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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).

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4800

Known For

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Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-06-19

Place of Birth

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As

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Virginia Cathryn Rowlands

جنا رولندز

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Gena Rowlands

Known For

Night on Ear

Light of Day

Faces

Playing by H

Paris Je T'a

Gloria

The Notebook

Taking Lives

Another Woma

Two-Minute W

Minnie and M

The Brink's

Tony Rome

Hope Floats

Opening Nigh

The Mighty

Broken Engli

The Skeleton

Paulie

A Woman Unde

Lonely are t

Hysterical B

Machine Gun

Once Around

Unhook the S

The Neon Bib

Tempest

Something to

Wild Iris

Love Streams

Charms for t

1001 Nights

An Early Fro

Yellow

What If God

Broadway: Th

A Child Is W

Crazy in Lov

The Incredib

Silent Cries

Anything for

John Cassave

The Spiral R

The High Cos

The Weekend

The Color of

The Betty Fo

Strangers: T

Face of a St

Parts Per Bi

Edge of Outs

Olive

Stardust: Th

Six Dance Le

Parallel Liv

Nick Quarry

A Question o

Faces

Unfortunate

Thursday's C

I'm Almost N

Best Friends

Grace & Glor

Montana

Light Keeps

A Constant F

She's So Lov

Cannes: All

Hollywood Ma

Bette Davis:

Making 'Face

Watching Gen

Gena Rowland

And the Osca

Rapunzel

Shadows

Husbands

Ted & Venus

Broadway: Be

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Acting

Clear

2021

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

asSelf

2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

asSelf

2017

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

asSelf

2017

Unfortunate Circumstances

asDr. Cohen

2014

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

asLily Harrison

2014

Watching Gena Rowlands

asSelf (archive footage)

2014

Parts Per Billion

asEsther

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

asSelf (archive footage)

2012

Yellow

asMimi

2011

Olive

asTess M Powell

2011

Faces

asJeannie Rapp (archive footage)

2007

Broken English

asVivien Wilder-Mann

2007

Cannes: All Access

asSelf

2007

What If God Were the Sun?

asMelissa Eisenbloom

2006

Paris Je T'aime

asGena (Quartier Latin)

2006

Edge of Outside

asSelf

2006

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

asSelf

2005

The Skeleton Key

asViolet Devereaux

2004

The Notebook

asOlder Allie

2004

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

asMrs. Evelyn Ritchie

2004

Taking Lives

asMrs. Rebecca Asher

2004

Making 'Faces'

asSelf

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

asSelf

2002

Charms for the Easy Life

asCharlie Kate

2002

Hysterical Blindness

asVirginia Miller

2001

Wild Iris

asMinnie Brinn

2000

Light Keeps Me Company

asSelf

2000

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

asGeorgia Porter

2000

A Constant Forge

asSelf

1999

The Weekend

asLaura Ponti

1998

Playing by Heart

asHannah

1998

Grace & Glorie

asGrace Stiles

1998

The Mighty

asGram

1998

Hope Floats

asRamona Calvert

1998

1001 Nights

asNarrator (voice)

1998

Paulie

asIvy

1998

Best Friends for Life

asMrs. Harriet Cahill

1997

She's So Lovely

asMiss Green

1996

Unhook the Stars

asMildred

1996

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

asSelf

1995

The Neon Bible

asMae Morgan

1995

Something to Talk About

asGeorgia King

1994

Parallel Lives

asFrancie Pomerantz

1993

Anything for John

asSelf

1993

Silent Cries

asPeggy Sutherland

1992

Crazy in Love

asHonora Swift

1991

Face of a Stranger

asPat Foster

1991

Night on Earth

asVictoria Snelling

1991

Ted & Venus

asMrs. Turner

1991

Once Around

asMarilyn Bella

1990

Hollywood Mavericks

asSelf (archive footage)

1990

Montana

asBess Guthrie

1988

Another Woman

asMarion

1987

The Betty Ford Story

asBetty Ford

1987

Light of Day

asJanette Rasnick

1985

An Early Frost

asKatherine Pierson

1985

Nederland C

asSelf - Interviewed actress

1984

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

asSelf

1984

Love Streams

asSarah Lawson

1983

Rapunzel

asThe Witch

1983

Thursday's Child

asVictoria Alden

1982

Tempest

asAntonia

1980

Gloria

asGloria Swenson

1979

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

asAbigail Mason

1978

The Brink's Job

asMary Pino

1978

A Question of Love

asLinda Ray Guettner

1977

Opening Night

asMyrtle Gordon

1976

Two-Minute Warning

asJanet

1974

A Woman Under the Influence

asMabel Longhetti

1971

Minnie and Moskowitz

asMinnie Moore

1970

Husbands

asParty Guest

1969

Machine Gun McCain

asRosemary Scott

1968

Faces

asJeannie Rapp

1968

Nick Quarry

1967

Tony Rome

asRita Kosterman

1963

A Child Is Waiting

asSophie Widdicombe Benham

1962

The Spiral Road

asEls

1962

Lonely are the Brave

asJerry Bondi

1960

Shadows

asWoman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

1958

The High Cost of Loving

asGinny Fry

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