Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 19, 1930
Died
Aug 14, 2024
Place of Birth
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Credits
122 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Self
Peter Falk versus Columbo
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Self
Unfortunate Circumstances
Dr. Cohen
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Lily Harrison
Yellow
Mimi
Watching Gena Rowlands
Self (archive footage)
Parts Per Billion
Esther
Olive
Tess M Powell
Faces
Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
Cannes: All Access
Self
Broken English
Vivien Wilder-Mann
What If God Were the Sun?
Melissa Eisenbloom
Paris Je T'aime
Gena (Quartier Latin)
Edge of Outside
Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self
The Skeleton Key
Violet Devereaux
Numb3rs
Erika Hellman
The Notebook
Older Allie
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
Taking Lives
Mrs. Rebecca Asher
Making 'Faces'
Self
NCIS
Joann Fielding
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Charms for the Easy Life
Charlie Kate
Monk
Marge Johnson
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Hysterical Blindness
Virginia Miller
Wild Iris
Minnie Brinn
A Constant Forge
Self
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Georgia Porter
The Weekend
Laura Ponti
All About My Mother
In Memory Of
Playing by Heart
Hannah
Grace & Glorie
Grace Stiles
The Mighty
Gram
Hope Floats
Ramona Calvert
1001 Nights
Narrator (voice)
Paulie
Ivy
Best Friends for Life
Mrs. Harriet Cahill
She's So Lovely
Miss Green
The View
Self
Unhook the Stars
Mildred
E! True Hollywood Story
Self
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
Self
The Neon Bible
Mae Morgan
Something to Talk About
Georgia King
Parallel Lives
Francie Pomerantz