Kelly Rowan

Kelly Rowan
Rowan at The Canadian Film Centre's cocktail reception on March 9, 2011, in Beverly Hills, California
Born	(1965-10-26) October 26, 1965 (age 51) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1984–present
Children	1

Kelly Rowan (born October 26, 1965) is a Canadian film and television actress and former fashion model. She is best known for portraying Kirsten Cohen in the US television series The O.C.

Rowan was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and is a graduate of Toronto's Northern Secondary School. She left the University of Western Ontario to pursue acting. Rowan has studied acting at the British American Drama Academy in England and in New York at the city’s famed Neighborhood Playhouse.

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, Hook, Three to Tango and One Eight Seven.

Rowan guest-starred in television series 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 television movie Adrift. In 1995-1996 she played Matty Shaw in the TV series 'Lonesome Dove, the Outlaw Years' as a funeral parlor and gun smith person. In 2002, Rowan guest-starred in four episodes of Boomtown, playing "Marian", the deceived wife of David McNorris (Neal McDonough). 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