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