Gena Rowlands

Acting

Born: 1930-06-19 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Died: 2024-08-14

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).

Acting

Night on Earth

Victoria Snelling

Light of Day

Janette Rasnick

Faces

Jeannie Rapp

Playing by Heart

Hannah

Paris Je T'aime

Gena (Quartier Latin)

Gloria

Gloria Swenson

The Notebook

Older Allie

Taking Lives

Mrs. Rebecca Asher

Another Woman

Marion

Two-Minute Warning

Janet

Minnie and Moskowitz

Minnie Moore

The Brink's Job

Mary Pino

Tony Rome

Rita Kosterman

Hope Floats

Ramona Calvert

Opening Night

Myrtle Gordon

The Mighty

Gram

Broken English

Vivien Wilder-Mann

The Skeleton Key

Violet Devereaux

Paulie

Ivy

A Woman Under the Influence

Mabel Longhetti

Lonely are the Brave

Jerry Bondi

Hysterical Blindness

Virginia Miller

Machine Gun McCain

Rosemary Scott

Once Around

Marilyn Bella

Unhook the Stars

Mildred

The Neon Bible

Mae Morgan

Tempest

Antonia

Something to Talk About

Georgia King

Wild Iris

Minnie Brinn

Love Streams

Sarah Lawson

Charms for the Easy Life

Charlie Kate

1001 Nights

Narrator (voice)

An Early Frost

Katherine Pierson

Yellow

Mimi

What If God Were the Sun?

Melissa Eisenbloom

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

Self

A Child Is Waiting

Sophie Widdicombe Benham

Crazy in Love

Honora Swift

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

Silent Cries

Peggy Sutherland

Anything for John

Self

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

Self

The Spiral Road

Els

The High Cost of Loving

Ginny Fry

The Weekend

Laura Ponti

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

Georgia Porter

The Betty Ford Story

Betty Ford

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Abigail Mason

Face of a Stranger

Pat Foster

Parts Per Billion

Esther

Edge of Outside

Self

Olive

Tess M Powell

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Self

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Lily Harrison

Parallel Lives

Francie Pomerantz

Nick Quarry

A Question of Love

Linda Ray Guettner

Faces

Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

Unfortunate Circumstances

Dr. Cohen

Nederland C

Self - Interviewed actress

Thursday's Child

Victoria Alden

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

Self

Best Friends for Life

Mrs. Harriet Cahill

Grace & Glorie

Grace Stiles

Montana

Bess Guthrie

Light Keeps Me Company

Self

A Constant Forge

Self

She's So Lovely

Miss Green

Cannes: All Access

Self

Hollywood Mavericks

Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Self

Making 'Faces'

Self

Watching Gena Rowlands

Self (archive footage)

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Self

Rapunzel

The Witch

Shadows

Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

Husbands

Party Guest

Ted & Venus

Mrs. Turner

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Self

Heart of the Festival

Self (archive footage)

Night on Earth

Victoria Snelling

Light of Day

Janette Rasnick

Faces

Jeannie Rapp

Playing by Heart

Hannah

Paris Je T'aime

Gena (Quartier Latin)

Gloria

Gloria Swenson

The Notebook

Older Allie

Taking Lives

Mrs. Rebecca Asher

Another Woman

Marion

Two-Minute Warning

Janet

Minnie and Moskowitz

Minnie Moore

The Brink's Job

Mary Pino

Tony Rome

Rita Kosterman

Hope Floats

Ramona Calvert

Opening Night

Myrtle Gordon

The Mighty

Gram

Broken English

Vivien Wilder-Mann

The Skeleton Key

Violet Devereaux

Paulie

Ivy

A Woman Under the Influence

Mabel Longhetti

Lonely are the Brave

Jerry Bondi

Hysterical Blindness

Virginia Miller

Machine Gun McCain

Rosemary Scott

Once Around

Marilyn Bella

Unhook the Stars

Mildred

The Neon Bible

Mae Morgan

Tempest

Antonia

Something to Talk About

Georgia King

Wild Iris

Minnie Brinn

Love Streams

Sarah Lawson

Charms for the Easy Life

Charlie Kate

1001 Nights

Narrator (voice)

An Early Frost

Katherine Pierson

Yellow

Mimi

What If God Were the Sun?

Melissa Eisenbloom

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

Self

A Child Is Waiting

Sophie Widdicombe Benham

Crazy in Love

Honora Swift

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

Silent Cries

Peggy Sutherland

Anything for John

Self

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

Self

The Spiral Road

Els

The High Cost of Loving

Ginny Fry

The Weekend

Laura Ponti

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

Georgia Porter

The Betty Ford Story

Betty Ford

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Abigail Mason

Face of a Stranger

Pat Foster

Parts Per Billion

Esther

Edge of Outside

Self

Olive

Tess M Powell

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Self

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Lily Harrison

Parallel Lives

Francie Pomerantz

Nick Quarry

A Question of Love

Linda Ray Guettner

Faces

Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

Unfortunate Circumstances

Dr. Cohen

Nederland C

Self - Interviewed actress

Thursday's Child

Victoria Alden

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

Self

Best Friends for Life

Mrs. Harriet Cahill

Grace & Glorie

Grace Stiles

Montana

Bess Guthrie

Light Keeps Me Company

Self

A Constant Forge

Self

She's So Lovely

Miss Green

Cannes: All Access

Self

Hollywood Mavericks

Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Self

Making 'Faces'

Self

Watching Gena Rowlands

Self (archive footage)

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Self

Rapunzel

The Witch

Shadows

Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

Husbands

Party Guest

Ted & Venus

Mrs. Turner

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Self

Heart of the Festival

Self (archive footage)

Other Credits

Paris Je T'aime

Writer

All About My Mother

In Memory Of

Paris Je T'aime

Writer

All About My Mother

In Memory Of