Lynn Lowry
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October 15, 1947
Lynn Lowry | |
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 Lowry interviewed by Count Gore de Vol in 2009 | |
| Born | Linda Kay Lowry October 15, 1947 East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupations | Actress, screenwriter, film producer |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Children | 1 |
Linda Kay "Lynn" Lowry (born October 15, 1947)[1] is an American actress, screenwriter and producer. She is known for her work in horror films, having appeared in the cult films I Drink Your Blood (1970), George A. Romero's The Crazies (1973) and David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975).
Lowry was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and lived in Cahokia, Illinois, during her early childhood.[2] At age twelve, she relocated with her family to Burbank, California and later, Atlanta, Georgia, where her father transferred for work.[2]
Lowry enrolled at the University of Georgia on a scholarship in 1966, studying theater for two years. She later worked as a Playboy Bunny at the Atlanta Playboy Club, and gave birth to her son. In 1969, Lowry moved with her son to New York City, working as a bartender while auditioning for acting roles.[2]
Career
While auditioning for a role in Joe (1970) in New York City, Lowry met Lloyd Kaufman, who asked her to appear in a supporting part in The Battle of Love's Return (1971), which she accepted.[2] After completing the film in early 1970, she was cast in David Durston's horror film I Drink Your Blood (1970).[3]
Lowry appeared in two key 1970s horror films, George A. Romero's The Crazies (1973)[4] and David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975), followed by a sixteen-month role as the adulterer-heroine Sandra Henderson on NBC's short-lived soap opera How to Survive a Marriage, as well as a brief part on the daytime serial Another World.[5] Lowry was also one of the two female leads in Radley Metzger's film Score (1974). She also starred opposite Peter Fonda in Jonathan Demme's action thriller Fighting Mad (1976).
Lowry moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, but ended up largely abandoning her acting career after appearing in Cat People (1982). "I was in Hollywood and I just got tired of the bullshit," she said. "I wasn’t doing horror movies when I was in Hollywood, I was just going out for TV and other auditions and I got tired so I gave it up; I focused on doing theatre and even sang in a band."[1]
After sporadic appearances in the 1980s and 1990s, Lowry returned to acting in 2005 and her subsequent films included Splatter Disco, Basement Jack and Schism, which she co-wrote and co-produced.[6] In 2010, she had a cameo appearance in the remake of her earlier film The Crazies. Lowry also starred in Dante Tomaselli's Torture Chamber (2013).[7] In 2015, she co-starred with Debbie Rochon in the horror film The House of Covered Mirrors.[8][9] In 2022, Lowry starred as Gina Cochran in Richard Burgin's Fang, for which she won four film festival awards.[10]
