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