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Gena Rowlands1930 - 2024

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Actor

Popularity

3.2

Famous

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).

Credits

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.4

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

2019

Documentary

as Self

7.2(5)

0.1

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

2017

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

6(2)

0.1

Unfortunate Circumstances

2017

Comedy

as Dr. Cohen

0(0)

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

2014

Comedy

as Lily Harrison

3.2(4)

0.2

Watching Gena Rowlands

2014

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

0(0)

0.1

Parts Per Billion

2014

Science Fiction

as Esther

4.4(62)

0.7

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

7(54)

1.1

Yellow

2012

Drama

as Mimi

5(9)

0.7

Olive

2011

Family • Fantasy

as Tess M Powell

6.5(1)

0.2

Faces

2011

as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

0(0)

0.1

Broken English

2007

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Vivien Wilder-Mann

6(69)

0.4

Cannes: All Access

2007

Documentary

as Self

3.7(3)

0.2

What If God Were the Sun?

2007

Drama • TV Movie

as Melissa Eisenbloom

7(5)

0.3

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Drama • Romance

as Gena (Quartier Latin)

6.8(771)

Edge of Outside

2006

Documentary

as Self

5.8(4)

0.4

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2006

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

7(13)

0.3

The Skeleton Key

2005

Drama • Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Violet Devereaux

6.6(2,117)

3.7

The Notebook

2004

Drama • Romance

as Older Allie

7.9(11,875)

18.9

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

2004

Drama • TV Movie

as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

7.2(4)

0.4

Taking Lives

2004

Thriller

as Mrs. Rebecca Asher

6.4(1,637)

2.1

Making 'Faces'

2004

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

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

2003

Documentary • History • Music

as Self

7(6)

0.5

Charms for the Easy Life

2002

Drama

as Charlie Kate

7(1)

0.4

Hysterical Blindness

2002

Drama • TV Movie

as Virginia Miller

6(31)

0.6

Wild Iris

2001

Drama • TV Movie

as Minnie Brinn

7(6)

0.6

Light Keeps Me Company

2000

Documentary

as Self

7.8(8)

0.3

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

2000

Drama • TV Movie

as Georgia Porter

7(5)

0.3

A Constant Forge

2000

Documentary

as Self

6.6(13)

0.3

The Weekend

1999

Drama

as Laura Ponti

1(2)

0.6

Playing by Heart

1998

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Hannah

6.6(234)

1.3

Grace & Glorie

1998

Drama • TV Movie

as Grace Stiles

6.3(6)

0.5

The Mighty

1998

Comedy • Drama

as Gram

7.2(255)

1.5

Hope Floats

1998

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Ramona Calvert

6.4(476)

5.3

1001 Nights

1998

Animation • Drama • Fantasy

as Narrator (voice)

6.5(20)

0.3

Paulie

1998

Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Family

as Ivy

6.9(485)

4.3

Best Friends for Life

1998

Drama • TV Movie

as Mrs. Harriet Cahill

0(0)

0.1

She's So Lovely

1997

Drama • Romance • Thriller

as Miss Green

5.9(119)

0.7

Unhook the Stars

1996

Drama • Romance

as Mildred

5.9(42)

0.7

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

1996

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The Neon Bible

1995

Drama

as Mae Morgan

6.1(24)

0.4

Something to Talk About

1995

Comedy • Drama

as Georgia King

5.7(243)

1.4

Parallel Lives

1994

Drama • TV Movie

as Francie Pomerantz

5(6)

0.5

Anything for John

1993

Documentary

as Self

6(2)

0.2

Silent Cries

1993

Drama • TV Movie

as Peggy Sutherland

1(1)

0.6

Crazy in Love

1992

Comedy • Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Honora Swift

4.4(9)

0.2

Face of a Stranger

1991

Drama

as Pat Foster

10(1)

0.1

Night on Earth

1991

Comedy • Drama

as Victoria Snelling

7.5(948)

1.7

Ted & Venus

1991

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Mrs. Turner

4.3(9)

0.6

Once Around

1991

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Marilyn Bella

6.1(58)

0.4

Hollywood Mavericks

1990

Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

6(2)

0.2

Montana

1990

TV Movie • Western

as Bess Guthrie

5.2(5)

0.4

Another Woman

1988

Drama

as Marion

6.8(275)

0.7

The Betty Ford Story

1987

Drama • TV Movie

as Betty Ford

0(0)

0.1

Light of Day

1987

Drama • Music

as Janette Rasnick

5.5(51)

0.9

An Early Frost

1985

Drama • TV Movie

as Katherine Pierson

6(33)

0.3

Nederland C

1985

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self - Interviewed actress

4(1)

0.2

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

1984

Documentary

as Self

8.4(5)

0.1

Love Streams

1984

Drama

as Sarah Lawson

7.2(136)

0.7

Rapunzel

1983

Family • Fantasy • Romance • TV Movie

as The Witch

5.4(4)

0.2

Thursday's Child

1983

Drama • TV Movie

as Victoria Alden

1(1)

0.3

Tempest

1982

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Antonia

6(37)

1.3

Gloria

1980

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Gloria Swenson

6.8(241)

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Abigail Mason

10(3)

0.2

The Brink's Job

1978

Comedy • Crime • Drama • History

as Mary Pino

6(65)

0.7

A Question of Love

1978

Drama • TV Movie

as Linda Ray Guettner

5.3(8)

0.2

Opening Night

1977

Drama

as Myrtle Gordon

7.6(241)

0.8

Two-Minute Warning

1976

Action • Thriller

as Janet

6.2(90)

0.6

A Woman Under the Influence

1974

Drama • Romance

as Mabel Longhetti

7.8(511)

2.5

Minnie and Moskowitz

1971

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Minnie Moore

6.7(95)

0.5

Husbands

1970

Comedy • Drama

as Party Guest

6.8(144)

0.6

Machine Gun McCain

1969

Action • Crime • Drama

as Rosemary Scott

6.2(41)

0.3

Faces

1968

Drama

as Jeannie Rapp

7.1(202)

0.7

Nick Quarry

1968

Crime • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Tony Rome

1967

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

as Rita Kosterman

6.3(62)

1.3

A Child Is Waiting

1963

Drama

as Sophie Widdicombe Benham

6.8(56)

0.4

The Spiral Road

1962

Adventure • Drama • Romance

as Els

5.2(10)

0.3

Lonely are the Brave

1962

Drama • Western

as Jerry Bondi

7.4(155)

0.7

Shadows

1960

Drama

as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

6.9(252)

0.5

The High Cost of Loving

1958

Comedy

as Ginny Fry

5.7(3)

0.2