Gena Rowlands

Acting

Born: 1930-06-19

Died: 2024-08-14

From: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Female

Popularity: 1.6

Also Known As

Virginia Cathryn 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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Awards & Nominations17 won · 2 nominated

🏆 Won

Academy Honorary Award

2016

🏆 Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

2014

🏆 Won

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

2004

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Hysterical Blindness

2003

🏆 Won

Seattle International Film Festival

1999

🏆 Won

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

1996

🏆 Won

Sundance Film Festival

1994

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

1992

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

The Betty Ford Story

1988

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

The Betty Ford Story

1987

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

Gloria

1981

🏆 Won

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

Gloria

1980

🏆 Won

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Opening Night

1978

🏆 Won

Silver Shell for Best Actress

1975

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

A Woman Under the Influence

1975

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

A Woman Under the Influence

1975

🏆 Won

National Board of Review Award for Best Actress

A Woman Under the Influence

1974

🏆 Won

San Francisco International Film Festival

A Woman Under the Influence

1974

🏆 Won

Mary Pickford Award

Gena Rowlands

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations17 won · 2 nominated

Acting118 titles

Face of a Stranger

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

Nick Quarry

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Charms for the Easy Life

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes — The Man and His Work

E! True Hollywood Story

Garrison's Gorillas

Columbo

Faerie Tale Theatre

Monk

The Islanders

The Notebook

Light Keeps Me Company

A Woman Under the Influence

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

87th Precinct

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Opening Night

NCIS

Night on Earth

Bonanza

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Lonely are the Brave

Wild Iris

Ghost Story

Anything for John

Hollywood Mavericks

The Mighty

Love Streams

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Peter Falk versus Columbo

Golden Globe Awards

Faces

77 Sunset Strip

Run for Your Life

Paulie

What If God Were the Sun?

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

Best Friends for Life

Numb3rs

Gloria

Shadows

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Paris Je T'aime

Another Woman

A Child Is Waiting

The High Cost of Loving

A Constant Forge

General Electric Theater

The Ed Sullivan Show

Minnie and Moskowitz

1001 Nights

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

Husbands

Laramie

Playing by Heart

The Skeleton Key

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Olive

Heart of the Festival

Kraft Suspense Theatre

The Virginian

Riverboat

Taking Lives

Hope Floats

Medical Center

Two-Minute Warning

Tony Rome

Grace & Glorie

Burke's Law

The Brink's Job