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