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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

2025
The Notebook

as    Older Allie

2017
Unfortunate Circumstances

as    Dr. Cohen

2017
2014
Parts Per Billion

as    Esther

2014
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

as    Lily Harrison

2014
Yellow

as    Mimi

2011
Faces

as    Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

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

2002
Charms for the Easy Life

as    Charlie Kate

2002
Hysterical Blindness

as    Virginia Miller

2000
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

as    Georgia Porter

1998
Grace & Glorie

as    Grace Stiles

1998
The Mighty

as    Gram

1998
Playing by Heart

as    Hannah

1998
Paulie

as    Ivy

1998
Best Friends for Life

as    Mrs. Harriet Cahill

1998
1001 Nights

as    Narrator (voice)

1998
Hope Floats

as    Ramona Calvert

1996
Unhook the Stars

as    Mildred

1995
Something to Talk About

as    Georgia King

1995
The Neon Bible

as    Mae Morgan

1993
Silent Cries

as    Peggy Sutherland