Her parents were both from inner city Dublin: her father grew up in the Tenters and her mother was from Pearse St. Lowe inherited her musical talent from her mother, Anne, who sang with a Dublin showband in her youth and although untrained, could hold an audience at family gatherings with her rendition of Ave Maria.
Lowe’s first professional engagement was in 1980 as a chorus member in Speak of the Devil starring Rosaleen Linehan and Des Keogh at the Olympia Theatre. Lowe went on to have starring roles with the Dublin Grand Opera Society and the Rathmines and Rathgar and Glasnevin Musical Societies. These included the Cherubino in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Mother Marie in Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, La Contessa in Verdi’s Rigoletto and Flora in Verid’s La Traviata.
David Agnew, former oboist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra remembers his first encounter with Lowe. “She can’t have been more than 17 or 18 yet she had magnetic stage presence, a mane of jet black hair and sparkling dark eyes. You could sense someone who had found exactly what she wanted to do and where she wanted to be,” he said.
In 2004, she joined the cast of Fair City as the Brazilian housekeeper, Francesca da Silva, the love interest of garage mechanic Ray O’Donnell played by Mick Nolan. She appeared in the soap until 2006 and around this time, in true operatic fashion, romance blossomed in real life as well as on set for the two actors.
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