Gena Rowlands

Known for: Acting
Born: June 19, 1930, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Died: August 14, 2024
Movies: 82

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).

Best-Known Movies

7.9

The Notebook

2004

6.6

The Skeleton Key

2005

6.4

Taking Lives

2004

7.5

Night on Earth

1991

6.8

Paris Je T'aime

2006

7.7

A Woman Under the Influence

1974

7.1

Paulie

1998

6.5

Hope Floats

1998

7.2

The Mighty

1998

6.8

Another Woman

1988

Filmography

2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self
2019	Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film	Self
2019	Peter Falk versus Columbo	Self (archive footage)
2017	Bette Davis: Larger Than Life	Self
2017	Unfortunate Circumstances	Dr. Cohen
2014	Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks	Lily Harrison
2014	Yellow	Mimi
2014	Watching Gena Rowlands	Self (archive footage)
2014	Parts Per Billion	Esther
2011	Olive	Tess M Powell
2011	Faces	Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
2007	Cannes: All Access	Self
2007	Broken English	Vivien Wilder-Mann
2007	What If God Were the Sun?	Melissa Eisenbloom
2006	Paris Je T'aime	Gena (Quartier Latin)
2006	Edge of Outside	Self
2006	Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	Self
2005	The Skeleton Key	Violet Devereaux
2004	The Notebook	Older Allie
2004	The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie	Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2004	Taking Lives	Mrs. Rebecca Asher
2004	Making 'Faces'	Self
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self
2002	Charms for the Easy Life	Charlie Kate
2002	Heart of the Festival	Self (archive footage)
2002	Hysterical Blindness	Virginia Miller
2001	Wild Iris	Minnie Brinn
2000	A Constant Forge	Self
2000	Light Keeps Me Company	Self
2000	The Color of Love: Jacey's Story	Georgia Porter
1999	The Weekend	Laura Ponti
1998	Playing by Heart	Hannah
1998	Grace & Glorie	Grace Stiles
1998	The Mighty	Gram
1998	Hope Floats	Ramona Calvert
1998	1001 Nights	Narrator (voice)
1998	Paulie	Ivy
1998	Best Friends for Life	Mrs. Harriet Cahill
1997	She's So Lovely	Miss Green
1996	Unhook the Stars	Mildred
1996	John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All	Self
1995	The Neon Bible	Mae Morgan
1995	Something to Talk About	Georgia King
1994	Parallel Lives	Francie Pomerantz
1993	Anything for John	Self
1993	Silent Cries	Peggy Sutherland
1992	Crazy in Love	Honora Swift
1991	Face of a Stranger	Pat Foster
1991	Night on Earth	Victoria Snelling
1991	Ted & Venus	Mrs. Turner
1991	Once Around	Marilyn Bella
1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Self (archive footage)
1990	Montana	Bess Guthrie
1988	Another Woman	Marion
1987	The Betty Ford Story	Betty Ford
1987	Light of Day	Janette Rasnick
1985	An Early Frost	Katherine Pierson
1985	Nederland C	Self - Interviewed actress
1984	I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work	Self
1984	Love Streams	Sarah Lawson
1983	Rapunzel	The Witch
1983	Thursday's Child	Victoria Alden
1982	Tempest	Antonia
1980	Gloria	Gloria Swenson
1979	Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter	Abigail Mason
1978	The Brink's Job	Mary Pino
1978	A Question of Love	Linda Ray Guettner
1977	Opening Night	Myrtle Gordon
1976	Two-Minute Warning	Janet
1974	A Woman Under the Influence	Mabel Longhetti
1971	Minnie and Moskowitz	Minnie Moore
1970	Husbands	Party Guest
1969	Machine Gun McCain	Rosemary Scott
1968	Faces	Jeannie Rapp
1968	Nick Quarry
1967	Tony Rome	Rita Kosterman
1963	A Child Is Waiting	Sophie Widdicombe
1962	The Spiral Road	Els
1962	Lonely are the Brave	Jerry Bondi
1960	Shadows	Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
1958	The High Cost of Loving	Ginny Fry

Directing, Writing & Producing

2006

Paris Je T'aime

Writer

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