Background
Rowland was born into a family of actors and artists.
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Jada Rowland
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She has appeared on Broadway and television, most notably in daytime soap operas. She has appeared as Doctor Susan Stewart on As the World Turns and Carolee Simpson Aldrich on The Doctors. She later appeared on the prime-time serial The Hamptons.
She was offered an audition for the Dustin Hoffman film Tootsie, since that feature film incorporated a fictional soap opera, Southwest General, but she rejected lieutenant
In her most notable role, she portrayed Amy Ames Britton Kincaid on The Secret Storm for most of its 20-year run. This character had the distinction of growing up in real time rather than by means of the often-used soap-opera phenomenon of "rapid aging", where a young actor is replaced by an older one to age the character more quickly.
In the early 1970s, the father of Rowland"s son Sparks was murdered. She decided to fulfill a lifelong desire to be a professional artist and writer
She quit acting. She has kept on drawing and painting and writing."
Published children"s books she has illustrated include: Bringing the Farmhouse Home (by Gloria Whelan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992).
Mission Tizzy (by Libba Moore Gray, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993). The Statue of Liberty (by Lucille Recht Penner, Random House, 1995). And Raising the Roof (by Ronald Kidd, Habitat for Humanity International, 1995).
She resides in Manhattan.
