Dorris Estelle Bowdon (December 27, 1914 – August 9, 2005) was an American actress, best known for her role as Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath.

When she was 20 years old, talent scout Ivan Kahn found her in Memphis, Tennessee, and brought her to Hollywood, California, for a screen test with 20th Century Fox.

[2] She was married to Nunnally Johnson from 1939 until his death in 1977, and they had three children together, the first of whom was born in 1942, which prematurely ended Bowden's acting career.

They resided in a mansion located at 625 Mountain Drive in Beverly Hills, California.

[citation needed][4] Bowdon died in Los Angeles at the age of 90 of a stroke and heart failure.