Actor Chad Lowe and his family are mourning the death of their 13-year-old daughter Fiona, calling her the light of their lives and asking for prayers and privacy.

Page Six reported that the family shared a statement on Tuesday describing a devastating loss for parents Chad Lowe and Kim Painter and for Fiona’s sisters.

Fiona was 13. She is survived by her parents, older sister Mabel, 17, and younger sister Nixie, 10. The family did not release a cause or place of death.

In the statement, they remembered a girl who loved to dance and who stood at the center of their home.

The family said:

"We are deeply heartbroken by the loss of our beloved Fiona. She was a loving young girl who was smart, creative and loved to dance,"

They continued that she was adored by her sisters and deeply loved by her parents, adding that her passing is devastating and that they ask for prayers and privacy at this time. Fox News carried the same remembrance, including their description of Fiona as the light of their lives.

School notifies parents and offers counselors

On Tuesday morning, the principal of the school Fiona attended emailed families about the death of a student. The note did not name her.

The principal wrote that it was with deep sadness that parents were being advised of the death, extended condolences to the student’s family, friends, and teachers, and said counselors were available for students and staff who needed support.

Sudden loss of a child leaves schools and homes searching for steady ground, a hard truth familiar whenever families face the worst news, including cases far from Hollywood such as a Frankfort mother charged in her toddler’s death.

The Lowe family also included a mental-health resource in their public statement, urging anyone struggling to contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by call or text.

A father of three daughters

Chad Lowe, 58, is known for roles in “Pretty Little Liars” and “Melrose Place.” He has been married to producer Kim Painter since August 2010. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. A prior marriage to Hilary Swank ended in January 2006 after eight years.

Breitbart noted that Fiona Hepler Lowe was the couple’s second daughter and that the family sought prayers and privacy after her death.

In November 2025, Lowe marked her birthday on Instagram with a photo of Fiona smiling in cowboy boots and wrote that he was celebrating her officially becoming a teen, telling “FiBear” to keep dancing through life and that he loved her.

Months earlier, in February 2025, he posted after the Palisades fire destroyed the family’s childhood home in Los Angeles. Photos showed the girls at the ruins, including one with all three sisters’ arms around each other. He said their handling of the experience was remarkable, that he was in awe of their spirit, and that helping them through it was his sole purpose, calling being their dad his life’s greatest joy and privilege.

Private grief still collides with a public appetite for every detail of famous families, much as coverage races ahead after other violent shocks, from a Twin Falls shooting spree to courtroom fights over motive and penalty.

In August 2024, on the “Still Here Hollywood” podcast, Lowe talked about raising three daughters and said fatherhood moved equality from an idea in his head into his heart. He said he had come to look at the world from their perspective.

None of those posts or interviews explained how Fiona died. Authorities’ statements on manner or location were not included in the reporting available here, and the family asked the public to give them room.

High-profile deaths often pull in speculation and online pile-ons, whether the story is a celebrity family’s loss or a political murder case like the accused Charlie Kirk assassin’s reported texts.

The Lowes answered with a short portrait of their daughter, a request for prayer, a plea for privacy, and a crisis line for anyone in pain. That is the record they put forward while they bury a 13-year-old.

Other tragedies keep testing whether institutions will treat life as disposable or sacred, from a Utah judge keeping the death penalty in play to campus probes after ugly rhetoric about who should die.

A child who loved to dance is gone. Her parents and sisters asked for prayers, not a media circus.

Family still matters more than the feed, and a home that calls a daughter the light of its life is telling the truth worth defending.