Early life and education

Bowen was born in Australia on 12 May 1984. Her parents Tony and Kathleen worked for Qantas and she spent time overseas as a child, including a stint with her family in Zimbabwe. Bowen is a cancer survivor, having had the disease between the ages of four and seven. She lived in Stanwell Park on the South Coast of New South Wales and attended primary school in Dulwich Hill, a suburb of Sydney. Bowen has a younger brother who is a musician.

Bowen attended the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, where she received a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree in 2006.

Career

Bowen appeared as the female lead in the Australian drama film The Combination in 2009 and has guest starred in The Cut, Gangs of Oz, Chandon Pictures and Home and Away. In 2010, Bowen was cast in the leading role of Wendla Bergman, in the Australian production of Spring Awakening, directed by Geordie Brookman, artistically overseen by Cate Blanchett at the Sydney Theatre Company. In 2011, she was cast to play the lead role of Martha in Jared Moshe's directorial debut, Dead Man's Burden.

In 2012, Bowen landed a series regular role on the ABC drama series Nashville written by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri. The series was picked up by ABC on 11 May 2012.

On 21 January 2014, the Zac Brown Band - featuring Bowen - released a live version of their No. 1 hit from 2010, "Free", with a transition into the famous Van Morrison song "Into the Mystic".

Bowen is also preparing her first solo album, scheduled for 2015, about which she spoke in an interview with Rolling Stone: "We've recorded a couple things and I've been writing and writing and writing."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	The Combination	Sydney
2010	The Clearing	Evelyn	Short film
	The Talk	Woman
	The Invitation	Candice	Short film
	The Clinic	Ivy
	10 Days to Die	Maddy McCarthy
2011	A Burning Thing	Jen	Short film
	Cupid	Casey	Short film
2012	Suspended	Carla	Short film
	Dead Man's Burden	Martha Kirkland
	Not Suitable for Children	Gypsy
	The Red Valentine	The Woman	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	The Cut	Donna Gilbertson	episode: A Little Bit of Biff
	Chandon Pictures	Krystal	episode: The Lifestyle
	All Saints	Holly Russell	episode: A Precious Waste
	Gangs of Oz	Svetlana	episode: In from the Cold
2010	Home and Away	Nina Bailey	4 episodes
2012-2016	Nashville	Scarlett O'Connor	Main Cast; 84 episodes

Stage

• Candide (2003)
• Our Town as Mrs. Webb (2004)
• The Good Doctor as The Mistress (2005)
• Metamorphoses as Alcyone and Pomona (2006)
• Peer Gynt as Peer Gynt (2006)
• 4 Plays About Wollongong (2009)
• Hat's Off/Spring Awakening as Wendla Bergman (2010)

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US Country	US Soundtracks
The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 1	Released: 11 December 2012 Label: Big Machine Records Format: CD, digital download	14	3	1
The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 2	Released: 7 May 2013 Label: Big Machine Records Format: CD, digital download	13	5	2

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		US Country	US
2012	"If I Didn't Know Better" A	27	102	The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 1
	"Fade into You"	25	92	The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 2
	"I Will Fall"	45	—
2013	"Change Your Mind"	35	—	The Music of Nashville, Season 1: The Complete Collection
	"Casino"	48	—
	"This Town"	41	—	The Music of Nashville: Season 2, Volume 1
2014	"Lately"	42	—	N/A
	"Black Roses"A	29	116
2015	"I Will Never Let You Know"	39	—
	"Wake Up When It's Over"	49	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

• ADid not enter the Hot 100 but charted on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles.

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