
Gena Rowlands
Born June 19, 1930 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Notebook

The Skeleton Key

Taking Lives

Hope Floats

Paulie

A Woman Under the Influence

The Mighty

Paris Je T'aime

Something to Talk About

Night on Earth

She's So Lovely

Gloria

Another Woman

Lonely are the Brave

Faces

Playing by Heart

Machine Gun McCain

Opening Night

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Two-Minute Warning

Shadows

Heart of the Festival

Light Keeps Me Company

A Child Is Waiting

Hollywood Mavericks

Peter Falk versus Columbo

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Tempest

Tony Rome

The Brink's Job

Unhook the Stars

Husbands

Broken English

Hysterical Blindness

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
TV Shows

Columbo

The View

Bonanza

Golden Globe Awards

Numb3rs

Robert Montgomery Presents

The Virginian

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Studio One

Dr. Kildare

Burke's Law

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

The Ed Sullivan Show

Run for Your Life

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Medical Center

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Laramie

Faerie Tale Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Adventures in Paradise

77 Sunset Strip

Ghost Story

87th Precinct

The Islanders

Johnny Staccato

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Riverboat

Garrison's Gorillas

Target: The Corruptors!

The Lloyd Bridges Show

General Electric Theater

Hallmark Hall of Fame

E! True Hollywood Story

Peyton Place
More Movies

Minnie and Moskowitz

Love Streams

The Weekend

Light of Day

Crazy in Love

Montana

What If God Were the Sun?

Once Around

Charms for the Easy Life

Cannes: All Access

An Early Frost

Parts Per Billion

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

The High Cost of Loving

Anything for John

Ted & Venus

Face of a Stranger

The Spiral Road

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Wild Iris

A Question of Love

Yellow

The Betty Ford Story

Grace & Glorie

A Constant Forge

Edge of Outside

1001 Nights

The Neon Bible

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

Thursday's Child

Rapunzel

Parallel Lives

Silent Cries

Watching Gena Rowlands

Best Friends for Life

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

Unfortunate Circumstances

Faces

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Making 'Faces'

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