Alice Lowe

Alice Lowe
Lowe in 2012
Born	Alice Eva Lowe (1977-04-03) 3 April 1977 Coventry, West Midlands, England
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Occupations	Comedian actress writer director
Children	2

Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977) is an English actress, writer, director, and comedian. She has appeared as Dr. Haynes in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. She wrote, directed, and starred in the 2016 film Prevenge and starred in and co-wrote the 2012 film Sightseers. She also starred in the educational children's television series Horrible Histories.

Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England.¹ She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge, where she studied classics.²³ At university she became involved in theatre and comedy.³

Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machines⁴ co-devising and performing along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell.⁵

Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King,⁶ who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.⁶ She was cast in Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight⁶ alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000.⁷ In 2001, she won an award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead,⁶ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.³

Her television credits include Channel 4's spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,⁶ Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film, David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box,⁶ and a recurring role in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive.⁶ She was part of the all-female comedy show Beehive⁶ 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 Histories⁶ during the second, third and fifth seasons. Her BBC Three pilot "LifeSpam: My Child Is French" was broadcast in 2009,⁷ 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,⁶ a solicitor in the "Travel Writer" episode of Black Books, Madonna in an episode of Channel 4's Star Stories,⁶ and episodes of Little Britain,⁶ Come Fly with Me,⁶ Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, Beautiful People and This is Jinsy.⁶ She appeared in the music video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley, directed by Edgar Wright.⁶

Lowe co-wrote and starred in the short film Stiffy, directed by Jacqueline Wright,⁶ which premiered at Cannes in 2005 as part of the Kodak Straight 8 competition. Her self-penned short film Sticks and Balls was screened at Cannes in 2007.⁶ In 2010 together with Wright she founded the production company Jackal Films,⁶ making a short film each month of that year.⁸

Lowe appeared in the action comedy film Hot Fuzz,⁷ and took a lead role in the 2012 film Sightseers,⁶ the third production from director Ben Wheatley. Sightseers was written by Lowe with Steve Oram, with additional material by Amy Jump.⁹ Lowe had a role in the Edgar Wright-directed film The World's End.¹⁰

On BBC Radio 4, she has written three series of Alice's Wunderland a dark, surreal comedy.¹¹

In 2016, she made her directorial debut on the critically acclaimed Prevenge, which she directed while pregnant.^{12 13} In 2018, Lowe appeared as Dr Haynes in Netflix's first adult-targeted interactive film, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.¹⁴

In February 2021, Lowe's film Timestalker was announced. The film will "chronicle one woman's unrequited love across several centuries [...] from 1680s Western Scotland to the apocalyptic 22nd Century." Lowe stated that "[t]his film is my homage to the most romantic epics. Lavish, lush and overflowing with emotion."¹⁵ Filming began in late 2022 and it was released October 2024.¹⁶

Lowe was pregnant while filming Prevenge and later gave birth to her daughter Della with partner Paul Synnott.¹⁷