Scottish actor Jack Lowden will be filling the BIG shoes of Mr. Darcy in the upcoming Pride and Prejudice adaptation currently in production, and I’m nervous he won’t be up to the task! The problem is I mostly associate him with a Very Not Good War and Peace adaptation. You can see a sneak peek of Lowden filming P&P on Reddit, but we’ll have to wait until the series is released on Netflix to know for sure (no release date or even year yet, but I’m guessing 2026)? Lowden will also star in the upcoming Berlin Noir TV series set in 1928 (you guessed it) Berlin.
There’s only one production for which I can’t find any images:
- Alan Wright in Mrs Biggs (2012)
For the rest, here’s Lowden in historical films & TV series!
Oswald Alving in Ghosts (2014)
A TV presentation of the live Ibsen stage play (1882).
Michael in The Passing Bells (2014)
A BBC TV miniseries showing World War I from the perspective of two young men, one English and one German.
Thomas Wyatt in Wolf Hall (2015)
I totally forgot Lowden was in this adaptation of the Hilary Mantel novel about Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, and Anne Boleyn! Is that a good or bad thing? Wyatt as the courtier and poet who was rumored to have had an affair with Anne Boleyn.
Dobkins in Pan (2015)
A fantasy film prequel to the Peter Pan play/story. Lowden’s role is uncredited.
Nikolai Rostov in War & Peace (2016)
He plays the drippiest drip EVER in this adaptation Tolstoy novel set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. Okay, it’s probably not entirely Lowden’s fault that I hate this character…
Tommy Morris in Tommy’s Honour (2016)
A feature film about the “lives and careers of, and the complex relationship between, the pioneering Scottish golfing champions Old Tom Morris [1821-1908] and his son Young Tom Morris [Lowden]” per Wikipedia.
Tony Benn in A United Kingdom (2016)
He plays a British MP in this based-on-a-true-story film about the 1948 marriage between King Seretse Khama of Botswana and Englishwoman Ruth Williams.
Collins in Dunkirk (2017)
Lowden plays the Spitfire pilot who is forced to ditch out of his plane and is rescued by one of the small English ships heading to (or from) Dunkirk, France to rescue stranded British soldiers during World War II.
Henry Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Oh god, another doozy! Darnley is another easily-punchable (real life) character — the whiny traitorous sexist etc. English nobleman who marries Mary Queen of Scots and basically screws things up.
Robert Goodwin in The Long Song (2018)
A miniseries set during a slave rebellion in 1831-32 Jamaica. Lowden plays a plantation overseer.
Crawford in Capone (2020)
A biopic about the famous gangster Al Capone after his release from prison in the 1940s.
Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction (2021)
A biopic about World War I soldier and poet Sassoon (Lowden), who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance.
Little Sugar in Tornado (2025)
Set in 1790s Scotland, “A Japanese puppeteer’s daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang.” Lowden plays one of the gang leaders.
What’s your favorite of Jack Lowden’s frock flicks roles? Do you think he can take on Mr. Darcy?
Watched Tornado a couple of nights ago. It was crap. Not sure why they bothered with the particular period because half of them were in holey sweaters (was that a thing, knitted sweaters in late 18c?!) and I didn’t see any of the 18c silhouettes.
Big fan of Lowden in Slow Horses, and have heard he’s one of the rumoured ones for the next Bond.
FFS, not another P&P adaptation! I. Can’t. Even. (okay, rant over, lol).
Much to my amusement, I believe that Mr Lowden and Ms Saorise Ronan actually shacked up on MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, before proceeding to do rather better romantically than their characters.
Long may that continue to be the case, Royal Stuart breakups tend to be murder.
No, literally.
Minor correction but the photo used for Pan is Gareth Hedlund as Hook, not Jack Lowden. Looks like his role was minor enough that there’s no photos of him as Dobkins online.
Also while I like Mr. Saoirse Ronan as an actor – Slow Horses is a great show – I’m hesitant about the new P&P solely because it’s Netflix producing and we saw how they attempted (and failed) to modernize Persuasion so I don’t trust them with any of Austen’s other works.
Garrett Hedlund, not Gareth.
He’s great (as is the show) in ‘Slow Horses’ but afraid of what Netflix is doing to P&P… especially given photos I’ve seen.
Why, Netflix, why???
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He’s great (as is the show) in ‘Slow Horses’ but am leery of what Netflix is doing to P&P… given photos I’ve seen.
Why, Netflix, why??
I really like him in “Slow Horses”, so I’m confident he’ll make a great Mr. Darcy. I am considerably less optimistic about the production design. And do I think the world needed another P&P? Well, no, but it’s too late to worry about that now.
I’d also forgotten he was in “Wolf Hall”–good casting. (But the Darnley hair!!! They had Brylcreem back then?)
It’s been 20 years since the last straightforward adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”. And yes, Lowden is up to the task as the new Darcy. I’ve been a fan of his ever since I had seen him in “War & “Peace”, which I had enjoyed very much and “Dunkirk”.
I’m also nervous about yet another P&P adaptation, the costumes look uninspired from what I’ve seen.
CHRIST he was hot in Dunkrk, and that was a movie chock full of hotties. I think it’s the blue RAF uniform and the blue ocean and his blue, blue eyes.
Also, killin’ Nazis adds an automatic +2 to any character’s hotness – just look at Marshal Zhukov in THE DEATH OF STALIN.
I like a lot of the things Lowden has done, but another P&P? Don’t we have enough already?
He seems more like a Col. Fitzwilliam to me. I don’t feel any great excitement to watch another adaptation of P&P though, my dream is for a Robert Eggers “Northanger Abbey”
Oooh. Love! Although, I suspect, the humour might become a bit of an issue there.