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Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

Birthday: 1930-06-19 | Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2014
Parts Per Billion

as    Esther

2014
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

as    Lily Harrison

2014
Yellow

as    Mimi

2011
Olive

as    Tess M Powell

2007
What If God Were the Sun?

as    Melissa Eisenbloom

2007
Broken English

as    Vivien Wilder-Mann

2006
2005
The Skeleton Key

as    Violet Devereaux

2004
Taking Lives

as    Mrs. Rebecca Asher

2004
The Notebook

as    Older Allie

2002
Hysterical Blindness

as    Virginia Miller

1998
The Mighty

as    Gram

1998
Playing by Heart

as    Hannah

1998
Paulie

as    Ivy

1998
Hope Floats

as    Ramona Calvert

1996
Unhook the Stars

as    Mildred

1995
Something to Talk About

as    Georgia King

1992
Crazy in Love

as    Honora Swift

1992
Night on Earth

as    Victoria Snelling

1991
Once Around

as    Marilyn Bella

1988
Another Woman

as    Marion

1987
Light of Day

as    Janette Rasnick

1985
An Early Frost

as    Katherine Pierson

1984
Love Streams

as    Sarah Lawson

1982
Tempest

as    Antonia

1980
Gloria

as    Gloria Swenson

1979
1978
The Brink's Job

as    Mary Pino

1977
Opening Night

as    Myrtle Gordon

1976
Two-Minute Warning

as    Janet