Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands

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...

Known For

The Notebook

as Older Allie

The Skeleton Key

as Violet Devereaux

Cast Credits

Yellow

as Mimi

Olive

as Tess M Powell

Faces

as Jeannie Rapp (archive footage)

Broken English

as Vivien Wilder-Mann

What If God Were the Sun?

as Melissa Eisenbloom

Paris Je T'aime

as Gena (Quartier Latin)

The Skeleton Key

as Violet Devereaux

The Notebook

as Older Allie

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie

Taking Lives

as Mrs. Rebecca Asher

Hysterical Blindness

as Virginia Miller

Wild Iris

as Minnie Brinn

The Weekend

as Laura Ponti

Grace & Glorie

as Grace Stiles

The Mighty

as Gram

Hope Floats

as Ramona Calvert

1001 Nights

as Narrator (voice)

Paulie

as Ivy

Best Friends for Life

as Mrs. Harriet Cahill

She's So Lovely

as Miss Green

The Neon Bible

as Mae Morgan

Parallel Lives

as Francie Pomerantz

Crew Credits