Katrina Bowden
Katrina Bowden is an American actress. After a two-episode arc on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, she received mainstream recognition for her recurring, later main, role as Cerie on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. As part of the ensemble cast, Bowden won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2009.
Following her breakout on 30 Rock, Bowden starred in the horror film The Shortcut and had a supporting role in the comedy film Sex Drive. In the 2010s, she starred in the films Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Piranha 3DD, Scary Movie 5, Nurse 3D, and Monolith, as well as supporting roles in the comedy films American Reunion and Movie 43. Bowden had a main role as Fortune on the TNT television series Public Morals.
In the late 2010s, Bowden began starring as Florence "Flo" Fulton on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. In the 2020s, she starred in the films Great White, Born a Champion, Senior Moment, and The Unholy Trinity.
Early life
Bowden was raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey.Career
In 2006, Bowden landed her first acting role in a two-episode arc on ABC's daytime soap opera One Life to Live as Britney. She has since guest-starred on shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Ugly Betty. Bowden's breakthrough role came when she was cast as a recurring character on the Emmy Award-winning television series 30 Rock, which premiered on October 11, 2006, on NBC. She portrayed the attractive receptionist Cerie, and with the cast received seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and one win. She signed on as a regular for the show's second season in 2007, and appeared in the series through to its series finale in January 2013.She appears in the music videos "Dance, Dance" by Fall Out Boy, as well as "After Hours" by We Are Scientists, and "Miss Jackson" by Panic! at the Disco.
In 2008, Bowden made her film debut in the Summit Entertainment comedy film Sex Drive, released to theatres on October 17, 2008. The following year, Bowden starred in two low-budget straight-to-DVD projects The Shortcut and Ratko: The Dictator's Son. In 2010 Bowden starred in the widely acclaimed horror-comedy film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil as Allison.
In April 2011, Bowden was voted as Esquire Magazines Sexiest Woman Alive. She was also the face of the Jordache television campaign that made its premiere in September 2011. In 2012, Bowden was cast as Mia in American Reunion. Also in 2012, Bowden appeared in the horror films Piranha 3DD and Hold Your Breath and Nurse 3D in 2013. In 2018, she played the lead role in the Hallmark Channel movie Love on the Slopes. In 2021, she starred in Great White, an Australian survivor horror film.