John Patrick Lowrie (born June 28, 1952) is an American actor, musician and author best known for voicing the Sniper in ''

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'' and various characters in ''

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''. He has played

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in the radio series ''

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'' since 2001.

Career

Lowrie has performed roles in video games such as '' The Suffering'' and '' The Suffering: Ties That Bind'', ''

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'' and its expansions, '' The Operative: No One Lives Forever'' and '' No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way''. Lowrie is mostly recognized for his voice acting in Valve games such as ''

'', ''

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'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode One'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', ''

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'', ''

'', and '' Artifact''. He is noted for playing the roles of the Sniper in the online

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game ''Team Fortress 2'', Agent Gray in the

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'', as well as Odessa Cubbage and the male citizens in ''Half-Life 2''. Lowrie has played

in the radio drama series ''

'' on the program '' Imagination Theatre'' since 2001. He also voiced Holmes in the program's related radio series ''

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''. He and Lawrence Albert, who voices

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on the program, are the longest-running audio Holmes and Watson team in American radio history. He wrote a science fiction novel published in 2011 titled ''Dancing with Eternity''.

Personal life

His adolescence was spent in

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where he attended various high schools briefly before joining the

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. He studied for a

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in Music Composition at

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. He has been married to

Ellen McLain Ellen McLain (born 1952/1953) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series, the Combine Overwatch in ''Half-Life 2'', and the Administrator, the an ...

since 1986. McLain also works as a voice actor, and has starred alongside him in ''Half-Life 2'', ''Team Fortress 2'', and ''Dota 2''.

Works

Video games

Animation

References

External links

Official website
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