John Patrick Lowrie

John Patrick Lowrie (born June 28, 1952) is an American voice actor best known for voicing the Sniper in Team Fortress 2 and various characters in Dota 2.

He has been married to Ellen McLain since 1986, and has voiced characters alongside her in Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, and Dota 2.

He has played Sherlock Holmes in the radio series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes since 2001.

Lowrie has performed roles in video games such as The Suffering and The Suffering: Ties That Bind, Total Annihilation and its expansions, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way.

Lowrie is mostly recognized for his voice acting in Valve games such as Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, and Artifact.

He is noted for playing the roles of the Sniper in the online first-person shooter game Team Fortress 2, Agent Gray in the MMORPG The Matrix Online, as well as Odessa Cubbage and the male citizens in Half-Life 2.

Lowrie has played Sherlock Holmes in the radio drama series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the program Imagination Theatre since 2001.

He also voiced Holmes in the program's related radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

He and Lawrence Albert, who voices Dr. Watson on the program, are the longest-running audio Holmes and Watson team in American radio history.

In 2011, he published a science fiction novel titled Dancing with Eternity.

An audiobook version narrated by Lowrie and his wife Ellen McLain was released in April 2014.

His adolescence was spent in Boulder, Colorado, where he attended various high schools briefly before joining the United States Navy.

He studied for a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Indiana University School of Music.