Catherine Caylee Cowan is an American model and actress born on March 19, 1998 in Los Angeles, California. She is of Russian-Jewish descent on her father's side, and Spanish, English, and German on her mother's. Growing up, she attended multiple charter and public schools in Phoenix, Arizona only to graduate early and attend acting class at the Arizona Actors Academy. It was there that Caylee worked on various theatre performances such as; Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Danny in the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley, and Miss Julie by August Strindberg. She then moved to Hollywood, California at 18 years old, by herself, to pursue acting as a career.

Less than a year later, in February of 2018, she found representation with Atlas Artists and the Agency of the Performing Arts (APA). In June of 2018, Caylee Cowan made her film debut as Jan Hurst in His Sunrise My Sunset (2018).