Alice Lowe
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 3, 1977 (age 49)
- Place of birth
- Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK
- Credits
- 81
An English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is known for her roles in the Garth Marenghi series and as the lead and co-writer of the 2012 film Sightseers. She wrote, directed and starred in the 2016 black comedy Prevenge, whilst pregnant herself.
Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge, where she studied classics. At university she became involved in theatre and comedy.
Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress in Flying Machine co-devising and performed along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell.
Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King, who has since directed her in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. She was cast in Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight alongside fellow Cambridge graduates Richard Ayoade and Matt Holness and they were nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000. In 2001, she won an award for performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Her television credits include Channel 4's spoof horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Beth in the BBC comedy series My Life in Film, David Bowie in the BBC series Snuff Box, and a recurring role in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. She was part of the all-female comedy show Beehive 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 Histories during the second, third and fifth seasons. Her BBC Three pilot "LifeSpam: My Child Is French" was broadcast in 2009, 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, a solicitor in the "Travel Writer" episode of Black Books, Madonna in an episode of Channel 4's Star Stories, and episodes of Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul, Beautiful People and This is Jinsy. She appeared in the music video for "Bastardo" by Charlotte Hatherley, directed by Edgar Wright.
Known for
Filmography
Out There
2026Movie
Rogue Trooper
2026Movie
(voice)
Dirty Business
2026TV
Susan Day
Saipan
2025Movie
Fiona McCarthy
The Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025Movie
Self
Pomegranate
2025Movie
Alice
Generation Terror
2024Movie
Self
Timestalker
2024Movie
Agnes
Swede Caroline
2024Movie
Olga
Partygate
2023Movie
Shelley Williams-Walker
Greatest Days
2023Movie
Heather
Lockwood & Co.
2023TV
Adelaide Winkman
The Almond and the Seahorse
2022Movie
Cath
God's Petting You
2022Movie
Therapist
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021Movie
Self
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021Movie
Kath
Verisimilitude
2020Movie
Casting Director
Eternal Beauty
2020Movie
Alice
Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020Movie
Carol
Hitmen
2020TV
Kirsty (voice)
Innocence
2019Movie
Dark Encounter
2019Movie
Arlene Burroughs
The Fight
2019Movie
Heather
Sometimes Always Never
2019Movie
Sue
Get Duked!
2019Movie
Superintendent
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018Movie
Dr. Haynes
Salt
2018Movie
Mother
Hang Ups
2018TV
Celia Cain
Solis
2018Movie
Commander Roberts
Wild Honey Pie!
2018Movie
Gerry
The Ghoul
2017Movie
Kathleen
Chubby Funny
2017Movie
Susan
Prevenge
2017Movie
Ruth
Ghosted
2016Movie
Rebecca
Burn Burn Burn
2016Movie
Davina
Stoner Express
2016Movie
Roxy
Adult Life Skills
2016Movie
Alice
Flowers
2016TV
Paula
Black Mountain Poets
2016Movie
Lisa
Mosquito
2015Movie
Aaaaaaaah!
2015Movie
Sitcom Eudora
Night Feed
2015Movie
Young Mum
Joseph's Reel
2015Movie
The Projectionist
Electricity
2014Movie
Sylvia
Paddington
2014Movie
Geographers' Guild Receptionist
Solitudo
2014Movie
Nun
Girl Power
2014Movie
Alex
Locke
2014Movie
Sister Margaret (voice)
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Amanda
Crackanory
2013TV
Various
Pieces
2013Movie
Woman
The Field
2013Movie
Sylvia
The World's End
2013Movie
Young Lady
The Last Summer on Earth
2013Movie
Sherry-Ann
Sightseers
2012Movie
Tina
Kill List
2011Movie
Radio Reporter
This Christmastime
2010Movie
Val Hallah
Come Fly with Me
2010TV
Young Mum
Brethren
2010Movie
Alice
Sherlock
2010TV
Tessa
Dead Happy
2010Movie
Lucy the Grim Reaper
This Is Jinsy
2010TV
Soosan Noop
Horrible Histories
2009TV
Various
Beehive
2008TV
Beautiful People
2008TV
Stacey Bile
Connections
2008Movie
Wife
Angelo's
2007TV
Alicia
Out of Water
2007Movie
Maria Bootle
Hot Fuzz
2007Movie
Tina
Skins
2007TV
Jemima
Sticks & Balls
2007Movie
Kitty Litta
Man to Man with Dean Learner
2006TV
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006TV
Snuff Box
2006TV
David Bowie
The IT Crowd
2006TV
Patricia
Stiffy
2005Movie
Corpse
My Life in Film
2004TV
Beth
The Mighty Boosh
2004TV
Monkey
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004TV
Madeleine Wool / Liz Asher
Black Books
2000TV
Solicitor
152 Days
Movie