
Gena Rowlands
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).
Known For
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Filmography
Acting (119)
Movies (79)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021as Self
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019as Self
Unfortunate Circumstances
2017as Dr. Cohen
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017as Self
Parts Per Billion
2014as Esther
Watching Gena Rowlands
2014as Self (archive footage)
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014as Lily Harrison
Yellow
2012as Mimi
Faces
2011as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
Olive
2011as Tess M Powell
What If God Were the Sun?
2007as Melissa Eisenbloom
Broken English
2007as Vivien Wilder-Mann
Cannes: All Access
2007as Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006as Self
Paris Je T'aime
2006as Gena (Quartier Latin)
Edge of Outside
2006as Self
The Skeleton Key
2005as Violet Devereaux
The Notebook
2004as Older Allie
Taking Lives
2004as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
2004as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
Making 'Faces'
2004as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003as Self
Hysterical Blindness
2002as Virginia Miller
Charms for the Easy Life
2002as Charlie Kate
Wild Iris
2001as Minnie Brinn
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000as Georgia Porter
Light Keeps Me Company
2000as Self
A Constant Forge
2000as Self
The Weekend
1999as Laura Ponti
Paulie
1998as Ivy
The Mighty
1998as Gram
Best Friends for Life
1998as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
Hope Floats
1998as Ramona Calvert
1001 Nights
1998as Narrator (voice)
Playing by Heart
1998as Hannah
Grace & Glorie
1998as Grace Stiles
She's So Lovely
1997as Miss Green
Unhook the Stars
1996as Mildred
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996as Self
The Neon Bible
1995as Mae Morgan
Something to Talk About
1995as Georgia King
Parallel Lives
1994as Francie Pomerantz
Anything for John
1993as Self
Silent Cries
1993as Peggy Sutherland
Crazy in Love
1992as Honora Swift
Night on Earth
1991as Victoria Snelling
Ted & Venus
1991as Mrs. Turner
Once Around
1991as Marilyn Bella
Face of a Stranger
1991as Pat Foster
Hollywood Mavericks
1990as Self (archive footage)
Montana
1990as Bess Guthrie
Another Woman
1988as Marion
Light of Day
1987as Janette Rasnick
The Betty Ford Story
1987as Betty Ford
An Early Frost
1985as Katherine Pierson
Nederland C
1985as Self - Interviewed actress
Love Streams
1984as Sarah Lawson
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984as Self
Rapunzel
1983as The Witch
Thursday's Child
1983as Victoria Alden
Tempest
1982as Antonia
Gloria
1980as Gloria Swenson
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979as Abigail Mason
A Question of Love
1978as Linda Ray Guettner
The Brink's Job
1978as Mary Pino
Opening Night
1977as Myrtle Gordon
Two-Minute Warning
1976as Janet
A Woman Under the Influence
1974as Mabel Longhetti
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971as Minnie Moore
Husbands
1970as Party Guest
Machine Gun McCain
1969as Rosemary Scott
Faces
1968as Jeannie Rapp
Nick Quarry
1968
Tony Rome
1967as Rita Kosterman
A Child Is Waiting
1963as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
Lonely are the Brave
1962as Jerry Bondi
The Spiral Road
1962as Els
Shadows
1960as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
The High Cost of Loving
1958as Ginny Fry
Television (40)
Numb3rs
2005as Erika Hellman
NCIS
2003as Joann Fielding
Monk
2002as Marge Johnson
The View
1997as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982as Witch
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975as Self
Ghost Story
1972as Kate Lucas
Columbo
1971as Elizabeth Van Wick
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969as Lorraine Denby
Medical Center
1969as Frances Delaney
Garrison's Gorillas
1967as Duchess
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966as Baroness Ingrid Blangstead
Run for Your Life
1965as Charlotte Hyde
Peyton Place
1964as Adrienne Van Leyden
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963as June
Burke's Law
1963as Paullette Shane
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963as Janet Cord
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962as Helen Martin
The Virginian
1962as Savannah
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962as Leslie Kaufman
The Mike Douglas Show
1961as Self
Dr. Kildare
1961as Helen Scott
Target: The Corruptors!
1961as Marian Praisewater
87th Precinct
1961as Teddy Carella
The Islanders
1960as Pepper Mint
Bonanza
1959as Ragan Miller
Adventures in Paradise
1959as Dr. Abigail Brent
Laramie
1959as Laurel DeWalt
Johnny Staccato
1959as Nina Van Ness
Riverboat
1959as Rose Traynor
77 Sunset Strip
1958as Barbara Adams
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Lucille Jones
General Electric Theater
1953as Dorothy Dickenson
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Victoria Alden
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950as Myrtle Wilson
Studio One
1948as Betty
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee
Crew (2)
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