IT'S been a busy year for Borders actor Jack Lowden.

And there's more to come. A starring role as disgraced maverick golden boy MI5 agent River Cartwright alongside Gary Oldman in the hugely popular spy thriller Slow Horses has seen his odds of replacing Daniel Craig as the next James Bond slashed to 20/1.

Slow Horses which is based on Mick Herron’s 2010 novel of the same name premiered on Friday, April 1, 2022 on subscription service Apple Tv+ and the opening scene could easily have been from a Bond script as Agent Cartwright chased a suspected suicide bomber through a crowded airport.

A second series which will adapt the next book in Mick Herron’s “Dead Lions” series has already been filmed with an expected release date of late 2022.

Lowden is set to star alongside Hugh Bonneville and Dominic Cooper in a BBC series inspired by the true story of the infamous Brink’s-Mat robbery.

The Gold will follow the decades-long chain of events that followed what has been described as “the crime of the century” and air across six episodes on BBC One and Paramount+ globally.

Border Telegraph: Jack Lowden, Christopher Chung, Olivia Cooke and Paul Higgins who are starring in the new Apple espionage series Slow Horses.Jack Lowden, Christopher Chung, Olivia Cooke and Paul Higgins who are starring in the new Apple espionage series Slow Horses.

Born in Chelmsford but brought up in the small Borders village of Oxton, Lowden’s impressive CV includes playing well-known characters such as Eric Liddle in the stage version of Chariots of Fire, young Tom Morris in Tommy’s Honour, Morrissey in England is Mine and Lord Darnley in Mary Queen of Scots.

Other notable films include Dunkirk, Calibre and Fighting with my Family.

Oh, and he’s just finished a photoshoot with Vogue.