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Gena Rowlands

Television Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 06/19/1930 († 94, 08/14/2024) | Madison, Wisconsin (United States of America (USA))
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Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (June 19, 1930 – August 14, 2024) was an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television spanned nearly seven decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she collaborated with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980), both of which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Opening Night (1977). She appeared in Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988), and her son Nick Cassavetes's film, The Notebook (2004). In 2021, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "The most important and original movie actor of the past half century-plus is Gena Rowlands." In November 2015, Rowlands received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her unique screen performances. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past. ...

The Skeleton Key

PG-13

2005 | 3.3/5 | 1h 44min
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World ...

The Notebook

PG-13

2004 | 3.9/5 | 2h 3min
Romance / Love, Drama
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Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to ...

Hope Floats

PG-13

1998 | 3.2/5 | 1h 54min
Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy
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Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extrem ...

A Woman Under the Influence

R

1974 | 3.9/5 | 2h 35min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Gena Rowlands

Silver Bear for Best Actress Silver Shell for Best Actress 2x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Mary Pickford Award Academy Honorary Award National Board of Review Award for Best Actress San Francisco International Film Festival Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Sundance Film Festival National Board of Review Seattle International Film Festival Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2x Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Gena Rowlands as Actress(76)

as herself2021 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as herself2019 Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
as herself2017 Bette Davis - Größer als das Leben
as Lily Harrison2014 Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as Esther2014 Parts Per Billion
as Mimi2012 Yellow
as Tess M Powell2011 Olive
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)2011 Faces
as herself2007 Cannes: All Access
as Melissa Eisenbloom2007 What If God Were the Sun?
as Vivien Wilder-Mann2007 Broken English
as herself2006 Edge of Outside
as herself2006 Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Gena (Quartier Latin)2006 Paris Je T'aime
as Violet Devereaux2005 The Skeleton Key
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie2004 The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher2004 Taking Lives
as Old Allison "Allie" Hamilton2004 The Notebook
as herself2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Virginia Miller2002 Hysterical Blindness
as Charlie Kate2002 Charms for the Easy Life
as Minnie Brinn2001 Wild Iris
as herself2000 Light Keeps Me Company
as Georgia Porter2000 The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
as herself2000 A Constant Forge
as Laura Ponti1999 The Weekend
as Ramona Calvert1998 Hope Floats
as Hannah1998 Playing by Heart
as Gram1998 The Mighty
as Grace Stiles1998 Grace & Glorie
as Narrator (voice)1998 1001 Nights
as Ivy1998 Paulie
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill1998 Best Friends for Life
as Miss Green1997 She's So Lovely
as Mildred1996 Unhook the Stars
as herself1996 John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
as Mae Morgan1995 The Neon Bible
as Georgia King1995 Something to Talk About
as Francie Pomerantz1994 Parallel Lives
as Peggy Sutherland1993 Silent Cries
as herself1993 Anything for John
as Honora Swift1992 Crazy in Love
as Victoria Snelling1991 Night on Earth
as Marilyn Bella1991 Once Around
as Mrs. Turner1991 Ted & Venus
as Pat Foster1991 Face of a Stranger
as Bess Guthrie1990 Montana
as Self (archive footage)1990 Hollywood Mavericks
as Marion1988 Another Woman
as Janette Rasnick1987 Light of Day
as Betty Ford1987 The Betty Ford Story
as Self - Interviewed actress1985 Nederland C
as Katherine Pierson1985 An Early Frost
as herself1984 I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work
as Sarah Lawson1984 Love Streams
as Victoria Alden1983 Thursday's Child
as Antonia Dimitrius1982 Tempest
as Gloria Swenson1980 Gloria
as Abigail Mason1979 Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
as Linda Ray Guettner1978 A Question of Love
as Mary Pino1978 The Brink's Job
as Myrtle Gordon1977 Opening Night
as Janet1976 Two-Minute Warning
as Mabel Longhetti1974 A Woman Under the Influence
as Minnie Moore1971 Minnie and Moskowitz
as Party Guest1970 Husbands
as Rosemary Scott1969 Machine Gun McCain
1968 Nick Quarry
as Jeannie Rapp1968 Faces
as Rita Kosterman1967 Tony Rome
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham1963 A Child Is Waiting
as Els1962 The Spiral Road
as Jerry Bondi1962 Lonely Are the Brave
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)1958 Shadows
as Ginny Fry1958 The High Cost of Loving

TV Shows/Series with Gena Rowlands as Actress(40)

as Erika Hellman2005 Numb3rs
as Joann Fielding2003 NCIS
as Marge Johnson2002 Monk
as herself1997 The View
as herself1996 E! True Hollywood Story
as Witch1982 Faerie Tale Theatre
as herself1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Kate Lucas1972 Ghost Story
as Elizabeth Van Wick1971 Columbo
as Karen Coberly1969 Medical Center
as Duchess1967 Garrison's Gorillas
as Charlotte Hyde1965 Run for Your Life
as Adrienne Van Leyden1964 Peyton Place
as Paullette Shane1963 Burke's Law
as Mitzi Carlisle1963 Burke's Law
as June1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Janet Cord1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lois Baxter1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Helen Martin1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Louise Henderson1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Diana Justin1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Savannah1962 The Virginian
as Marian Praisewater1961 Target: The Corruptors!
as Helen Scott1961 Dr. Kildare
as Teddy Carella1961 87th Precinct
as Pepper Mint1960 The Islanders
as Laurel DeWalt1959 Laramie
as Rose Traynor1959 Riverboat
as Ragan Miller1959 Bonanza
as Dr. Abigail Brent1959 Adventures in Paradise
as Nina Van Ness1959 Johnny Staccato
as Barbara Adams1958 77 Sunset Strip
as Lucille Jones1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Dorothy Dickenson1953 GE Theater
as Victoria Alden1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Grace1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Myrtle Wilson1950 Robert Montgomery Presents
as Self - live scenes from 'Middle of the Night'1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as herself1948 The Ed Sullivan Show
as Betty1948 Studio One

Movies with Gena Rowlands as Crew(1)

Writing/Writer2006 Paris Je T'aime

Full Name: Virginia Rowlands
Born: Thursday, 06/19 1930 (June) in Madison, Wisconsin (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 08/14 2024 (August) in Indian Wells (aged: 94)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Washington-Liberty High School
Spouses (current/former): John Cassavetes, Robert Forrest
Father: Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands
Other names for Gena Rowlands (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Virginia Cathryn Rowlands"
Gena Rowlands frequently works together with these people:
John Cassavetes (36x, Actor)
Vaughn Taylor (29x, Actor)
Leslie Nielsen (27x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (23x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (22x, Actor)
James Daly (22x, Actor)
John Newland (22x, Crew)
John Forsythe (21x, Actor)
Skip Homeier (20x, Actor)
James Gregory (20x, Actor)
Nina Foch (20x, Actress)
Bert Freed (20x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:5796, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 08/19/2024