Kelly Rowan

Kelly Rowan, born October 26, 1965 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is an actress. She guest stars as Marian McNorris in the first season of Boomtown. She has also starred in The O.C. as Kirsten Cohen.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Rowan was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and is a graduate of Toronto's Northern Secondary School. At the age of 19, she left the University of Western Ontario and then attained her degree in English Literature to join the cast of the Canadian series Mount Royal. Rowan went on to further her education, studying acting at the British American Drama Academy in London and, upon returning to North America, relocating to New York to study at the city’s famed Neighborhood Playhouse.
===Career===
===Earlier career===
Rowan attended playwriting courses at UCLA, and has written her own play. She began modeling in her college years to earn money and started acting in commercials. She went on to appear in films such as The Gate (1987), Hook (1991), Three to Tango (1997), and One Eight Seven (1999).
Rowan guest-starred in television shows such as The Outer Limits, Growing Pains, Da Vinci's Inquest, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Dallas. In 1993 She won a Gemini award for her work in the TV-movie Adrift.
====Boomtown====
She had a recurring guest starring role as Marian McNorris in the first season of Boomtown. Her character is the wife of main character David McNorris. She debuted in the "Pilot".
===Later career====
In 2003 she was cast as Kirsten Cohen on the Fox television series, The O.C.; for her role as the recovering alcoholic mother, she won a Prism Award.
Rowan has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program. She has also starred in her The O.C. co-star Peter Gallagher's music video, Still I Long For Your Kiss, a song from his album 7 Days in Memphis, which was released in 2005. 
She also appeared in the television movie In God's Country and in the film Jack and Jill vs. the World. She completed her third project for Lifetime, producing a TV movie, She Drives Me Crazy. In 2008 she completed a TV film, The Good Times Are Killing Me which she was an executive producer for and starred in alongside Rupert Graves.
In early 2009, Kelly did a cameo role in one episode ("Divorce Party") of CSI: Miami. In 2011, Emily Osment, Kelly Rowan and Kay Panabaker starred in an original two hour movie Cyberbully. In summer 2012, TNT debuted Perception, a drama series with Eric Mccormack, and Kelly will play Natalie Vincent.
===Personal life===
Rowan gave birth to a daughter in 2008.
==Credits==
===Starring===
==References==
==External links==
*Kelly Rowan at IMDb
*Kelly Rowan at Wikipedia
Category:Recurring cast