Gena Rowlands
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 19 June 1930 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Died
- 14 August 2024
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
Acting 84
- 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2019Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film as Self
- 2019Peter Falk versus Columbo as Self (archive footage)
- 2017Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
- 2017Unfortunate Circumstances as Dr. Cohen
- 2014Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Lily Harrison
- 2014Yellow as Mimi
- 2014Watching Gena Rowlands as Self (archive footage)
- 2014Parts Per Billion as Esther
- 2011Olive as Tess M Powell
- 2011Faces as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
- 2007Cannes: All Access as Self
- 2007Broken English as Vivien Wilder-Mann
- 2007What If God Were the Sun? as Melissa Eisenbloom
- 2006Paris Je T'aime as Gena (Quartier Latin)
- 2006Edge of Outside as Self
- 2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self
- 2005The Skeleton Key as Violet Devereaux
- 2004The Notebook as Older Allie
- 2004The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
- 2004Taking Lives as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
- 2004Making 'Faces' as Self
- 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2003NCIS as Joann Fielding · 1 episode
- 2002Charms for the Easy Life as Charlie Kate
- 2002Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
- 2002Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller
- 2001Wild Iris as Minnie Brinn
- 2000A Constant Forge as Self
- 2000Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- 2000The Color of Love: Jacey's Story as Georgia Porter
- 1999The Weekend as Laura Ponti
- 1998Playing by Heart as Hannah
- 1998Grace & Glorie as Grace Stiles
- 1998The Mighty as Gram
- 1998Hope Floats as Ramona Calvert
- 19981001 Nights as Narrator (voice)
- 1998Paulie as Ivy
- 1998Best Friends for Life as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
- 1997She's So Lovely as Miss Green
- 1997The View as Self · 1 episode
- 1996Unhook the Stars as Mildred
- 1996John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All as Self
- 1995The Neon Bible as Mae Morgan
- 1995Something to Talk About as Georgia King
- 1994Parallel Lives as Francie Pomerantz
- 1993Anything for John as Self
- 1993Silent Cries as Peggy Sutherland
- 1992Crazy in Love as Honora Swift
- 1991Face of a Stranger as Pat Foster
- 1991Night on Earth as Victoria Snelling
- 1991Ted & Venus as Mrs. Turner
- 1991Once Around as Marilyn Bella
- 1990Hollywood Mavericks as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Montana as Bess Guthrie
- 1988Another Woman as Marion
- 1987The Betty Ford Story as Betty Ford
- 1987Light of Day as Janette Rasnick
- 1985An Early Frost as Katherine Pierson
- 1985Nederland C as Self - Interviewed actress
- 1984I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work as Self
- 1984Love Streams as Sarah Lawson
- 1983Rapunzel as The Witch
- 1983Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden
- 1982Tempest as Antonia
- 1980Gloria as Gloria Swenson
- 1979Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Abigail Mason
- 1978The Brink's Job as Mary Pino
- 1978A Question of Love as Linda Ray Guettner
- 1977Opening Night as Myrtle Gordon
- 1976Two-Minute Warning as Janet
- 1974A Woman Under the Influence as Mabel Longhetti
- 1971Minnie and Moskowitz as Minnie Moore
- 1970Husbands as Party Guest
- 1969Machine Gun McCain as Rosemary Scott
- 1968Faces as Jeannie Rapp
- 1968Nick Quarry
- 1967Tony Rome as Rita Kosterman
- 1963A Child Is Waiting as Sophie Widdicombe
- 1962The Spiral Road as Els
- 1962Lonely are the Brave as Jerry Bondi
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self · 3 episodes
- 1960Shadows as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
- 1958The High Cost of Loving as Ginny Fry
Writing 1
- 2006Paris Je T'aime · writer
crew 1
- 1999All About My Mother · in memory of