Clare Maree Bowen (born May 12, 1984) is an Australian actress and singer, best known for her role as Scarlett O'Connor in the ABC musical-drama television series Nashville. Bowen attended the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, where she received a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree in 2006. In 2011, she was cast to play the lead role of Martha in Jared Moshe's directorial debut, Dead Man's Burden. On 21 January 2014, the Zac Brown Band – featuring Bowen – released a live version of their No. 1 hit from 2010, "Free", with a transition into the famous Van Morrison song "Into the Mystic"
Bowen is also preparing her first solo album, scheduled for 2015, about which she spoke in an interview with Rolling Stone: "We've recorded a couple things and I've been writing and writing and writing."