Gena Rowlands

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-06-19 (94 years old)

Deathday

2024-08-14

Place of Birth

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Gena Rowlands

Biography

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).

Acting

1991

Night on Earth

as Victoria Snelling

1987

Light of Day

as Janette Rasnick

1968

Faces

as Jeannie Rapp

1998

2006

Paris Je T'aime

as Gena (Quartier Latin)

1980

Gloria

as Gloria Swenson

2004

The Notebook

as Older Allie

2004

Taking Lives

as Mrs. Rebecca Asher

1988

Another Woman

as Marion

1976

1971

Minnie and Moskowitz

as Minnie Moore

1978

The Brink's Job

as Mary Pino

1967

Tony Rome

as Rita Kosterman

1998

Hope Floats

as Ramona Calvert

1977

Opening Night

as Myrtle Gordon

1998

The Mighty

as Gram

2007

Broken English

as Vivien Wilder-Mann

2005

The Skeleton Key

as Violet Devereaux

1998

Paulie

as Ivy

1974

A Woman Under the Influence

as Mabel Longhetti

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Jerry Bondi

2002

Hysterical Blindness

as Virginia Miller

1969

Machine Gun McCain

as Rosemary Scott

1991

Once Around

as Marilyn Bella

1996

1995

The Neon Bible

as Mae Morgan

1982

Tempest

as Antonia

1995

2001

Wild Iris

as Minnie Brinn

1984

Love Streams

as Sarah Lawson

2002

1998

1001 Nights

as Narrator (voice)

1985

An Early Frost

as Katherine Pierson

2012

Yellow

as Mimi

2007

What If God Were the Sun?

as Melissa Eisenbloom

1963

A Child Is Waiting

as Sophie Widdicombe Benham

1992

Crazy in Love

as Honora Swift

2004

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

1993

Silent Cries

as Peggy Sutherland

1962

1958

1999

The Weekend

as Laura Ponti

1987

1991

Face of a Stranger

as Pat Foster

2014

2006

2011

Olive

as Tess M Powell

2014

1994

Parallel Lives

as Francie Pomerantz

1978

A Question of Love

as Linda Ray Guettner

2011

Faces

as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

1985

Nederland C

as Self - Interviewed actress

1983

Thursday's Child

as Victoria Alden

1998

Best Friends for Life

as Mrs. Harriet Cahill

1998

Grace & Glorie

as Grace Stiles

1990

Montana

as Bess Guthrie

2000

1997

She's So Lovely

as Miss Green

1990

Hollywood Mavericks

as Self (archive footage)

2004

2014

Watching Gena Rowlands

as Self (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

1983

Rapunzel

as The Witch

1960

Shadows

as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

1970

Husbands

as Party Guest

1991

Ted & Venus

as Mrs. Turner

Production

2006

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