Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

19/06/1930

Day of Death

14/08/2024
(94) years old

Place of Birth

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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 Glori... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2014

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

as Lily Harrison

2014

Watching Gena Rowlands

as Self (archive footage)

2014

Parts Per Billion

as Esther

2012

Yellow

as Mimi

2011

Olive

as Tess M Powell

2011

Faces

as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

2007

Broken English

as Vivien Wilder-Mann

2007

What If God Were the Sun?

as Melissa Eisenbloom

2006

Paris Je T'aime

as Gena (Quartier Latin)

2006

Edge of Outside

as Self

2005

The Skeleton Key

as Violet Devereaux

2004

The Notebook

as Older Allie

2004

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

2004

Taking Lives

as Mrs. Rebecca Asher

2004

Making 'Faces'

as Self

2002

Charms for the Easy Life

as Charlie Kate

2002

Heart of the Festival

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Hysterical Blindness

as Virginia Miller

2001

Wild Iris

as Minnie Brinn

2000

A Constant Forge

as Self

1999

The Weekend

as Laura Ponti

1998

Playing by Heart

as Hannah

1998

Grace & Glorie

as Grace Stiles

1998

The Mighty

as Gram

1998

Hope Floats

as Ramona Calvert

1998

1001 Nights

as Narrator (voice)

1998

Paulie

as Ivy

1998

Best Friends for Life

as Mrs. Harriet Cahill

1997

She's So Lovely

as Miss Green

1996

Unhook the Stars

as Mildred

1995

The Neon Bible

as Mae Morgan

1995

Something to Talk About

as Georgia King

1994

Parallel Lives

as Francie Pomerantz

1993

Silent Cries

as Peggy Sutherland

1992

Crazy in Love

as Honora Swift

1991

Face of a Stranger

as Pat Foster

1991

Night on Earth

as Victoria Snelling

1991

Ted & Venus

as Mrs. Turner

1991

Once Around

as Marilyn Bella

1990

Hollywood Mavericks

as Self (archive footage)

1990

Montana

as Bess Guthrie

1988

Another Woman

as Marion

1987

The Betty Ford Story

as Betty Ford

1987

Light of Day

as Janette Rasnick

1985

An Early Frost

as Katherine Pierson

1985

Nederland C

as Self - Interviewed actress

1984

Love Streams

as Sarah Lawson

1983

Rapunzel

as The Witch

1983

Thursday's Child

as Victoria Alden

1982

Tempest

as Antonia

1980

Gloria

as Gloria Swenson

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

1967

Tony Rome

as Rita Kosterman

1963

A Child Is Waiting

as Sophie Widdicombe Benham

1962

The Spiral Road

as Els

1962

Lonely are the Brave

as Jerry Bondi

1960

Shadows

as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

1958

The High Cost of Loving

as Ginny Fry

Crew

2006

Paris Je T'aime

as Writer