392450?s=46&t=CEHBFLddda0eEmgDGvh-8A |work=X |access-date=13 August 2023 |date=24 July 2022 |archive-date=14 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814234607/https://twitter.com/thecreepingfilm/status/1551258856428392450?s=46&t=CEHBFLddda0eEmgDGvh-8A |url-status=live }}
Filmography
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
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1967
| Mrs. Coburn | 6 episodes |
1968
| Mr. Rose | First woman | Episode: "The Unlucky Dip" |
1968
| {{N/A|Unknown}} | Episode: "Howzat" |
1969
| Fraud Squad | Rose | Episode: "Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" |
1969
| Who-Dun-It | Phillipa Best | Episode: "Crime at the Panto" |
1969
| Bucky Branch | Episode: "Ancient and Modern" |
1971
| Barbara Bromley | 3 episodes |
1972
| Mrs. Boyle | Episode: "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" |
1972
| Aunt Blodwen | Episode: "Lizzie Dripping and the Orphans" |
1973–1975
| Aunt Blodwen | Main role |
1975
| Norma | Episode: "Wednesday Love" |
1975
| Daft as a Brush | Factory worker's wife | Television film |
1975
| Angels | Beryl | Episode: "Off Duty" |
1975
| Phyllis | Episode: "Casualties: August 1975" |
1976
| Westway | Paula Harvey | Main role |
1976
| Coronation Street | Doreen Thornley | 1 episode |
1977
| Play for Today | Public relations girl | Episode: "Spend Spend Spend" |
1977
| Jubilee | Hilde | Episode: "Wind of Change" |
1977
| Rooms | Aunt Rose | Recurring role |
1978
| Z-Cars | Mrs. Thomas | Episode: "Quilley on the Spot" |
1978
| Disraeli | Charlotte de Rothschild | Episode: "The Great Game 1858–1872" |
1979
| Mary | Episode: "The Philistines Of Sussex/Situation Vacant" |
1979
| Sarah Fine | 3 episodes |
1979
| The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris | Mrs. Harris | 5 episodes |
1979
| Leave It to Charlie | Dora Rickenbacker | Episode: "Ole Brown Eyes" |
1969
| ITV Playhouse | Joanna | Episode: "Casting the Runes" |
1980
| Ladykillers | Edna Baker | Episode: "Lucky, Lucky Thirteen!" |
1980
| ITV Playhouse | Janice | Episode: "Hands" |
1980
| Life for Christine | Headmistress | Television film |
1982
| Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House | Mrs. Cunliffe | Main role, 7 episodes |
1984
| Cockles | Mabel Gutteridge | Main role |
1985
| Mrs. Younger | Episode: "Pride of Place" |
1985
| Maureen | 1 episode |
1985
| Jean | 3 episodes |
1985–1987
| Mam | Main role |
1986
| The Bill | Mrs. Simpson | Episode: "Ringer" |
1986
| Miriam Raintree | 2 episodes |
1989
| The Bill | Debbie's mother | Episode: "Street Games and Board Games" |
1989
| Boon | Amelia Woods | Episode: "All in a Day's Pork" |
1990
| Mrs. Frobisher | Episode: "The Day of Jubilo" |
1992
| Toni Spuhler | Episode: "Tales from Hollywood" |
1993
| Iris | 1 episode |
1993
| Snooty customer | Episode: "Baby Love" |
1993
| Lovejoy | Camilla | Episode: "A Going Concern" |
1995
| Casualty | Alice Munton | Episode: "When All Else Fails" |
1995
| Cracker | Landlady | Episode: "True Romance: Part 1" |
1996
| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Alice Baynes | Episode: "Safe as Houses" |
1996
| The Bill | Jean Booth | Episode: "Minding" |
1997
| Alma Watling | 1 episode |
1997
| Brenda | 1 episode |
1998
| The Bill | Carol Houghton | Episode: "The Parent Trap" |
1998
| Jayne Swift | Episode: "Once in a Lifetime" |
1999
| Millicent Lake | 1 episode |
1999
| Four Fathers | Mrs. Pagel | 1 episode |
1999–2001
| Monica Lindsey | Main role |
2000
| Mrs. Edna Bostwick | Episode: "Child's Play" |
2001
