Background
Bowman was born in Walnut Creek, California.
Bowman was born in Walnut Creek, California.
Bowman began acting in community theater, and commercials, and appeared as Darcy on The Road Home. After guest appearances on Boy Meets World, New York City Police Department Blue and Baywatch, Bowman assumed the role of Colleen Cooper on the popular drama Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman in season 4/1995. She took over this role after the original portrayer, Erika Flores, did not renew her contract.
She was also nominated in 1997 and 1998.
After Doctor Quinn was cancelled in 1998, Bowman starred in Someone to Love Maine, playing a rape victim who struggles to prove her rapist"s guilt. Bowman appeared in two made for television movies, Young Hearts Unlimited and Lethal Vows, before reprising her role as Colleen for the movie Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within in 2001.
She appeared in the movies Joy Ride and Derailed, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.