About
Gena Rowlands
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2021 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Bette Davis: Larger Than Life | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Unfortunate Circumstances | Actor | Dr. Cohen | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Actor | Lily Harrison | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Watching Gena Rowlands | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Parts Per Billion | Actor | Esther | 57 Average |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Yellow | Actor | Mimi | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Olive | Actor | Tess M Powell | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Faces | Actor | Jeannie Rapp (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Broken English | Actor | Vivien Wilder-Mann | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Cannes: All Access | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | What If God Were the Sun? | Actor | Melissa Eisenbloom | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Paris Je T'aime | Actor | Gena (Quartier Latin) | 64 Fair |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Stardust: The Bette Davis Story | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key | Actor | Violet Devereaux | 64 Fair |
| 2004 | The Notebook | Actor | Older Allie | 78 Good |
| 2004 | The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie | Actor | Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Actor | Mrs. Rebecca Asher | 62 Fair |
| 2004 | Making 'Faces' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Charms for the Easy Life | Actor | Charlie Kate | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Hysterical Blindness | Actor | Virginia Miller | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Wild Iris | Actor | Minnie Brinn | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Actor | Georgia Porter | 59 Average |
| 2000 | A Constant Forge | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | The Weekend | Actor | Laura Ponti | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Playing by Heart | Actor | Hannah | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | Grace & Glorie | Actor | Grace Stiles | 59 Average |
| 1998 | The Mighty | Actor | Gram | 62 Fair |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Actor | Ramona Calvert | 60 Fair |
| 1998 | 1001 Nights | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Paulie | Actor | Ivy | 63 Fair |
| 1998 | Best Friends for Life | Actor | Mrs. Harriet Cahill | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | Actor | Miss Green | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Unhook the Stars | Actor | Mildred | 59 Average |
| 1996 | John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | The Neon Bible | Actor | Mae Morgan | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Something to Talk About | Actor | Georgia King | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Parallel Lives | Actor | Francie Pomerantz | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Anything for John | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Silent Cries | Actor | Peggy Sutherland | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Crazy in Love | Actor | Honora Swift | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Face of a Stranger | Actor | Pat Foster | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Night on Earth | Actor | Victoria Snelling | 69 Fair |
| 1991 | Ted & Venus | Actor | Mrs. Turner | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Once Around | Actor | Marilyn Bella | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Montana | Actor | Bess Guthrie | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Another Woman | Actor | Marion | 61 Fair |
| 1987 | The Betty Ford Story | Actor | Betty Ford | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Light of Day | Actor | Janette Rasnick | 58 Average |
| 1985 | An Early Frost | Actor | Katherine Pierson | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Nederland C | Actor | Self - Interviewed actress | 59 Average |
| 1984 | I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Love Streams | Actor | Sarah Lawson | 61 Fair |
| 1983 | Rapunzel | Actor | The Witch | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Thursday's Child | Actor | Victoria Alden | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | Tempest | Actor | Antonia | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Gloria | Actor | Gloria Swenson | 61 Fair |
| 1979 | Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Actor | Abigail Mason | 59 Average |
| 1978 | The Brink's Job | Actor | Mary Pino | 59 Average |
| 1978 | A Question of Love | Actor | Linda Ray Guettner | 58 Average |
| 1977 | Opening Night | Actor | Myrtle Gordon | 63 Fair |
| 1976 | Two-Minute Warning | Actor | Janet | 59 Average |
| 1974 | A Woman Under the Influence | Actor | Mabel Longhetti | 68 Fair |
| 1971 | Minnie and Moskowitz | Actor | Minnie Moore | 60 Fair |
| 1970 | Husbands | Actor | Party Guest | 60 Fair |
| 1969 | Machine Gun McCain | Actor | Rosemary Scott | 59 Average |
| 1969 | Filmmakers of Our Time: John Cassavetes | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 1968 | Faces | Actor | Jeannie Rapp | 62 Fair |
| 1968 | Nick Quarry | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1967 | Tony Rome | Actor | Rita Kosterman | 59 Average |
| 1963 | A Child Is Waiting | Actor | Sophie Widdicombe Benham | 59 Average |
| 1962 | The Spiral Road | Actor | Els | 58 Average |
| 1962 | Lonely are the Brave | Actor | Jerry Bondi | 62 Fair |
| 1961 | 87th Precinct | Actor | Teddy Carella | 69 Fair |
| 1960 | Shadows | Actor | Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 1958 | The High Cost of Loving | Actor | Ginny Fry | 59 Average |
Writing |
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| 2006 | Paris Je T'aime | Writing | Writer | 64 Fair |