Cathy Rowland Bio
Cathy Rowland is an American glamour model, and musician. She was born on March 11, 1950, in Los Angeles, California. Playboy named her its August 1971 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Rowland has natural breasts, gray eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Rowland’s August centerfold carried the polish of a commercial studio shoot and the easy smile of a performer who knew how to cue a camera. Photographed by Mario Casilli, the layout married a sunlit, Hollywood-ready gloss with a casual, approachable charm—an image that read as much like a record-cover portrait as a magazine spread.
Her pathway into that frame was never strictly linear. Born into a working family—her father served as a fireman—Rowland spent a year at Los Angeles Valley Junior College and at one point considered training as a dental assistant. Music, however, proved the stronger pull, and her biography is threaded with that creative current rather than the vocational plan she first entertained.
That creative streak included a brief turn on the Bunny side of Playboy’s operations: she worked at the Playboy Resort in Jamaica, a spell that added an international chapter to a career already crossing entertainment registers. Family life later intersected with the magazine again when her daughter, Kimberly Rowland, appeared in Playboy’s 2008 “Playmate Daughters” pictorial, a small archival echo linking two generations.
The later chapters shifted Rowland away from front-of-camera work toward the mechanics of sound and music. With her husband she operates a Los Angeles recording studio; according to The Playmate Book the couple’s work includes foley for movies and television, a trade that places them behind the curtain of storytelling rather than in its frame. It is a tidy, practical coda: the same instincts that read as camera-ready in a centerfold found new purchase in the meticulous craft of recorded sound.
