Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The first significant story about Rob Lowe appeared in the Dayton Daily News on Aug. 14, 1976.
Lowe, the Dayton native who would become one of the country’s biggest stars of movies and TV, had just secured his first professional part at age 12. The story under the headline “Boy, 12, sets his cap for stardom as actor,” included information that Lowe basically got himself the part.
For Lowe’s 58th birthday today, March 17, we went into the archives for some of our earliest coverage of the actor, including his confidence at his earliest stages.
“You just call any place and ask them if there’s a part for a kid,” Lowe said of his process for getting the part in “Sherlock Holmes” at the Wright State University summer theater in 1976.
“I called Wright State and they said, ‘Yes.’”
Lowe had just finished sixth grade at Longfellow Middle School. The story said he signed up for an acting class at the Dayton Playhouse at 8 years old after seeing a play he enjoyed.
