Andrea Lowe

Andrea Lowe (Arnold, Nottingham, 1 January 1975) is an English actress.

Lowe was born in a suburb of Nottingham in the middle of England. She started her theater career in Sheffield with The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. Since then, she appeared regularly in the theatre, and when 18-year-old, she played for the first time in a film, a musical comedy. Then she got a number of supporting roles until she played the female lead in 2010 in the British drama-thriller Route Irish .

Except on the stage and in the film studio Lowe played so far in a score of tv series and television films, including three episodes of Coronation Street (2009), the longest-running soap opera ever. Andrea Lowe is also known in Netherlands and Belgium of different series that were broadcast on television, including The Tudors (2008), Silent Witness (2008), Torchwood (2008) and recently DCI Banks (2011), in which she plays the female lead opposite Stephen Tompkinson .