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Wes Bentley stars as Detective John Lowe in the fifth installment of American Horror Story: Hotel.&nbsp;

Career Highlights

Wes Bentley is an American actor who first became well known for his role in the Oscar®-winning film American Beauty, in which he played the soulful, artistic next-door neighbor of “Angela” (Mena Suvari), “Ricky Fitts.” He also portrayed gamemaker “Seneca Crane” in The Hunger Games, and co-stared in Lovelace as photographer “Thomas.”Born September 4, 1978, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Bentley participated in drama club and cultivated a specific interest in improvisational comedy while attending Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood, Arkansas, and founded an improv troupe with his brother Patrick Bentley and friends Damien Bunting and Josh Cowdery. At his mother’s urging, Bentley attended Juilliard School in New York after high school graduation, but only for a short period of time. Soon afterward, Bentley made his onscreen debut in Jonathan Demme’s Beloved. Bentley’s other film credits include, The Four Feathers, P2, Ghost Rider, Dolan’s Cadillac and There Be Dragons by director Roland Joffe.&nbsp;In 2010, Bentley made his professional stage debut with Nina Arianda in David Ives’s award-winning play Venus in Fur.Bentley was most recently seen in Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar and has recently wrapped the following independent features, Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups with Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale, Welcome To Me opposite Kristen Wiig and AMNESIAC with Kate Bosworth which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.Previously he portrayed “Edward Mordrake” on American Horror Story: Freak Show and returns to AHS as a series regular. He also co-stars opposite Zac Efron in We Are Your Friends and in the Disney film Pete’s Dragon.&nbsp;Bentley makes his home in Los Angeles with his son Charles, daughter Brooklyn and wife Jacqui Swedberg.

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Wes Bentley stars as Detective John Lowe in the fifth installment of American Horror Story: Hotel. 

Wes Bentley as Detective John Lowe in FX's AHS: Hotel

Wes Bentley as John Lowe | AHS: Hotel | FX

American Horror Story: Hotel

Wes Bentley

Career Highlights

Cheyenne Jackson
as Will Drake

Chloë Sevigny
as Dr. Alex Lowe

Lady Gaga
as The Countess

Wes Bentley as John Lowe | AHS: Hotel | FX

American Horror Story: Hotel

Wes Bentley

Cheyenne Jacksonas Will Drake

Chloë Sevignyas Dr. Alex Lowe

Lady Gagaas The Countess

Cheyenne Jackson
as Will Drake

Chloë Sevigny
as Dr. Alex Lowe

Lady Gaga
as The Countess