Rob Lowe

Birthday: 17 March 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Birth Name: Robert Hepler Lowe

Height: 180 cm

Rob Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Barbara Lynn (Hepler), a schoolteacher, and Charles Davis Lowe, a lawyer. His brother is actor Chad Lowe. He has German, as well as English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Lowe's family moved to Dayton, Ohio, when he was a child. Rob broke into acting in his teens. He spent the 1980s as a member of the "Brat Pack", a group of young, powerful and reckless actors and actresses that included Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Judd Nelson, among others. In 1988 Lowe was involved in a scandal centering around a sexually explicit videotape which involved a minor, for which he did 20 hours of community service in Dayton. He subsequently sought help for his problems with drugs and alcohol and has re-emerged in the 1990s as a clean and sober husband and father. Show less «

[on his short-lived sitcom, A New Kind of Family (1979)] It was notable only for how bad it was.

[on the late Patrick Swayze] He was an expert dancer, he wrote hit songs, he starred in hit movies, ...Show more »

[on the late Patrick Swayze] He was an expert dancer, he wrote hit songs, he starred in hit movies, he was an amazing horseman. But the thing I will remember him most for was his amazing love affair with his wife, Lisa [Lisa Niemi]. He played my brother twice, in The Outsiders (1983) when I was 17, and then in Youngblood (1986). Tonight, I lost a brother. Show less «

[on the death of James Gandolfini] James Gandolfini gave the greatest performance in the history of ...Show more »

[on the death of James Gandolfini] James Gandolfini gave the greatest performance in the history of television. He was also a kind man. Condolences to his family. Show less «

When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens an...Show more »

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. Show less «

... One of the great gifts we get (as actors) is that we live on, frozen in time, forever... Truly, ...Show more »

... One of the great gifts we get (as actors) is that we live on, frozen in time, forever... Truly, the most fulfilling moments I've ever had are on the stage. If you can't have that as an actor, then you might as well at least have that other great thing, which is immortality. Show less «

A few years ago I got to a point where I realized that the only way you can tell someone's age is ho...Show more »

A few years ago I got to a point where I realized that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing. Show less «