[5] Lowell broke into acting with the film Dangerously Close followed by a small role in the Robin Williams movie Club Paradise.

[4] She went on to roles including co-starring as Bond girl Pam Bouvier in the James Bond movie Licence to Kill (1989) and, starting in 1996, as Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross for two seasons on the television drama Law & Order, a character she reprised in 2005 for a guest role on its spinoff, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and again on the original series in 2022 when it returned for a 21st season.

[6] Immediately before getting that role, however, she had become frustrated with her acting career and had applied to study documentary filmmaking at New York University.

In 2012, Lowell lent her likeness and voice while reprising her Licence to Kill role in the video game 007 Legends.

The couple spent three years in highly contested divorce proceedings in New York Supreme Court.