
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

Hope Floats

Taking Lives

Paris Je T'aime

Paulie

Night on Earth

The Mighty

A Woman Under the Influence

Playing by Heart

Something to Talk About

Lonely are the Brave

Machine Gun McCain

She's So Lovely

Another Woman

Faces

Light of Day

Tony Rome

Gloria

Opening Night

Love Streams

A Child Is Waiting

Two-Minute Warning

Parts Per Billion

Unhook the Stars

The Brink's Job

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

The Weekend

Heart of the Festival

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Crazy in Love

Shadows

Peter Falk versus Columbo

Husbands

Hollywood Mavericks
TV Shows

The Mike Douglas Show

The View

Bonanza

Golden Globe Awards

Numb3rs

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Virginian

Robert Montgomery Presents

Dr. Kildare

Studio One

Medical Center

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Burke's Law

Run for Your Life

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Laramie

Faerie Tale Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Ed Sullivan Show

77 Sunset Strip

Adventures in Paradise

Ghost Story

87th Precinct

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

Riverboat

Garrison's Gorillas

Target: The Corruptors!

The Islanders

Johnny Staccato

The Lloyd Bridges Show

E! True Hollywood Story

Hallmark Hall of Fame

General Electric Theater

Peyton Place
More Movies

Once Around

Broken English

Ted & Venus

Minnie and Moskowitz

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

Cannes: All Access

Hysterical Blindness

Light Keeps Me Company

Tempest

Anything for John

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

An Early Frost

Montana

Charms for the Easy Life

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Grace & Glorie

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

1001 Nights

The Spiral Road

Thursday's Child

A Question of Love

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Yellow

Rapunzel

Parallel Lives

Edge of Outside

Silent Cries

The Betty Ford Story

What If God Were the Sun?

Wild Iris

A Constant Forge

Face of a Stranger

The Neon Bible

Best Friends for Life

The High Cost of Loving

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

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

Making 'Faces'

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Watching Gena Rowlands

Faces

Nick Quarry

Unfortunate Circumstances




