Gena Rowlands
Actor · Writer · CrewVirginia 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).
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR81
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Self
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
Self
Peter Falk versus Columbo
2019
Self (archive footage)
Unfortunate Circumstances
2017
Dr. Cohen
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
Self
Yellow
2014
Mimi
Parts Per Billion
2014
Esther
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014
Lily Harrison
Watching Gena Rowlands
2014
Self (archive footage)
Olive
2011
Tess M Powell
Faces
2011
Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
Broken English
2007
Vivien Wilder-Mann
What If God Were the Sun?
2007
Melissa Eisenbloom
Cannes: All Access
2007
Self
Paris Je T'aime
2006
Gena (Quartier Latin)
Edge of Outside
2006
Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006
Self
The Skeleton Key
2005
Violet Devereaux
The Notebook
2004
Older Allie
Taking Lives
2004
Mrs. Rebecca Asher
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
2004
Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
Making 'Faces'
2004
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Self
Hysterical Blindness
2002
Virginia Miller
Charms for the Easy Life
2002
Charlie Kate
Heart of the Festival
2002
Self (archive footage)
Wild Iris
2001
Minnie Brinn
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
Georgia Porter
Light Keeps Me Company
2000
Self
A Constant Forge
2000
Self
The Weekend
1999
Laura Ponti
Playing by Heart
1998
Hannah
Hope Floats
1998
Ramona Calvert
The Mighty
1998
Gram
Paulie
1998
Ivy
1001 Nights
1998
Narrator (voice)
Best Friends for Life
1998
Mrs. Harriet Cahill
Grace & Glorie
1998
Grace Stiles
She's So Lovely
1997
Miss Green
Unhook the Stars
1996
Mildred
- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
1996
Self
The Neon Bible
1995
Mae Morgan
Something to Talk About
1995
Georgia King
Parallel Lives
1994
Francie Pomerantz
Silent Cries
1993
Peggy Sutherland
Anything for John
1993
Self
Crazy in Love
1992
Honora Swift
Night on Earth
1991
Victoria Snelling
Once Around
1991
Marilyn Bella
Face of a Stranger
1991
Pat Foster
Ted & Venus
1991
Mrs. Turner
Montana
1990
Bess Guthrie
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
Self (archive footage)
Another Woman
1988
Marion
Light of Day
1987
Janette Rasnick
The Betty Ford Story
1987
Betty Ford
An Early Frost
1985
Katherine Pierson
- Nederland C
Nederland C
1985
Self - Interviewed actress
Love Streams
1984
Sarah Lawson
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
1984
Self
Thursday's Child
1983
Victoria Alden
Rapunzel
1983
The Witch
Tempest
1982
Antonia
Gloria
1980
Gloria Swenson
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979
Abigail Mason
The Brink's Job
1978
Mary Pino
A Question of Love
1978
Linda Ray Guettner
Opening Night
1977
Myrtle Gordon
Two-Minute Warning
1976
Janet
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
Mabel Longhetti
Minnie and Moskowitz
1971
Minnie Moore
Husbands
1970
Party Guest
Machine Gun McCain
1969
Rosemary Scott
Faces
1968
Jeannie Rapp
Nick Quarry
1968
Tony Rome
1967
Rita Kosterman
A Child Is Waiting
1963
Sophie Widdicombe Benham
Lonely are the Brave
1962
Jerry Bondi
The Spiral Road
1962
Els
Shadows
1960
Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
The High Cost of Loving
1958
Ginny Fry
