Andrea Lowe

1975-05-01 · Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Andrea Lowe (born 1 May 1975) is an English actress. She started her theatre career at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in the play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. In 1993 she had her first film role, alongside Samantha Morton, in the musical comedy drama called The Token King, set in a high school in Nottingham. Among her extensive work since then, Lowe guest starred in two episodes of the second season of The Tudors in which she played Lady Eleanor Luke, a fictional noblewoman who was briefly the mistress of Henry VIII, played Vicky in the 2009 TV film, The Unloved, and she played the role of Annie Cabbot in the British television network ITV series DCI Banks (2011–2016), having also played in its pilot, DCI Banks: Aftermath (2010). She starred in Alan Ayckbourn's play How the Other Half Loves alongside Jenny Seagrove and Jason Merrells at the Duke of York's Theatre, the West End theatre, on St Martin's Lane, London in 2016.