American actor Rob Lowe was born on March 17, 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The son of a lawyer and a teacher, his parents divorced when he was young, though they remarried later on. He is also the brother of actor Chad Lowe, and while his grandparents were Methodist Protestants, he was baptized as an Episcopalian. He attended Santa Monica High School alongside fellow actor Emilio Estevez, and was voted “most spirited.” As he pursued his acting career, he became a member of the famed Brat Pack in the 1980s which appeared in teen-oriented movies, among them The Outsiders, The Breakfast Club, About Last Night…, and St. Elmo’s Fire.

Samuel Norman ‘Sam’ Seaborn is portrayed by Rob Lowe in the Emmy Award-winning political television drama The West Wing. A native of Laguna Beach in California and a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, he works as the White House’s Deputy Communications Director in the administration of President Josiah Bartlet. He is particularly proud of his alma mater, constantly making references to it, and was also the recording secretary of the Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He also attended Duke Law School and worked previously at a major law firm in New York City.



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