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Rob Lowe and Julia Ormond are set to star in cable TV network Lifetime's Beach Girls. Based on Luanne Rice's bestselling novel, the six-hour miniseries stars Lowe as a grieving widower who retires to a New England coastal community. Ormond plays a childhood friend of Lowe's late wife -- one of the titular "beach girls" -- who gets drawn back into his life.
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Synopsis: In this thriller, Rob Lowe is a prison inmate who hears more than he was meant to when the convict in the next cell is murdered. The inmate discovers that the murder is just one of a series of killings meant to thin out the inmate population, with the guards working in collusion with members of aRead More
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Rob Lowe is deftly placing a producer's hat atop his perfect head of hair, teaming with writer Alison Cross (Commander in Chief) to create a procedural pilot for ABC. The project, says Variety, concerns the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-stalking unit, and represents the first offering out of Lowe's new production shingle. Lowe tells the trade he originally conceived the idea more than a year ago and as a starring vehicle for himself. Now it will be fronted by someone else (Andrew McCarthy? Emilio Estevez?), seeing how his dance card is full as a Brothers & Sisters series regular. read more
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Thin and wiry with delicate, somewhat androgynous features, Rob Lowe was inspired to become an actor after seeing a Dayton, Ohio production of "Oliver!" when he was ten years old. After his parents' divorce, he and younger brother Chad moved to L.A. with their mother. Lowe found work in TV commercials before landing the plum role of Eileen Brennan's son in the short-lived ABC sitcom "A New Kind of Family" (1979). After a spell of failed pilots and "Afterschool Specials", the young actor landed his first screen role as Patrick Swayze's brother in Francis Ford Coppola's paean to teenagers "The Outsiders" (1983).
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American actor Rob Lowe was born on March 17, 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The son of a lawyer and a teacher, his parents divorced when he was young, though they remarried later on. He is ... the brother of actor Chad Lowe, and while his grandparents were Methodist Protestants, he was baptized as an Episcopalian. He attended Santa Monica High School alongside fellow actor Emilio Estevez, and was voted “most spirited.” As he pursued his acting career, he became a member of the famed Brat Pack in the 1980s which appeared in teen-oriented movies, among them The Outsiders, The Breakfast Club, About Last Night…, and St. Elmo’s Fire.
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In A Perfect Day, a TNT original movie, Rob Lowe plays a novelist who lets overnight success get the better of him. He enjoys the money that comes from writing a bestseller, of course. But the real high for Robert Harlan, Lowe's character, is having an adoring public. He becomes addicted to fame. And as is often the case with addictions, he changes. A dark, ugly side emerges.
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