Editing Rob Lowe (section)

===1970s===

Lowe got his first professional acting role in 1976 when he was 12 and still living in Dayton.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/405732835/|title=Boy, 12, sets his cap for stardom as actor|date=August 14, 1976|newspaper=Dayton (OH) Daily News|access-date=July 29, 2021|archive-date=July 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731061113/https://www.newspapers.com/image/405732835/|url-status=live}}</ref> He played an errand boy in a production of ''Sherlock Holmes'' at the [[Wright State University]] summer theater. He landed the part by calling every local theater and asking each if there was a part for a child in a play. Lowe was paid $150 for the role. In 1979, Lowe landed the part of Tony Flanagan in the short-lived television comedy ''[[A New Kind of Family]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A New Kind of Family|url=http://epguides.com/NewKindofFamily/|url-status=live|website=epguides.com|access-date=August 14, 2021|archive-date=August 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814031229/http://epguides.com/NewKindofFamily/}}</ref>