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).
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Acting History
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2019Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film as Self
2017Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
2017Unfortunate Circumstances as Dr. Cohen
2014Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Lily Harrison
2014Watching Gena Rowlands as Self (archive footage)
2014Parts Per Billion as Esther
2012Yellow as Mimi
2011Olive as Tess M Powell
2011Faces as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
2007Broken English as Vivien Wilder-Mann
2007Cannes: All Access as Self
2007What If God Were the Sun? as Melissa Eisenbloom
2006Paris Je T'aime as Gena (Quartier Latin)
2006Edge of Outside as Self
2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self
2005The Skeleton Key as Violet Devereaux
2005Numb3rs as Erika Hellman
2004The Notebook as Older Allie
2004The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2004Taking Lives as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
2004Making 'Faces' as Self
2003NCIS as Joann Fielding
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
2002Charms for the Easy Life as Charlie Kate
2002Monk as Marge Johnson
2002Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller
2001Wild Iris as Minnie Brinn
2000A Constant Forge as Self
2000Light Keeps Me Company as Self
2000The Color of Love: Jacey's Story as Georgia Porter
1999The Weekend as Laura Ponti
1998Playing by Heart as Hannah
1998Grace & Glorie as Grace Stiles
1998The Mighty as Gram
1998Hope Floats as Ramona Calvert
19981001 Nights as Narrator (voice)
1998Paulie as Ivy
1998Best Friends for Life as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
1997She's So Lovely as Miss Green
1997The View as Self
1996Unhook the Stars as Mildred
1996E! True Hollywood Story as Self
1996John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All as Self
1995The Neon Bible as Mae Morgan
1995Something to Talk About as Georgia King
1994Parallel Lives as Francie Pomerantz
1993Anything for John as Self
1993Silent Cries as Peggy Sutherland
1992Crazy in Love as Honora Swift
1991Face of a Stranger as Pat Foster
1991Night on Earth as Victoria Snelling
1991Ted & Venus as Mrs. Turner
1991Once Around as Marilyn Bella
1990Hollywood Mavericks as Self (archive footage)
1990Montana as Bess Guthrie
1988Another Woman as Marion
1987The Betty Ford Story as Betty Ford
1987Light of Day as Janette Rasnick
1985An Early Frost as Katherine Pierson
1985Nederland C as Self - Interviewed actress
1984I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work as Self
1984Love Streams as Sarah Lawson
1983Rapunzel as The Witch
1983Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden
1982Faerie Tale Theatre as Witch
1982Tempest as Antonia
1980Gloria as Gloria Swenson
1979Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Abigail Mason
1978The Brink's Job as Mary Pino
1978A Question of Love as Linda Ray Guettner
1977Opening Night as Myrtle Gordon
1976Two-Minute Warning as Janet
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974A Woman Under the Influence as Mabel Longhetti
1972Ghost Story as Kate Lucas
1971Minnie and Moskowitz as Minnie Moore
1971Columbo as Elizabeth Van Wick
1970Husbands as Party Guest
1969Medical Center as Karen Coberly
1969Medical Center as Frances Delaney
1969Marcus Welby, M.D. as Lorraine Denby
1969Machine Gun McCain as Rosemary Scott
1968Faces as Jeannie Rapp
1968Nick Quarry
1967Tony Rome as Rita Kosterman
1967Garrison's Gorillas as Duchess
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Baroness Ingrid Blangstead
1965Run for Your Life as Charlotte Hyde
1964Peyton Place as Adrienne Van Leyden
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre as Janet Cord
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre as Lois Baxter
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as June
1963Burke's Law as Paullette Shane
1963Burke's Law as Mitzi Carlisle
1963A Child Is Waiting as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Helen Martin
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Louise Henderson
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Diana Justin
1962The Virginian as Savannah
1962The Lloyd Bridges Show as Leslie Kaufman
1962The Spiral Road as Els
1962Lonely are the Brave as Jerry Bondi
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961Target: The Corruptors! as Marian Praisewater
1961Dr. Kildare as Helen Scott
196187th Precinct as Teddy Carella
1960Shadows as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
1960The Islanders as Pepper Mint
1959Adventures in Paradise as Dr. Abigail Brent
1959Laramie as Laurel DeWalt
1959Riverboat as Rose Traynor
1959Bonanza as Ragan Miller
1959Johnny Staccato as Nina Van Ness
195877 Sunset Strip as Barbara Adams
1958The High Cost of Loving as Ginny Fry
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lucille Jones
1953General Electric Theater as Dorothy Dickenson
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Victoria Alden
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as Grace
1950Robert Montgomery Presents as Myrtle Wilson
1948Studio One as Betty
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter