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