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Andrea Lowe (born 1 January 1975) is an English TV, film, and theatre actress. Lowe got her first major role in the Harold Pinter play The Birthday Party at Sheffield‘s Crucible Theatre. She has played numerous roles on television, stage, and film. However, she is most known for her 5-year turn as Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot in the ITV series DCI Banks (2011–2016).

Early life

Lowe was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire[1] on 1 January 1975.[2] She attended Redhill Comprehensive School,[3][4] the Lesley Reason School of Dance in Gedling[4] and the Carlton TV acting academy.[2] She also performed with the theatre group, Acorn.[1][3] Lowe later studied English and theatre in London[1] at Goldsmiths College.[4]

Career

Lowe started her theatre career at Sheffield‘s Crucible Theatre in the play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter.[1]

In 1993, she had her first film role, alongside Samantha Morton, in the musical comedy drama The Token King, set in a high school in Nottingham. Among her extensive work since then, Lowe guest-starred in two episodes of the second season of The Tudors in which she played Lady Eleanor Luke, a fictional noblewoman who was briefly the mistress of Henry VIII, and played Vicky in the 2009 TV film, The Unloved.

Lowe played the role of Annie Cabbot for 5 years in the British television network ITV series DCI Banks (2011–2016), having also played the role in its pilot, DCI Banks: Aftermath (2010). Lowe was absent for much of the second season as she and her character were on maternity leave.[5]

Lowe starred in Alan Ayckbourn‘s play How the Other Half Loves alongside Jenny Seagrove and Jason Merrells at the Duke of York’s Theatre, the West End theatre, on St Martin’s Lane, London in 2016. In 2023, she starred in Dixon and Daughters at the National Theatre.[6]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes
2000 Threesome Melanie Short film
Pandaemonium Edith Southey
2002 Club Le Monde Sarah
2004 The Rover’s Return Zoe Short film
Room to Let Rebecca
2010 Route Irish Rachel
2011 Taking Life Charlotte Short film
2012 When the Lights Went Out Rita
2013 The Arbiter Kate
2014 I Don’t Care Ollie Short film
2020 Joey Annie
2024 Lollipop Kim
2025 To Love a Narcissist Lucy

Television

Year Film Role Notes
1993 The Token King Kim Television film
2000 The Bill Hayley Turner Episode: “Soft Talking”
Nature Boy Claire Whitaker Mini-series; episode 4
Doctors Jackie Dean Episode: “Second Chance”
The Sleeper Donna Dawes 2-part television film
2001 Peak Practice Zoë Thomson Episode: “Suffer the Little Children”
2002 Night Flight Margaret Television film
Rescue Me Melanie Woods 6 episodes
Fields of Gold W.P.C. Unknown episodes
2004 No Angels Julia Episode: #1.9
A Thing Called Love Liz Leech 5 episodes
2005 Love Soup Tina Episode: “The Reflecting Pool”
2006 The Bill Leigh Bevan Episodes: “High Flyers” & “Special Relationships”
Murder City Helen Osborn Episode: “Death of a Ladies’ Man”
Where the Heart Is Zoë Phelps Series 10; 9 episodes
Cracker Elaine Archer Special episode: “Nine Eleven”
2006–2007 The Innocence Project Philippa Lucas 3 episodes
2007 Casualty Lisa Barker Episode: “The Silence of Friends”
Hotel Babylon Karen Episode: #2.7
New Tricks Tina Murphy Episode: “Buried Treasure”
Agatha Christie’s Marple Maureen Episode: “Ordeal by Innocence”
Murphy’s Law DC Kim Goodall Episodes: “Food Chain: Parts 1–3”
2008 Torchwood Katie Episode: “Fragments”
The Bill Paula Grant Episode: “Blood Rush: Part 2”
The Tudors Lady Eleanor Luke Episodes: “Checkmate” & “The Act of Succession”
No Heroics Vicci Episode: “Supergroupie”
Silent Witness Emily Wright Episodes: “Terror: Parts 1 & 2”
2009 Shameless Zeta Series 6; 3 episodes
The Unloved Vicky Television film
Coronation Street Naomi Collins 2 episodes
2010 Accused Donna Armstrong Episode: “Kenny’s Story”
2010–2016 DCI Banks DS Annie Cabbot Series 1–5; 27 episodes
2011 Monroe Mrs. Chadwick 2 episodes
2012 Love Life Lucy Mini-series, 3 episodes
2014 Midsomer Murders Ava Gould Episode: “Let Us Prey”
Inspector George Gently Cherry Stretch Episode: “Blue for Bluebird”
Lewis Philippa Garwood Episodes: “The Lions of Nemea: Parts 1 & 2”
2016 Houdini & Doyle Beatrice Upton Mini-series; episode: “A Dish of Adharma”
2017 Trust Me Ally Sutton 2 episodes
2018 Agatha Raisin Eve Pembery Episode: “The Wizard of Evesham”
2022 Endeavour Pauline Lunn Episode: “Scherzo”
Sherwood DI Taylor Series 1; 6 episodes
Without Sin Bobbi Carter Mini-series; 4 episodes
2023 Mrs Sidhu Investigates Jade Turtle Episode: “Killer App”
2026 Beyond Paradise Helen Linder Episode: #4.1

Selected theatre work

References

  1. ^ a b c d Nottingham – Features – Andrea Lowe, star of Rescue Me. BBC (5 March 2002). Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b “My life of crime, by DCI Banks’ right-hand woman”. Yorkshire Post. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2025. Born in Arnold, in Nottinghamshire, she celebrated her 40th birthday on New Year’s Day. There wasn’t any acting in the family, but Andrea showed a talent for performing, and was a keen student at the then Carlton TV acting academy. Her first professional stage appearance was at the Sheffield Crucible theatre
  3. ^ a b “BBC – Nottingham – Features – Andrea’s Lowe-down on TV drama”. www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b c “DCI Banks: Nottingham actress Andrea Lowe returns in ITV show”. Nottinghamshire Live. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  5. ^ Dowling, Tim (10 October 2012). “TV review: DCI Banks; Great British Food Revival”. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  6. ^ “Dark comedy of buried trauma”. Islington Gazette. 18 May 2023. p. 15. Retrieved 10 September 2025.