Date of Birth

4 December 1990, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Birth Name

Andrea Elizabeth Bowen

Height

5' 7" (1.7 m)

Mini Biography

Andrea Lauren Bowen began acting at age 6 as "Young Cosette" in the Broadway production of "Les Miserables". She went on to star in the original Broadway casts of "Jane Eyre" (Adele) and "The Sound of Music" (Marta). Other New York stage credits include the role of "Young Dorothy" in a Lincoln Center Workshop production called "WAS" and Alison in Disney's new production, "When You Wish", written and directed by Tina Landau. As a recording artist, she can be heard on Original Cast Recordings of "Jane Eyre" and "The Sound of Music", the concept CDs of "Night of the Hunter" and "Z the Masked Musical" and on recordings for "Sugar Beats" and "The Broadway Kids".

Trivia

• Has three older brothers: Graham Bowen, Alex Bowen and Cameron Bowen as well as two older sisters: Jessica Bowen and Jillian Bowen.
• Presenter at the 2007 Animation Awards.
• After a few years of being a blond, she dyed her hair back to the natural brown of her childhood upon landing the role of "Julie Mayer" (on Desperate Housewives (2004)) to match that of her TV-mom Teri Hatcher. She later reverted back to dying it blond. In Oct 2009, Ms Bowen went back to brunette but with a reddish hue this time.