Gena Rowlands
Acting
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
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
2019Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Self
2019Peter Falk versus Columbo
Self (archive footage)
2017Unfortunate Circumstances
Dr. Cohen
2017Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Self
2014Parts Per Billion
Esther
2014Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Lily Harrison
2014Watching Gena Rowlands
Self (archive footage)
2012Yellow
Mimi
2011Olive
Tess M Powell
2011Faces
Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
2007Broken English
Vivien Wilder-Mann
2007What If God Were the Sun?
Melissa Eisenbloom
2007Cannes: All Access
Self
2006Paris Je T'aime
Gena (Quartier Latin)
2006Edge of Outside
Self
2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self
2005The Skeleton Key
Violet Devereaux
2004The Notebook
Older Allie
2004Taking Lives
Mrs. Rebecca Asher
2004The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2004Making 'Faces'
Self
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2002Hysterical Blindness
Virginia Miller