Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

  • Birthday: 1930-06-19
  • Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • Also know as: Virginia Cathryn Rowlands

Biography

Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gena Rowlands, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Night on Earth

1991

As Victoria Snelling

Faces

1968

As Jeannie Rapp

Playing by Heart

1998

As Hannah

Light of Day

1987

As Janette Rasnick

Paris Je T'aime

2006

As Gena (Quartier Latin)

Gloria

1980

As Gloria Swenson

The Notebook

2004

As Older Allie

Taking Lives

2004

As Mrs. Rebecca Asher

Another Woman

1988

As Marion

Two-Minute Warning

1976

As Janet

Minnie and Moskowitz

1971

As Minnie Moore

The Brink's Job

1978

As Mary Pino

Tony Rome

1967

As Rita Kosterman

Hope Floats

1998

As Ramona Calvert

Opening Night

1977

As Myrtle Gordon

The Mighty

1998

As Gram

The Skeleton Key

2005

As Violet Devereaux

Broken English

2007

As Vivien Wilder-Mann

Paulie

1998

As Ivy

A Woman Under the Influence

1974

As Mabel Longhetti

Lonely Are the Brave

1962

As Jerry Bondi

Hysterical Blindness

2002

As Virginia Miller

Machine Gun McCain

1969

As Rosemary Scott

Once Around

1991

As Marilyn Bella

The Neon Bible

1995

As Mae Morgan

Tempest

1982

As Antonia

Something to Talk About

1995

As Georgia King

Unhook the Stars

1996

As Mildred

Wild Iris

2001

As Minnie Brinn

Love Streams

1984

As Sarah Lawson

Charms for the Easy Life

2002

As Charlie Kate

An Early Frost

1985

As Katherine Pierson

What If God Were the Sun?

2007

As Melissa Eisenbloom

A Child Is Waiting

1963

As Sophie Widdicombe Benham

Crazy in Love

1992

As Honora Swift

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

2004

As Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

Silent Cries

1993

As Peggy Sutherland

Anything for John

1993

As Self

The Spiral Road

1962

As Els

The High Cost of Loving

1958

As Ginny Fry

The Weekend

1999

As Laura Ponti

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

2000

As Georgia Porter

The Betty Ford Story

1987

As Betty Ford

Face of a Stranger

1991

As Pat Foster

Parts Per Billion

2014

As Esther

Olive

2011

As Tess M Powell

Parallel Lives

1994

As Francie Pomerantz

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

2014

As Lily Harrison

Nick Quarry

1968

As

A Question of Love

1978

As Linda Ray Guettner

Faces

2011

As Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

Nederland C

1985

As Self - Interviewed actress

Thursday's Child

1983

As Victoria Alden

Yellow

2012

As Mimi

Best Friends for Life

1998

As Mrs. Harriet Cahill

Grace & Glorie

1998

As Grace Stiles

Montana

1990

As Bess Guthrie

A Constant Forge

2000

As Self

She's So Lovely

1997

As Miss Green

Cannes: All Access

2007

As Self

Hollywood Mavericks

1990

As Self (archive footage)

Making 'Faces'

2004

As Self

Watching Gena Rowlands

2014

As Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

As Self (archive footage)

Rapunzel

1983

As The Witch

Husbands

1970

As Party Guest

Shadows

1960

As Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

Ted & Venus

1991

As Mrs. Turner

1001 Nights

1998

As Narrator (voice)

Edge of Outside

2006

As Self

Unfortunate Circumstances

2017

As Dr. Cohen

Production

Paris Je T'aime

2006

As Writer

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