Gena Rowlands

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 113

Gender Female

Birthday 1930-06-19 (93 years old)

Place of Birth Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As

Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
Джина Роулендс

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Gena Rowlands

Biography

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).

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Known For

Acting

2021

as Self

2019

as Self

2017

as Self

2014		Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Lily Harrison
2014		Watching Gena Rowlands as Self (archive footage)
2014		Parts Per Billion as Esther
2014		And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2012

as Mimi

2011		Olive as Tess M Powell
2011		Faces as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

2007		Broken English as Vivien Wilder-Mann
2007		Cannes: All Access as Self
2007		What If God Were the Sun? as Melissa Eisenbloom

2006		Paris Je T'aime as Gena (Quartier Latin)
2006		Edge of Outside as Self
2006		Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self

2005		The Skeleton Key as Violet Devereaux
2005		Numb3rs (1 episode) as Erika Hellman

2004		The Notebook as Old Allison "Allie" Hamilton
2004		The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2004		Taking Lives as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
2004		Making 'Faces' as Self

2003		NCIS (1 episode) as Joann Fielding
2003		Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self

2002		Charms for the Easy Life as Charlie Kate
2002		Monk (1 episode) as Marge Johnson
2002		Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller

2001

as Minnie Brinn

2000		Light Keeps Me Company as Self
2000		The Color of Love: Jacey's Story as Georgia Porter
2000		A Constant Forge as Self

1999

as Laura Ponti

1998		Playing by Heart as Hannah
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 (1 episode) as Self

1996		Unhook the Stars as Mildred
1996		E! True Hollywood Story (1 episode) as Self
1996		John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All as Self

1995		The Neon Bible as Mae Morgan
1995		Something to Talk About as Georgia King

1994

as Francie Pomerantz

1993		Anything for John as Self
1993		Silent Cries as Peggy Sutherland

1992

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

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		I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - The Man and His Work as Self
1984		Love Streams as Sarah Lawson

1983		Rapunzel as The Witch
1983		Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden

1982		Faerie Tale Theatre (1 episode) as Witch
1982		Tempest as Antonia

1980

as Gloria Swenson

1979

as Abigail Mason

1978		The Brink's Job as Mary Pino
1978		A Question of Love as Linda Ray Guettner

1977

as Myrtle Gordon

1976

as Janet

1975

(1 episode) as Self

1974

as Mabel Longhetti

1972

(1 episode) as Kate Lucas

1971		Minnie and Moskowitz as Minnie Moore
1971		Columbo (1 episode) as Elizabeth Van Wick

1970

as Party Guest

1969		Medical Center (1 episode) as Karen Coberly
1969		Machine Gun McCain as Rosemary Scott

1968		Faces as Jeannie Rapp
1968		Nick Quarry

1967		Tony Rome as Rita Kosterman
1967		Garrison's Gorillas (1 episode) as Duchess

1965

(1 episode) as Charlotte Hyde

1964

(193 episodes) as Adrienne Van Leyden

1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre (1 episode) as Lois Baxter (1 episode) as Janet Cord
1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 episode) as June
1963		Burke's Law (1 episode) as Mitzi Carlisle (1 episode) as Paullette Shane
1963		A Child Is Waiting as Sophie Widdicombe Benham

1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 episode) as Diana Justin (1 episode) as Louise Henderson (1 episode) as Helen Martin
1962		The Virginian (1 episode) as Savannah
1962		The Spiral Road as Els
1962		Lonely Are the Brave as Jerry Bondi

1961		Target: The Corruptors! (1 episode) as Marian Praisewater
1961		Dr. Kildare (1 episode) as Helen Scott
1961		87th Precinct (30 episodes) as Teddy Carella

1960

(1 episode) as Pepper Mint

1959		Shadows as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
1959		Adventures in Paradise (1 episode) as Dr. Abigail Brent
1959		Laramie (1 episode) as Laurel DeWalt
1959		Riverboat (1 episode) as Rose Traynor
1959		Bonanza (1 episode) as Ragan Miller
1959		Johnny Staccato (1 episode) as Nina Van Ness

1958		77 Sunset Strip (1 episode) as Barbara Adams
1958		The High Cost of Loving as Ginny Fry

1955

(1 episode) as Lucille Jones

1953

(1 episode) as Dorothy Dickenson

1951

(1 episode) as Grace (1 episode) as Victoria Alden

1950

(1 episode) as Myrtle Wilson

1948		Studio One (1 episode) as Betty
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show (1 episode) as Self (1 episode) as Self - live scenes from 'Middle of the Night'

Writing

2006

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