John Patrick Lowrie


John Patrick Lowrie is an American actor, musician and author best known for voicing the Sniper in Team Fortress 2 and various characters in Dota 2.
He has played Sherlock Holmes on the radio drama series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the program Imagination Theatre since 2001. He also voiced Holmes in the program's related radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He and Lawrence Albert, who voices Dr. Watson on the program, are the longest-running audio Holmes and Watson team in American radio history.

Career

Lowrie has performed roles in video games such as The Suffering and ', Total Annihilation and its expansions, ' and '. Lowrie is mostly recognized for his voice acting in Valve games such as Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, ', , Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, and Artifact.
He is noted for playing the roles of the Sniper in the online multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2, Agent Gray in the MMORPG The Matrix Online, as well as Odessa Cubbage and the male citizens in Half-Life 2. Lowrie plays Sherlock Holmes in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a radio show produced by Jim French Productions. In 2011, he published a science fiction novel named Dancing with Eternity.

Personal life

His adolescence was spent in Boulder, Colorado where he attended various high schools briefly before joining the United States Navy. He studied for a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Indiana University. He has been married to Ellen McLain since 1986. McLain also works as a voice actress, and has starred alongside him in Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2.

Works

Video games