According to her biography, she was born in the year 1961 and in the city in Huntington in the New York. She was born as only daughter to the geologist called James David Lowell. Her mother is not well known. She grew up in different countries such as US, France, Netherlands and Libya. She is an American by nationality and her ethnicity is of North America. She is said to be an only child since there is no record about the siblings. When it comes to her education, she went to University of Colorado found in Boulder. She did literature there. She went to New York University and to Neighborhood Playhouse School of The Theater in Manhattan. While doing her studies, she also worked as a model for some brands such as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.

After starting a career in modeling, she also worked like a model. The first movie she appeared in was Dangerously Close and afterwards into Club Paradise. After the first success, she also got a chance of appearing in other movies such as Big Apple, Fierce Creatures, Leaving Las Vegas, Love Affairs, Sleepless in Seattle, Road to Ruin and The Guardian.

She was in the movie Licence to Kill 1989, a James Bond Movie. She appeared in the Law & Order and she did its 49 episodes. Other movies she appeared in are Six Degree, Homicide: Life on The Street and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. After sometime, she was not happy because of her acting skills and she decided to join New York University where she studied Documentary Filmmaking. In the mid 2000s, she decided to leave acting.

Carey Lowell had worked in the entertainment industry in 3 decades. She had been able to make enough money and she achieved a net worth of 6 million dollars.

When it comes to her personal life, Carey Lowell is in love relationship with Tom Freston, a former Viacom CEO. They had been together while attending events and parties. Before she was married to her first husband called John Stember, a fashion photographer. The second husband is Griffin Dunne who is an actor, since 1989 up to 1995. They had a daughter named Hannah Dunne together. She was also married to Richard Gere since 2002 but she asked for get a divorce in 2013. The divorce was finalized in the year 2016. They had a son together called Homer James Jigme Gere. After the divorce from Richard Gere, it was said that she got 120million as a settlement for their divorce case, but it was never confirmed to be true or not.