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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 19, 1930
Died
August 14, 2024
Place of Birth
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- 珍娜·羅蘭
- Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
- جنا رولندز
Gena Rowlands
1.4 Popularity
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
0.0
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
7.2
Self
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
2019
6.0
Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
0.0
Dr. Cohen
Unfortunate Circumstances
2017
2.8
Lily Harrison
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Watching Gena Rowlands
2014
4.4
Esther
Parts Per Billion
2014
5.0
Mimi
Yellow
2012
6.5
Tess M Powell
Olive
2011
0.0
Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
Faces
2011
Credits
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
as Self
2019
7.2
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self
2017
6.0
Unfortunate Circumstances
as Dr. Cohen
2017
0.0
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
as Lily Harrison
2014
2.8
Watching Gena Rowlands
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
Parts Per Billion
as Esther
2014
4.4
Yellow
as Mimi
2012
5.0
Olive
as Tess M Powell
2011
6.5
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Broken English
as Vivien Wilder-Mann
2007
5.9
Cannes: All Access
as Self
2007
3.8
What If God Were the Sun?
as Melissa Eisenbloom
2007
7.0
Paris Je T'aime
as Gena (Quartier Latin)
2006
6.8
Edge of Outside
as Self
2006
5.8
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Self
2006
6.7
The Skeleton Key
as Violet Devereaux
2005
6.6
Numb3rs
as Erika Hellman
2005
7.0
The Notebook
as Older Allie
2004
7.9
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie
2004
7.2
Taking Lives
as Mrs. Rebecca Asher
2004
6.4
Making 'Faces'
as Self
2004
0.0
NCIS
as Joann Fielding
2003
7.6
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Charms for the Easy Life
as Charlie Kate
2002
7.0
Monk
as Marge Johnson
2002
8.0
Hysterical Blindness
as Virginia Miller
2002
6.0
Wild Iris
as Minnie Brinn
2001
7.0
A Constant Forge
as Self
2000
6.6
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
2000
7.8
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
as Georgia Porter
2000
7.0
The Weekend
as Laura Ponti
1999
1.3
Playing by Heart
as Hannah
1998
6.6
Grace & Glorie
as Grace Stiles
1998
6.3
The Mighty
as Gram
1998
7.2
Hope Floats
as Ramona Calvert
1998
6.4
1001 Nights
as Narrator (voice)
1998
6.6
Paulie
as Ivy
1998
6.9
Best Friends for Life
as Mrs. Harriet Cahill
1998
0.0
She's So Lovely
as Miss Green
1997
5.9
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Unhook the Stars
as Mildred
1996
5.9
E! True Hollywood Story
as Self
1996
8.1
🎬
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
as Self
1996
0.0
The Neon Bible
as Mae Morgan
1995
6.0
Something to Talk About
as Georgia King
1995
5.6
Parallel Lives
as Francie Pomerantz
1994
5.0
Anything for John
as Self
1993
6.0
Silent Cries
as Peggy Sutherland
1993
1.0
Crazy in Love
as Honora Swift
1992
4.1
Face of a Stranger
as Pat Foster
1991
10.0
Night on Earth
as Victoria Snelling
1991
7.5
Ted & Venus
as Mrs. Turner
1991
4.0
Once Around
as Marilyn Bella
1991
6.0
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self (archive footage)
1990
6.0
Montana
as Bess Guthrie
1990
6.0
Another Woman
as Marion
1988
6.8
The Betty Ford Story
as Betty Ford
1987
0.0
Light of Day
as Janette Rasnick
1987
5.5
An Early Frost
as Katherine Pierson
1985
5.7
🎬
Nederland C
as Self - Interviewed actress
1985
4.0
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work
as Self
1984
8.4
Love Streams
as Sarah Lawson
1984
7.2
Rapunzel
as The Witch
1983
5.4
Thursday's Child
as Victoria Alden
1983
1.0
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Witch
1982
8.1
Tempest
as Antonia
1982
5.9
Gloria
as Gloria Swenson
1980
6.9
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
as Abigail Mason
1979
9.2
The Brink's Job
as Mary Pino
1978
6.1
A Question of Love
as Linda Ray Guettner
1978
4.8
Opening Night
as Myrtle Gordon
1977
7.6
Two-Minute Warning
as Janet
1976
6.2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
A Woman Under the Influence
as Mabel Longhetti
1974
7.8
Ghost Story
as Kate Lucas
1972
7.1
Minnie and Moskowitz
as Minnie Moore
1971
6.6
Columbo
as Elizabeth Van Wick
1971
8.1
Husbands
as Party Guest
1970
6.7
Medical Center
as Karen Coberly
1969
6.1
Medical Center
as Frances Delaney
1969
6.1
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Lorraine Denby
1969
6.5
Machine Gun McCain
as Rosemary Scott
1969
6.0
Faces
as Jeannie Rapp
1968
7.1
Nick Quarry
1968
0.0
Tony Rome
as Rita Kosterman
1967
6.3
Garrison's Gorillas
as Duchess
1967
7.8
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Baroness Ingrid Blangstead
1966
6.6
Run for Your Life
as Charlotte Hyde
1965
7.2
Peyton Place
as Adrienne Van Leyden
1964
6.1
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Janet Cord
1963
5.3
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lois Baxter
1963
5.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as June
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Paullette Shane
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Mitzi Carlisle
1963
6.0
A Child Is Waiting
as Sophie Widdicombe Benham
1963
6.8
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Helen Martin
1962
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Louise Henderson
1962
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Diana Justin
1962
7.9
The Virginian
as Savannah
1962
6.4
The Lloyd Bridges Show
as Leslie Kaufman
1962
5.0
The Spiral Road
as Els
1962
5.2
Lonely are the Brave
as Jerry Bondi
1962
7.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Target: The Corruptors!
as Marian Praisewater
1961
3.5
Dr. Kildare
as Helen Scott
1961
5.5
87th Precinct
as Teddy Carella
1961
7.5
Shadows
as Woman in Nightclub Audience (uncredited)
1960
6.9
The Islanders
as Pepper Mint
1960
8.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Dr. Abigail Brent
1959
5.7
Laramie
as Laurel DeWalt
1959
6.6
Riverboat
as Rose Traynor
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Ragan Miller
1959
7.5
Johnny Staccato
as Nina Van Ness
1959
5.0
77 Sunset Strip
as Barbara Adams
1958
6.7
The High Cost of Loving
as Ginny Fry
1958
5.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Lucille Jones
1955
7.8
General Electric Theater
as Dorothy Dickenson
1953
6.4
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Victoria Alden
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Grace
1951
8.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Myrtle Wilson
1950
5.6
Studio One
as Betty
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2