
Place of Birth:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Date of Birth:
6/19/1930
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).

Night on Earth

Light of Day

Faces

Playing by Heart

Paris Je T'aime

Gloria

The Notebook

Taking Lives

Another Woman

Two-Minute Warning

Minnie and Moskowitz

The Brink's Job

Tony Rome

Hope Floats

Opening Night

The Mighty

Broken English

The Skeleton Key

Paulie

A Woman Under the Influence

Lonely are the Brave

Hysterical Blindness

Machine Gun McCain

Once Around

Unhook the Stars

The Neon Bible

Tempest

Something to Talk About

Wild Iris

Love Streams

Charms for the Easy Life

1001 Nights

An Early Frost

Yellow

What If God Were the Sun?

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

A Child Is Waiting

Crazy in Love

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Silent Cries

Anything for John
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

The Spiral Road

The High Cost of Loving

The Weekend

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

The Betty Ford Story

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Face of a Stranger

Parts Per Billion

Edge of Outside

Olive

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Parallel Lives

Nick Quarry

A Question of Love

Faces

Unfortunate Circumstances
Nederland C

Thursday's Child

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

Best Friends for Life

Grace & Glorie

Montana

Light Keeps Me Company

A Constant Forge

She's So Lovely

Cannes: All Access

Hollywood Mavericks

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Making 'Faces'

Watching Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Rapunzel

Shadows

Husbands

Ted & Venus

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Heart of the Festival