
Gena Rowlands
Born: 1930-06-19
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 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

The Notebook
2004★ 7.9

Hope Floats
1998★ 6.4

Grace & Glorie
1998★ 6.3

Machine Gun McCain
1969★ 6.0

The Skeleton Key
2005★ 6.6

Husbands
1970★ 6.7

Once Around
1991★ 6.0

Gloria
1980★ 6.9

Montana
1990★ 6.0

Love Streams
1984★ 7.2

Rapunzel
1983★ 5.4

Broken English
2007★ 5.9

The Neon Bible
1995★ 6.1

Hysterical Blindness
2002★ 6.0

Unfortunate Circumstances
2017★ 0.0

Paulie
1998★ 6.9

Taking Lives
2004★ 6.4

1001 Nights
1998★ 6.6

Shadows
1960★ 6.9

The Weekend
1999★ 1.3

Hollywood Mavericks
1990★ 6.0

Ted & Venus
1991★ 4.0

Yellow
2012★ 5.0

Night on Earth
1991★ 7.5

She's So Lovely
1997★ 5.9

What If God Were the Sun?
2007★ 7.0

A Woman Under the Influence
1974★ 7.8

Nick Quarry
1968★ 0.0

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006★ 6.7

Playing by Heart
1998★ 6.6

Paris Je T'aime
2006★ 6.8

Two-Minute Warning
1976★ 6.2

The Mighty
1998★ 7.2

An Early Frost
1985★ 5.7

Something to Talk About
1995★ 5.6

The Spiral Road
1962★ 5.2

Opening Night
1977★ 7.6

Crazy in Love
1992★ 4.1

Another Woman
1988★ 6.8

Lonely are the Brave
1962★ 7.4

Light of Day
1987★ 5.5

A Child Is Waiting
1963★ 6.8

A Question of Love
1978★ 4.8

Faces
1968★ 7.1

Thursday's Child
1983★ 1.0

Unhook the Stars
1996★ 5.9

The Brink's Job
1978★ 6.1

Best Friends for Life
1998★ 0.0

Tempest
1982★ 5.9

Faces
2011★ 0.0

Watching Gena Rowlands
2014★ 0.0

Tony Rome
1967★ 6.3

Minnie and Moskowitz
1971★ 6.6

Parts Per Billion
2014★ 4.4

Cannes: All Access
2007★ 3.8

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000★ 7.0

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
2004★ 7.2

Face of a Stranger
1991★ 10.0

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003★ 7.0

Wild Iris
2001★ 7.0

Parallel Lives
1994★ 5.0

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021★ 0.0

Silent Cries
1993★ 1.0

Light Keeps Me Company
2000★ 7.8

Charms for the Easy Life
2002★ 7.0

Anything for John
1993★ 6.0

A Constant Forge
2000★ 6.6

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979★ 9.2

The Betty Ford Story
1987★ 0.0

Edge of Outside
2006★ 5.8

Making 'Faces'
2004★ 0.0

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014★ 2.8

Olive
2011★ 6.5

The High Cost of Loving
1958★ 5.7

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017★ 6.0

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019★ 7.2

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984★ 8.4