Gena Rowlands

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1930-06-19

Deathday 2024-08-14 (94 years old)

Place of Birth Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As 珍娜·羅蘭, Virginia Cathryn Rowlands

Gena 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).

Known For

Actor

2017
2014
2014
Watching Gena Rowlands

as Self (archive footage)

2014
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2012
Yellow

as Mimi

2011
Olive

as Tess M Powell

2011
Faces

as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

2007
Broken English

as Vivien Wilder-Mann

2007
2007
What If God Were the Sun?

as Melissa Eisenbloom

2006
Paris Je T'aime

as Gena (Quartier Latin)

2006
2005
The Skeleton Key

as Violet Devereaux

2005
Numb3rs

as Erika Hellman

2004
The Notebook

as Older Allie

2004
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

2004
Taking Lives

as Mrs. Rebecca Asher

2004
2003
NCIS

as Joann Fielding

2002
Charms for the Easy Life

as Charlie Kate

2002
Hysterical Blindness

as Virginia Miller

2002
Monk

as Marge Johnson

2001
Wild Iris

as Minnie Brinn

2000
2000
1999
The Weekend

as Laura Ponti

1998
1998
Grace & Glorie

as Grace Stiles

1998
The Mighty

as Gram

1998
Hope Floats

as Ramona Calvert

1998
1001 Nights

as Narrator (voice)

1998
Paulie

as Ivy

1998
Best Friends for Life

as Mrs. Harriet Cahill

1997
She's So Lovely

as Miss Green

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Unhook the Stars

as Mildred

1995
The Neon Bible

as Mae Morgan

1995
Something to Talk About

as Georgia King

1994
Parallel Lives

as Francie Pomerantz

1993
1993
Silent Cries

as Peggy Sutherland

1992
Crazy in Love

as Honora Swift

1991
Face of a Stranger

as Pat Foster

1991
Night on Earth

as Victoria Snelling

1991
Ted & Venus

as Mrs. Turner

1991
Once Around

as Marilyn Bella

1990
Hollywood Mavericks

as Self (archive footage)

1990
Montana

as Bess Guthrie

1988
Another Woman

as Marion

1987
The Betty Ford Story

as Betty Ford

1987
Light of Day

as Janette Rasnick

1985
An Early Frost

as Katherine Pierson

1985
Nederland C

as Self - Interviewed actress

1984
Love Streams

as Sarah Lawson

1983
Rapunzel

as The Witch

1983
Thursday's Child

as Victoria Alden

1982
Tempest

as Antonia

1982
1980
Gloria

as Gloria Swenson

1978
The Brink's Job

as Mary Pino

1978
A Question of Love

as Linda Ray Guettner

1977
Opening Night

as Myrtle Gordon

1976
1974
A Woman Under the Influence

as Mabel Longhetti

1972
Ghost Story

as Kate Lucas

1971
Minnie and Moskowitz

as Minnie Moore

1971
Columbo

as Elizabeth Van Wick

1970
Husbands

as Party Guest

1969
Machine Gun McCain

as Rosemary Scott

1969
Medical Center

as Karen Coberly

1969
Medical Center

as Frances Delaney

1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Lorraine Denby

1968
Faces

as Jeannie Rapp

1967
Tony Rome

as Rita Kosterman

1967
1965
Run for Your Life

as Charlotte Hyde

1964
Peyton Place

as Adrienne Van Leyden

1963
A Child Is Waiting

as Sophie Widdicombe Benham

1963
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Lois Baxter

1963
Burke's Law

as Paullette Shane

1963
Burke's Law

as Mitzi Carlisle

1962
1962
Lonely are the Brave

as Jerry Bondi

1962
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Louise Henderson

1962
1962
The Virginian

as Savannah

1962
The Lloyd Bridges Show

as Leslie Kaufman

1961
Target: The Corruptors!

as Marian Praisewater

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Helen Scott

1961
87th Precinct

as Teddy Carella

1960
Shadows

as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)

1960
The Islanders

as Pepper Mint

1959
Adventures in Paradise

as Dr. Abigail Brent

1959
Laramie

as Laurel DeWalt

1959
Riverboat

as Rose Traynor

1959
Bonanza

as Ragan Miller

1959
Johnny Staccato

as Nina Van Ness

1958
1958
77 Sunset Strip

as Barbara Adams

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Lucille Jones

1953
General Electric Theater

as Dorothy Dickenson

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Victoria Alden

1950
1948
Studio One

as Betty

1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - live scenes from 'Middle of the Night'

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Writer

2006
Paris Je T'aime

as Writer