A handsome actress who got her start on Canadian television while still a teen, Rowan moved to Hollywood in 1990. Never at a loss for work, she starred in myriad TV-movies (the kind of fare that usually airs on Lifetime) and occasionally popped up on the big screen in small roles (
Assassins,
One Eight Seven). In the '00s the prolific blonde finally made her mark on
The O.C. as the Cohen clan's alcoholic matriarch.
Kelly Rowan Fast Facts:
- Studied acting at the British American Drama Academy in London and the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
- Worked as a fashion model in New York.
- Appeared on Dallas in 1991 and made her movie debut the same year in Steven Spielberg's Hook, playing Peter Pan's mother.
- Won a Gemini Award, the Canadian equivalent of an Emmy, for her performance as a mysterious shipwreck survivor in the 1993 TV-movie Adrift.
- Is executive producer as well as star of the 2006 Lifetime movie Eight Days to Live.
- Welcomed her first child, a daughter, on April 28.
- Kelly Rowan Relationships:
- David Thomson - Ex-fiancé
- College:
- Attended University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
