Gena Rowlands
Born: 1930-06-19 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 2024-08-14
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2021
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2019
- Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film as Self
2017
- Unfortunate Circumstances as Dr. Cohen
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
2014
- Watching Gena Rowlands as Self (archive footage)
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Lily Harrison
- Parts Per Billion as Esther
2012
- Yellow as Mimi
2007
- Broken English as Vivien Wilder-Mann
- What If God Were the Sun? as Melissa Eisenbloom
- Cannes: All Access as Self
2006
- Paris Je T'aime as Gena (Quartier Latin)
- Edge of Outside as Self
- Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self
2005
- Numb3rs as Erika Hellman
- The Skeleton Key as Violet Devereaux
2004
- The Notebook as Older Allie
- Taking Lives as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
- Making 'Faces' as Self
- The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2003
- NCIS as Joann Fielding
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002
- Monk as Marge Johnson
- Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller
- Charms for the Easy Life as Charlie Kate
2001
- Wild Iris as Minnie Brinn
2000
- A Constant Forge as Self
- The Color of Love: Jacey's Story as Georgia Porter
- Light Keeps Me Company as Self
1999
- The Weekend as Laura Ponti
1998
- Hope Floats as Ramona Calvert
- Grace & Glorie as Grace Stiles
- The Mighty as Gram
- 1001 Nights as Narrator (voice)
- Paulie as Ivy
- Playing by Heart as Hannah
- Best Friends for Life as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
1997
- The View as Self
- She's So Lovely as Miss Green
1996
- Unhook the Stars as Mildred
- E! True Hollywood Story as Self
- John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All as Self
1995
- Something to Talk About as Georgia King
- The Neon Bible as Mae Morgan
1994
- Parallel Lives as Francie Pomerantz
1993
- Anything for John as Self
- Silent Cries as Peggy Sutherland
1992
- Crazy in Love as Honora Swift
1991
- Once Around as Marilyn Bella
- Night on Earth as Victoria Snelling
- Ted & Venus as Mrs. Turner
- Face of a Stranger as Pat Foster
1990
- Montana as Bess Guthrie
- Hollywood Mavericks as Self (archive footage)
1988
- Another Woman as Marion
1987
- Light of Day as Janette Rasnick
- The Betty Ford Story as Betty Ford
1985
- Nederland C as Self - Interviewed actress
- An Early Frost as Katherine Pierson
1984
- Love Streams as Sarah Lawson
- I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work as Self
1983
- Rapunzel as The Witch
- Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Witch
- Tempest as Antonia
1980
- Gloria as Gloria Swenson
1979
- Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Abigail Mason
1978
- A Question of Love as Linda Ray Guettner
- The Brink's Job as Mary Pino
1977
- Opening Night as Myrtle Gordon
1976
- Two-Minute Warning as Janet
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- A Woman Under the Influence as Mabel Longhetti
1972
- Ghost Story as Kate Lucas
1971
- Columbo as Elizabeth Van Wick
- Minnie and Moskowitz as Minnie Moore
1970
- Husbands as Party Guest
1969
- Medical Center as Karen Coberly
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Lorraine Denby
- Machine Gun McCain as Rosemary Scott
1968
- Faces as Jeannie Rapp
- Nick Quarry
1967
- Tony Rome as Rita Kosterman
- Garrison's Gorillas as Duchess
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Baroness Ingrid Blangstead
1965
- Run for Your Life as Charlotte Hyde
1964
- Peyton Place as Adrienne Van Leyden
1963
- Burke's Law as Paullette Shane
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as June
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Janet Cord
- A Child Is Waiting as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Helen Martin
- The Virginian as Savannah
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Leslie Kaufman
- Lonely are the Brave as Jerry Bondi
- The Spiral Road as Els
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Helen Scott
- 87th Precinct as Teddy Carella
- Target: The Corruptors! as Marian Praisewater
1960
- Shadows as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
- The Islanders as Pepper Mint
1959
- Bonanza as Ragan Miller
- Laramie as Laurel DeWalt
- Adventures in Paradise as Dr. Abigail Brent
- Riverboat as Rose Traynor
- Johnny Staccato as Nina Van Ness
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Barbara Adams
- The High Cost of Loving as Ginny Fry
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lucille Jones
1953
- General Electric Theater as Dorothy Dickenson
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Victoria Alden
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Myrtle Wilson
1948
- Studio One as Betty
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee