She is known for playing the role of Kate Rescott Slavinsky on the ABC daytime soap opera Loving (1984 to 1995).
She has appeared on Broadway in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), Walking Happy (1966), Richard III (1979), The Survivor (1981), and The Young Man from Atlanta (1997).
[6] Rowand's other stage credits include The Marriage of Figaro, Ladies in Waiting, Orlando, The Rainmaker, Hansel and Gretel, The Iceman Cometh, The Price, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Bells Are Ringing, Blithe Spirit, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dance of Death, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Guys and Dolls.
[10] Rowand returned to Broadway in 1979, as a "stand by" for the roles of Elizabeth and The Duchess of York in a revival of Richard III, starring Al Pacino.
Rowand played Sevek's Mother in the original Broadway production of The Survivor, opening at the Morosco Theatre on March 3, 1981.
[4] The character was a widow and the matriarch of a large family, including daughter Ava Rescott (Lisa Peluso).
[7] In 1997, she returned to Broadway in The Young Man from Atlanta, as an understudy for the roles of Lily Dale Kidder and Miss Lacey.
[19] In 2015, Rowand appeared as Elizabeth, an elderly mother with memory loss who has to contend with her fighting caretaker children, in Kate Hawley's play Complications from a Fall, which ran at Center Stage Theater in Santa Cruz, California.
[20] In the 1980s, Rowand opened three stores, called Sonrisa, which sold works by contemporary Mexican artists and craftsmen.