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Filmography

Actor Credits
Austin Power`s the Spy Who Shagged Me [1999]
Wayne`s World [1993]
About Last Night [1986]
The Outsiders [1981]
TV Shows/Series
Brothers & Sisters (Senator Robert McCallister) [2006 - 2008] (# of episodes: 30)
 

Rob Lowe Biography
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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.
  • [on his short-lived sitcom, "A New Kind of Family" (1979)] It was notable only for how bad it was.
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  • Has the dubious distinction of having left a successful TV series ("The West Wing" (1999)), to having two failed TV series within a year ("The Lyon`s Den" (2003), "Dr. Vegas" (2004)), both of which were canceled before running their full season.
  • One of the select few to be nominated for and subsequently "win" a Razzie Award and then not get another nomination again. Lowe "won" the 1986 Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for his performance in St. Elmo`s Fire (1985).
  • Rob has a younger brother, Justin, from his father`s second marriage.
  • Was considered for the role of Dr. Derek Shepard on "Grey`s Anatomy" (2005).
  • Was one of the nine original members of the 1980s "brat pack", along with Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Andrew McCarthy.
  • Brother of actor Chad Lowe
  • Father of Edward Matthew Lowe (b. 1993) and John Owen Lowe (b. 1995)
  • Former brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank.
  • He appeared in John Parr`s "St. Elmo`s Fire (Man In Motion)" music video.
  • Helped in the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California. (2003)
  • Impersonated Robert Wagner`s voice for the young Number Two in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).
  • Is deaf in his right ear.
  • Lost out for the role in Titanic (1997) which went to Billy Zane.
  • Mike Myers is known to have resurrected Rob`s acting career. He and Rob became close friends while filming Wayne`s World (1992). Myers gave him an unbilled role in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) (although the scene was deleted in editing) and gave him a role as the young Number Two in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).
  • Nominated for a supporting Golden Globe award for his performance as a retarded youth in Square Dance (1987).
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