Cast
Gena Rowlands
Acting
Cast
Gena Rowlands
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-06-19
From
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Died
2024-08-14
Also known as Virginia Cathryn 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).
★7.9
MOVIE2004
The Notebook
as Older Allie
★6.6
MOVIE2005
The Skeleton Key
as Violet Devereaux
★6.4
MOVIE2004
Taking Lives
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
★6.4
MOVIE1998
Hope Floats
as Ramona Calvert
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Paulie
as Ivy
★5.6
MOVIE1995
Something to Talk About
as Georgia King
★7.8
MOVIE1974
A Woman Under the Influence
as Mabel Longhetti
★7.5
MOVIE1991
Night on Earth
as Victoria Snelling
★6.8
MOVIE2006
Paris Je T'aime
as Gena (Quartier Latin)
★6.6
MOVIE1998
Playing by Heart
as Hannah
★6.8
MOVIE1988
Another Woman
as Marion
★2.7
MOVIE1999
The Weekend
as Laura Ponti
★6.5
MOVIE2002
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1969
Machine Gun McCain
as Rosemary Scott
★7.4
MOVIE1962
Lonely are the Brave
as Jerry Bondi
★7.3
MOVIE1998
The Mighty
as Gram
★7.2
MOVIE1984
Love Streams
as Sarah Lawson
★5.9
MOVIE1997
She's So Lovely
as Miss Green
★7.2
MOVIE2019
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1990
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE1980
Gloria
as Gloria Swenson
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Hysterical Blindness
as Virginia Miller
★5.5
MOVIE1962
The Spiral Road
as Els
★4.6
MOVIE1992
Crazy in Love
as Honora Swift
★5.3
MOVIE2014
Yellow
as Mimi
★4.4
MOVIE2014
Parts Per Billion
as Esther
★7.6
MOVIE1977
Opening Night
as Myrtle Gordon
★6.0
MOVIE1996
Unhook the Stars
as Mildred
★6.3
MOVIE1976
Two-Minute Warning
as Janet
★7.2
MOVIE2004
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
★6.8
MOVIE2000
A Constant Forge
as Self
★7.9
MOVIE2000
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE1963
A Child Is Waiting
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
★3.2
MOVIE2007
Cannes: All Access
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1993
Anything for John
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1971
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Minnie Moore
★6.7
MOVIE1970
Husbands
as Party Guest
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Edge of Outside
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE1985
An Early Frost
as Katherine Pierson
★7.0
MOVIE2007
What If God Were the Sun?
as Melissa Eisenbloom
★7.2
MOVIE2019
Peter Falk versus Columbo
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1982
Tempest
as Antonia
★6.4
MOVIE1967
Tony Rome
as Rita Kosterman
★6.2
MOVIE1978
The Brink's Job
as Mary Pino
★4.5
MOVIE1991
Ted & Venus
as Mrs. Turner
★6.9
MOVIE1960
Shadows
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE2007
Broken English
as Vivien Wilder-Mann
★5.5
MOVIE1987
Light of Day
as Janette Rasnick
★7.1
MOVIE1968
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp
★8.5
MOVIE2002
Charms for the Easy Life
as Charlie Kate
MOVIE2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
MOVIE1987
The Betty Ford Story
as Betty Ford
★6.7
MOVIE2006
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1991
Once Around
as Marilyn Bella
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Grace & Glorie
as Grace Stiles
★5.7
MOVIE1994
Parallel Lives
as Francie Pomerantz
★6.6
MOVIE1958
The High Cost of Loving
as Ginny Fry
★7.0
MOVIE1998
Best Friends for Life
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
★5.0
MOVIE1993
Silent Cries
as Peggy Sutherland
★7.4
MOVIE2001
Wild Iris
as Minnie Brinn
★5.5
MOVIE1983
Thursday's Child
as Victoria Alden
★6.7
MOVIE1998
1001 Nights
as Narrator (voice)
★8.3
MOVIE1984
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2000
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
as Georgia Porter
★6.1
MOVIE1990
Montana
as Bess Guthrie
★9.4
MOVIE1979
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
as Abigail Mason
★6.1
MOVIE1995
The Neon Bible
as Mae Morgan
★10.0
MOVIE1991
Face of a Stranger
as Pat Foster
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self
MOVIE1996
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1983
Rapunzel
as The Witch
★2.8
MOVIE2014
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
as Lily Harrison
★5.2
MOVIE1978
A Question of Love
as Linda Ray Guettner
MOVIE2011
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE2011
Olive
as Tess M Powell
★9.0
MOVIE1968
Nick Quarry
MOVIE2014
Watching Gena Rowlands
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2004
Making 'Faces'
as Self
MOVIE2017
Unfortunate Circumstances
as Dr. Cohen
★4.0
MOVIE1985
Nederland C
as Self - Interviewed actress