Susan Lowe


Susan Lowe is an American actress, educator and painter. She has appeared exclusively in the works of John Waters for most of her career, starring in ten of his films.

About

Lowe was born in Reidsville, North Carolina on January 19, 1948. She was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the 1960s, when she became friends with Divine and other Dreamlanders.
Her first role with Waters was playing an asylum inmate in Mondo Trasho. She continued to play small parts in many of his films, but played the lead role of Mole McHenry, the ultra-butch bleach blonde lesbian, in Desperate Living.
She has taught art history classes at MICA, Catonsville Community College, and University of Maryland.

Personal life

Lowe has been married twice, and has two children. Her first husband was a drawing teacher at MICA, where Lowe had worked as a model. They were married in Ireland and had two children, Ruby and Ramsey. The marriage ended seven years later. She later married Frank Tomboro of Baltimore, and that marriage also ended.

Filmography