
Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gena Rowlands, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Gloria | Gloria Swenson | 1980 |
Another Woman | Marion | 1988 |
Minnie and Moskowitz | Minnie Moore | 1971 |
Opening Night | Myrtle Gordon | 1977 |
Paulie | Ivy | 1998 |
Unhook the Stars | Mildred | 1996 |
Wild Iris | Minnie Brinn | 2001 |
Love Streams | Sarah Lawson | 1984 |
Charms for the Easy Life | Charlie Kate | 2002 |
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie | Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie | 2004 |
Silent Cries | Peggy Sutherland | 1993 |
The Weekend | Laura Ponti | 1999 |
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Georgia Porter | 2000 |
The Betty Ford Story | Betty Ford | 1987 |
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Lily Harrison | 2014 |
A Question of Love | Linda Ray Guettner | 1978 |
Thursday's Child | Victoria Alden | 1983 |
Grace & Glorie | Grace Stiles | 1998 |
Night on Earth | Victoria Snelling | 1991 |
Faces | Jeannie Rapp | 1968 |
Light of Day | Janette Rasnick | 1987 |
The Skeleton Key | Violet Devereaux | 2005 |
A Woman Under the Influence | Mabel Longhetti | 1974 |
Lonely Are the Brave | Jerry Bondi | 1962 |
Hysterical Blindness | Virginia Miller | 2002 |
Tempest | Antonia Dimitrius | 1982 |
An Early Frost | Katherine Pierson | 1985 |
Crazy in Love | Honora Swift | 1992 |
The High Cost of Loving | Ginny Fry | 1958 |
Face of a Stranger | Pat Foster | 1991 |
Olive | Tess M Powell | 2011 |
Best Friends for Life | Mrs. Harriet Cahill | 1998 |
Making Faces | Self | 2004 |
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film | Self | 2019 |
1001 Nights | Narrator (voice) | 1998 |
The Notebook | Old Allison "Allie" Hamilton | 2004 |
Hope Floats | Ramona Calvert | 1998 |
The Neon Bible | Mae Morgan | 1995 |
A Child Is Waiting | Sophie Widdicombe Benham | 1963 |
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Abigail Mason | 1979 |
Nick Quarry | 1968 | |
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work | Self | 1984 |
Montana | Bess Guthrie | 1990 |
Watching Gena Rowlands | Herself (archive footage) | 2014 |
Rapunzel | The Witch | 1983 |
Taking Lives | Mrs. Rebecca Asher | 2004 |
Tony Rome | Rita Kosterman | 1967 |
The Mighty | Gram | 1998 |
Broken English | Vivien Wilder-Mann | 2007 |
Something to Talk About | Georgia King | 1995 |
The Spiral Road | Els | 1962 |
Filmmakers of Our Time: John Cassavetes | Self | 1969 |
The Brink's Job | Mary Pino | 1978 |
Once Around | Marilyn Bella | 1991 |
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All | Himself | 1996 |
Faces | 2011 | |
Parts Per Billion | Esther | 2014 |
Yellow | Mimi | 2014 |
Bette Davis - Größer als das Leben | Herself | 2017 |
Hollywood Mavericks | Herself | 1990 |
Two-Minute Warning | Janet | 1976 |
What If God Were the Sun? | Melissa Eisenbloom | 2007 |
Anything for John | Self | 1993 |
Playing by Heart | Hannah | 1998 |
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story | Herself | 2006 |
Nederland C | 1985 | |
Light Keeps Me Company | Herself - Interviewee | 2000 |
A Constant Forge | Self | 2000 |
She's So Lovely | Miss Green | 1997 |
Machine Gun McCain | Rosemary Scott | 1969 |
Cannes: All Access | Self | 2007 |
Ted & Venus | Mrs. Turner | 1991 |
Parallel Lives | Francie Pomerantz | 1994 |
Husbands | Party Guest | 1970 |
Paris, Je T'Aime | Gena (Quartier Latin) | 2006 |
Shadows | Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited) | 1958 |
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003 |
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014 | Series | Cast | Year |
Burke's Law | Paullette Shane | 1963 |
Kraft Suspense Theatre | Janet Cord | 1963 |
General Electric Theater | Dorothy Dickenson | 1953 |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Victoria Alden | 1951 |
Peyton Place | 1964 | |
Laramie | 1959 | |
Robert Montgomery Presents | Myrtle Wilson | 1950 |
Numb3rs | 2005 | |
Columbo | Elizabeth Van Wick | 1971 |
77 Sunset Strip | 1958 | |
Garrison's Gorillas | 1967 | |
Monk | Marge Johnson | 2002 |
The View | Self | 1997 |
E! True Hollywood Story | 1996 | |
Medical Center | 1969 | |
Studio One | Betty | 1948 |
Faerie Tale Theatre | Witch | 1982 |
NCIS | 2003 | |
The Islanders | Pepper Mint | 1960 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lucille Jones | 1955 |
Johnny Staccato | 1959 | |
87th Precinct | Teddy Carella | 1961 |
Target: The Corruptors! | 1961 | |
The Virginian | Savannah | 1962 |
Adventures in Paradise | Dr. Abigail Brent | 1959 |
Run for Your Life | Charlotte Hyde | 1965 |
Riverboat | Rose Traynor | 1959 |
Dr. Kildare | Helen Scott | 1961 |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Helen Martin | 1962 |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Louise Henderson | 1962 |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Diana Justin | 1962 |
Ghost Story | Kate Lucas | 1972 |
Burke's Law | Mitzi Carlisle | 1963 |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | June | 1963 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self - live scenes from 'Middle of the Night' | 1948 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
Kraft Suspense Theatre | Lois Baxter | 1963 |
Bonanza | Ragan Miller | 1959 |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Grace | 1951 |