| Lies... In Love | Nancy's mother | Film |
2001
| Lady Wharton | 3 episodes |
2001
| Doctors | Maeve Ripley | Episode: "Sleeping Beauty" |
2002
| Landlady | Television film |
2002
| Mary Hay | Episode: "Nobody's Fool" |
2003
| Enid Parkin | Episode: "Beyond Guilt: Part 1" |
2004
| Doctors | Barbara Martin | Episode: "Cuckoo in the Nest" |
2005
| Joyce Harris | Episode: "Thinking Outside the Box" |
2005–2007
| Mary Osbourne | 2 episodes |
2005
| Spooks | Fiona's mother | Episode: "The Russian" |
2006
| Mrs Higham | Television film |
2007
| Doctors | Cecily Langer | Episode: "Up, Up and Away" |
2008
| Holby City | Kate Pervis | 2 episodes |
2008
| Mrs. Smythe | Episode: "Against All Odds" |
2009
| Hustle | Miriam | Episode: "Politics" |
2009
| Doctors | Elsa Scott | 3 episodes |
2010
| The Bill | Margaret Cooper | Episode: "Time Bomb" |
2010
| Maureen | Episode: "Losing My Religion" |
2011
| 7 Lives | Mary's mum | Film |
2011
| Doctors | Mrs. Zelda Smith | Episode: "Night Thoughts" |
2013
| Doctors | Evelyn Bowe | Episode: "Sweet Sixteen" |
2013
| Casualty | Georgina Melbury | Episode: "What You Believe" |
2013
| Carol | Episode: "The House" |
2015
| Mrs. Biggs | 1 episode |
2015
| Doctors | Eileen Grant | Episode: "Injecting a Little Spice" |
2017
| Doctors | Alice Lawson | Episode: "Magpie" |
2017
| Loose Ends | Biddy | Short film |
2018
| Casualty | Valerie Clerk | Episode: "Rage in Resus" |
2018
| Coronation Street | Bertha Plumtree | 1 episode |
2020
| Coronation Street | Margaret Newsome | 3 episodes |
2022
| Lucy Blakeley | Film |
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Stage
class="wikitable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! Venue |
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1967
| The Heir | Margherita |
1967
| Bread and Butter | Miriam (butter) | Castle Theatre, Farnham |
1970
| Mrs Prentice |
1970
| Dead Silence | Mrs Masters | Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch |
rowspan="2"| 1970
| rowspan="2"| Someone Waiting | rowspan="2"| Vera Nedlow |
Palace Theatre, Manchester |
1971
| Mrs Banks |
1971
| Marian Halcombe | Castle Theatre, Farnham |
1974
| Candida | Candida Morell |
1979
| Saturday Sunday Monday | {{N/A|Unknown}} |
1984
| Sostrata |
1985
| Lady Alice More |
1985
| Me Mam Sez | Mam | Nottingham Playhouse |
1987
| Mrs Spoker | Redgrave Theatre, Farnham |
1988–1989
| Lady Bountiful | {{N/A|Unknown}} |
1989
| Mrs Spoker | Redgrave Theatre, Farnham |
1990
| Rebecca | {{N/A|Unknown}} |
1990
| Phoebe Rice | Redgrave Theatre, Farnham |
1991
| M'Lynn |
1991
| Judith Bliss | New Wolsey Theatre |
1992
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | New Wolsey Theatre |
1992
| Medea | Woman of Corinth |
1993
| The Belle of Belfast City | Vi |
1994
| The Card | Mrs Machin |
rowspan="2"| 1993–1994
| rowspan="2"| Medea | rowspan="2"| Woman of Corinth | Liverpool Playhouse |
Wyndham's Theatre |
1996
| {{N/A|Unknown}} |
1996
| The Verge | Adelaide | Orange Tree Theatre |
1997
| My Mother Said I Never Should | Margaret |
2000
| Venecia | Rita |
2002
| Long Time No See | Freda |
2003
| Mom |
rowspan="2"| 2006
| rowspan="2"| Hedda Gabler | rowspan="2"| Aunt Juli |
Liverpool Playhouse |
2011
| Notes to Future Self | Daphne |
2011
| Buried Child | Halie |
2012
| Calcutta Kosher | Mozelle |
2013
| The Summer House | Tatiana |
2013
| As Is | Hospice worker |
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References
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External links
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