Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

127

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
جنا رولندز

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

7.9%

The Notebook

May 25, 2004

7.6%

NCIS

Sep 23, 2003

6.6%

The Skeleton Key

Jul 29, 2005

6.4%

Taking Lives

Mar 19, 2004

7.9%

Monk

Jul 12, 2002

7.5%

Night on Earth

Dec 12, 1991

6.8%

Paris Je T'aime

Jun 21, 2006

8.1%

Columbo

Sep 15, 1971

7.8%

A Woman Under the Influence

Nov 18, 1974

6.8%

Paulie

Apr 17, 1998

6.4%

Hope Floats

May 29, 1998

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

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Acting

2021

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self

2019

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film as Self

2017		Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
2017		Unfortunate Circumstances as Dr. Cohen

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

Yellow 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 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		Making 'Faces' as Self

2003		NCIS 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 as Marge Johnson
2002		Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller

2001

Wild Iris 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

The Weekend 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 as Self

1996		Unhook the Stars as Mildred
1996		E! True Hollywood Story 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

Parallel Lives as Francie Pomerantz

1993		Anything for John as Self
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		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 as Witch
1982		Tempest as Antonia

1980

Gloria as Gloria Swenson

1979

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter as Abigail Mason

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

1977

Opening Night as Myrtle Gordon

1976

Two-Minute Warning as Janet

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self

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		Medical Center as Karen Coberly
1969		Medical Center as Frances Delaney
1969		Marcus Welby, M.D. as Lorraine Denby
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 as Duchess

1965

Run for Your Life as Charlotte Hyde

1964

Peyton Place as Adrienne Van Leyden

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

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Helen Martin
1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Louise Henderson
1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Diana Justin
1962		The Virginian as Savannah
1962		The Lloyd Bridges Show as Leslie Kaufman
1962		The Spiral Road as Els
1962		Lonely are the Brave as Jerry Bondi

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
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		77 Sunset Strip as Barbara Adams
1958		The High Cost of Loving as Ginny Fry

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lucille Jones

1953

General Electric Theater as Dorothy Dickenson

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Victoria Alden
1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Grace

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents as Myrtle Wilson

1948		Studio One as Betty
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

Writing

2006

Paris Je T'aime as Writer