Alice Lowe
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
Credits
- 2025 · The Extraordinary Miss Flower as Self
- 2024 · Generation Terror as Herself
- 2024 · Timestalker as Agnes
- 2024 · Swede Caroline as Olga
- 2023 · Partygate as Shelley Williams-Walker
- 2023 · Greatest Days as Heather
- 2023 · Lockwood & Co. as Adelaide Winkman
- 2022 · The Almond and the Seahorse as Cath
- 2022 · God's Petting You as Therapist
- 2021 · Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror as Self
- 2021 · Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break as Kath
- 2020 · Verisimilitude as Casting Director
- 2020 · Eternal Beauty as Alice
- 2020 · Days of the Bagnold Summer as Carol
- 2020 · Hitmen as Kirsty (voice)
- 2019 · Innocence as
- 2019 · Dark Encounter as Arlene Burroughs
- 2019 · The Fight as Heather
- 2019 · Sometimes Always Never as Sue
- 2019 · Get Duked! as Superintendent
- 2018 · Black Mirror: Bandersnatch as Dr. Haynes
- 2018 · Salt as Mother
- 2018 · Hang Ups as Celia Cain
- 2018 · Solis as Commander Roberts
- 2018 · Wild Honey Pie! as Gerry
- 2017 · The Ghoul as Kathleen
- 2017 · Chubby Funny as Susan
- 2017 · Prevenge as Ruth
- 2016 · Ghosted as Rebecca
- 2016 · Burn Burn Burn as Davina
- 2016 · Stoner Express as Roxy
- 2016 · Adult Life Skills as Alice
- 2016 · Flowers as Paula
- 2016 · Black Mountain Poets as Lisa
- 2015 · Mosquito as
- 2015 · Aaaaaaaah! as Sitcom Eudora
- 2015 · Night Feed as Young Mum
- 2015 · Joseph's Reel as The Projectionist
- 2015 · Seance Time as Amanda
- 2014 · Electricity as Sylvia
- 2014 · Paddington as Geographers' Guild Receptionist
- 2014 · Solitudo as Nun
- 2014 · Girl Power as Alex
- 2014 · Locke as Sister Margaret (voice)
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Amanda
- 2013 · The Field as Sylvia
- 2013 · The World's End as Young Lady
- 2013 · The Last Summer on Earth as Sherry-Ann
- 2011 · Kill List as Radio Reporter
- 2010 · This Christmastime as Val Hallah
- 2010 · Come Fly with Me as Young Mum
- 2010 · Brethren as Alice
- 2010 · Sherlock as Tessa
- 2010 · Dead Happy as Lucy the Grim Reaper
- 2010 · This Is Jinsy as Soosan Noop
- 2009 · Horrible Histories as Various
- 2009 · Horrible Histories as
- 2008 · Beehive as
- 2008 · Beautiful People as Stacey Bile
- 2008 · Connections as Wife
- 2007 · Angelo's as Alicia
- 2007 · Hot Fuzz as Tina
- 2006 · Man to Man with Dean Learner as
- 2006 · The IT Crowd as Patricia
- 2004 · My Life in Film as Beth
- 2004 · The Mighty Boosh as Monkey
- 2004 · Garth Marenghi's Darkplace as Madeleine Wool / Liz Asher
- 2004 · Garth Marenghi's Darkplace as Liz Asher
- Future · Rogue Trooper as
- 2013 · Pieces as Woman
- 2012 · Sightseers as Tina
- 2007 · Out of Water as Maria Bootle
- Future · 152 Days as
- 2007 · Sticks & Balls as Kitty Litta
- 2005 · Stiffy as Corpse
- 2000 · Black Books as Solicitor