The invention relates to the field of bioengineering and biotechnologies, and discloses a method for producing 2-phenylethanol under biological catalysis. The method comprises the following steps: adding wet cells of E.coli/Pdh, E.coli/Kdc and E.coli/ADH undergoing induced expression into a biological catalysis system taking L-phenylalanine as a substrate for performing a catalytic reaction; centrifuging after finishing the reaction; extracting supernatant to obtain the 2-phenylethanol. In the method, the L-phenylalanine is taken as the substrate, and recombinant escherichia coli transformed with a phenylalanine dehydrogenase gene, a 2-keto acid decarboxylase gene and an alcohol dehydrogenase gene is added into a reaction system for performing a biological deamination, decarboxylation and reduction three-step catalytic reaction in order to generate a product, namely, phenylethanol; a coenzyme, namely, NAD (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) is added once and can be recycled, excess ketonic acid and hydrogen sources do not need to be added, no unnecessary side products are generated, a high substrate transforming rate is achieved, and the yield of the phenylethanol is increased remarkably.