Gena Rowlands

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).

Cast

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