Gena Rowlands
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Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977).
Known for
Credits
The Notebook (2004)
as Older Allie
The Skeleton Key (2005)
as Violet Devereaux
Taking Lives (2004)
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
Hope Floats (1998)
as Ramona Calvert
Paulie (1998)
as Ivy
Something to Talk About (1995)
as Georgia King
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
as Mabel Longhetti
Night on Earth (1991)
as Victoria Snelling
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
as Gena (Quartier Latin)
Playing by Heart (1998)
as Hannah
Another Woman (1988)
as Marion
The Weekend (1999)
as Laura Ponti
Heart of the Festival (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
as Rosemary Scott
Lonely are the Brave (1962)
as Jerry Bondi
The Mighty (1998)
as Gram
Love Streams (1984)
as Sarah Lawson
She's So Lovely (1997)
as Miss Green
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film (2019)
as Self
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Gloria (1980)
as Gloria Swenson
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
as Virginia Miller
The Spiral Road (1962)
as Els
Crazy in Love (1992)
as Honora Swift
Yellow (2014)
as Mimi
Parts Per Billion (2014)
as Esther
Opening Night (1977)
as Myrtle Gordon
Unhook the Stars (1996)
as Mildred
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
as Janet
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2004)
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
A Constant Forge (2000)
as Self
Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
as Self
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
Cannes: All Access (2007)
as Self
Anything for John (1993)
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
as Self
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
as Minnie Moore
Husbands (1970)
as Party Guest
Edge of Outside (2006)
as Self
An Early Frost (1985)
as Katherine Pierson
What If God Were the Sun? (2007)
as Melissa Eisenbloom
Peter Falk versus Columbo (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Tempest (1982)
as Antonia
Tony Rome (1967)
as Rita Kosterman
The Brink's Job (1978)
as Mary Pino
Ted & Venus (1991)
as Mrs. Turner
Shadows (1960)
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
Broken English (2007)
as Vivien Wilder-Mann
Light of Day (1987)
as Janette Rasnick
Faces (1968)
as Jeannie Rapp
Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
as Charlie Kate
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self
The Betty Ford Story (1987)
as Betty Ford
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006)
as Self
Once Around (1991)
as Marilyn Bella
Grace & Glorie (1998)
as Grace Stiles
Parallel Lives (1994)
as Francie Pomerantz
The High Cost of Loving (1958)
as Ginny Fry
Best Friends for Life (1998)
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
Silent Cries (1993)
as Peggy Sutherland
Wild Iris (2001)
as Minnie Brinn
Thursday's Child (1983)
as Victoria Alden
1001 Nights (1998)
as Narrator (voice)
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work (1984)
as Self
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story (2000)
as Georgia Porter
Montana (1990)
as Bess Guthrie
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)
as Abigail Mason
The Neon Bible (1995)
as Mae Morgan
Face of a Stranger (1991)
as Pat Foster
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (2017)
as Self
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)
as Self
Rapunzel (1983)
as The Witch
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014)
as Lily Harrison
A Question of Love (1978)
as Linda Ray Guettner
Faces (2011)
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
Olive (2011)
as Tess M Powell
Nick Quarry (1968)
Actor
Watching Gena Rowlands (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Making 'Faces' (2004)
as Self
Unfortunate Circumstances (2017)
as Dr. Cohen
Nederland C (1985)
as Self - Interviewed actress