Jada Rowland (born February 23, 1943) is an American actress and illustrator.

Actress

Rowland was born into a family of actors and artists. She has appeared on

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and

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, most notably in daytime

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s. She has appeared as Dr. Susan Stewart on ''

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'' and Carolee Simpson Aldrich, R. N. #2 on '' The Doctors'' starting September 6, 1976, until the final episode on December 31, 1982. She later appeared on the prime-time serial ''

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.'' She was offered an audition for the

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film ''

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,'' since that feature film incorporated a fictional soap opera, ''Southwest General,'' but she rejected it. Rowland is the sister of actor Jeffrey Rowland and actress Gigi Anderson. Her brother played her husband on ''As the World Turns'' (Dr. Dan Stewart), although they appeared on the show in different years. Rowland's sister appeared on ''The Secret Storm'' as Peggy Bennett during the time Rowland was working on the show. In her most notable role, Rowland portrayed Amy Ames Britton Kincaid on ''

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'' 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 "

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", 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. Rowland's biography, on her webpage, says: "And finally, in 1983, tired of acting, never having been unemployed for more than three months at a time, and having the opportunity to join her astrophysicist husband on sabbatical in

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, she took a big gamble. 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."

Illustrator

Published

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she has illustrated include: ''Bringing the Farmhouse Home'' (by Gloria Whelan, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992); ''Miss 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).

Residence

She resides in

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External links

* *http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jada-Rowland/ *https://jadajada.info/jada.html *http://northforker.com/2014/09/27/artist-profile-jada-rowland-of-greenport/?ic_source=ic-featured-frontpage-top {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowland, Jada American soap opera actresses 1943 births Living people 21st-century American women