Gena Rowlands
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-06-19
Day of Death
2024-08-14 (94 years old)
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
(2021)
(2019)
(2017)
(2017)
Unfortunate Circumstances
as Dr. Cohen
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Parts Per Billion
as Esther
(2014)
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
as Lily Harrison
(2014)
Watching Gena Rowlands
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Yellow
as Mimi
(2011)
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
(2011)
Olive
as Tess M Powell
(2007)
Broken English
as Vivien Wilder-Mann
(2007)
What If God Were the Sun?
as Melissa Eisenbloom
(2007)
Cannes: All Access
as Self
(2006)
Paris Je T'aime
as Gena (Quartier Latin)
(2006)
Edge of Outside
as Self
(2006)
(2005)
The Skeleton Key
as Violet Devereaux
(2004)
The Notebook
as Older Allie
(2004)
Taking Lives
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
(2004)
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
(2004)
Making 'Faces'
as Self
(2003)
(2002)
Hysterical Blindness
as Virginia Miller
(2002)
Charms for the Easy Life
as Charlie Kate
(2001)
Wild Iris
as Minnie Brinn
(2000)
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
(2000)
A Constant Forge
as Self
(2000)
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
as Georgia Porter
(1999)
The Weekend
as Laura Ponti
(1998)
Hope Floats
as Ramona Calvert
(1998)
Paulie
as Ivy
(1998)
Playing by Heart
as Hannah
(1998)
The Mighty
as Gram
(1998)
Grace & Glorie
as Grace Stiles
(1998)
1001 Nights
as Narrator (voice)
(1998)
Best Friends for Life
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
(1997)
She's So Lovely
as Miss Green
(1996)
Unhook the Stars
as Mildred
(1996)
(1995)
Something to Talk About
as Georgia King
(1995)
The Neon Bible
as Mae Morgan
(1994)
Parallel Lives
as Francie Pomerantz
(1993)
Silent Cries
as Peggy Sutherland
(1993)
Anything for John
as Self
(1992)
Crazy in Love
as Honora Swift
(1991)
Night on Earth
as Victoria Snelling
(1991)
Ted & Venus
as Mrs. Turner
(1991)
Once Around
as Marilyn Bella
(1991)
Face of a Stranger
as Pat Foster
(1990)
Montana
as Bess Guthrie
(1990)
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self (archive footage)
(1988)
Another Woman
as Marion
(1987)
Light of Day
as Janette Rasnick
(1987)
The Betty Ford Story
as Betty Ford
(1985)
An Early Frost
as Katherine Pierson
(1985)
Nederland C
as Self - Interviewed actress
(1984)
Love Streams
as Sarah Lawson
(1984)
(1983)
Rapunzel
as The Witch
(1983)
Thursday's Child
as Victoria Alden
(1982)
Tempest
as Antonia
(1980)
Gloria
as Gloria Swenson
(1979)
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
as Abigail Mason
(1978)
The Brink's Job
as Mary Pino
(1978)
A Question of Love
as Linda Ray Guettner
(1977)
Opening Night
as Myrtle Gordon
(1976)
Two-Minute Warning
as Janet
(1974)
A Woman Under the Influence
as Mabel Longhetti
(1971)
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Minnie Moore
(1970)
Husbands
as Party Guest
(1969)
Machine Gun McCain
as Rosemary Scott
(1968)
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp
(1968)
(1967)
Tony Rome
as Rita Kosterman
(1963)
A Child Is Waiting
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
(1962)
Lonely are the Brave
as Jerry Bondi
(1962)
The Spiral Road
as Els
(1960)
Shadows
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
(1958)
The High Cost of Loving
as Ginny Fry
Crew
(2006)
Paris Je T'aime
Writer