
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).
Filmography

Face of a Stranger
1991 · 10.0

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979 · 9.4

Nick Quarry
1968 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8

Charms for the Easy Life
2002 · 8.5

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · 8.1

Garrison's Gorillas
1967 · 8.1

Columbo
1971 · 8.1

The Islanders
1960 · 8.0

Monk
2002 · 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · 7.9

The Notebook
2004 · 7.9

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · 7.8

87th Precinct
1961 · 7.8

A Woman Under the Influence
1974 · 7.7

NCIS
2003 · 7.6

Opening Night
1977 · 7.6

Bonanza
1959 · 7.5

Night on Earth
1991 · 7.5

Ghost Story
1972 · 7.4

Lonely are the Brave
1962 · 7.4

77 Sunset Strip
1958 · 7.2

The Mighty
1998 · 7.2

Love Streams
1984 · 7.2

Run for Your Life
1965 · 7.1

Paulie
1998 · 7.1

Faces
1968 · 7.1

Numb3rs
2005 · 7.0

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · 6.9

Gloria
1980 · 6.9

Shadows
1960 · 6.9

Paris Je T'aime
2006 · 6.8

General Electric Theater
1953 · 6.8

Another Woman
1988 · 6.8

A Child Is Waiting
1963 · 6.8

Laramie
1959 · 6.7

Playing by Heart
1998 · 6.7

Husbands
1970 · 6.7

Minnie and Moskowitz
1971 · 6.7

1001 Nights
1998 · 6.7

The Skeleton Key
2005 · 6.6

Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · 6.6

The High Cost of Loving
1958 · 6.6

The Virginian
1962 · 6.5

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · 6.5

Riverboat
1959 · 6.5

Hope Floats
1998 · 6.5

Olive
2011 · 6.5

Medical Center
1969 · 6.4

Tony Rome
1967 · 6.4

Taking Lives
2004 · 6.4

The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962 · 6.3

Two-Minute Warning
1976 · 6.3

Burke's Law
1963 · 6.2

Peyton Place
1964 · 6.2

The Brink's Job
1978 · 6.2

Adventures in Paradise
1959 · 6.1

Machine Gun McCain
1969 · 6.1

Once Around
1991 · 6.1

Hysterical Blindness
2002 · 6.1

The Neon Bible
1995 · 6.1

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · 6.0

Montana
1990 · 6.0
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · 5.9

She's So Lovely
1997 · 5.9

Unhook the Stars
1996 · 5.9

Tempest
1982 · 5.9

Broken English
2007 · 5.9

Rapunzel
1983 · 5.9

An Early Frost
1985 · 5.8

Dr. Kildare
1961 · 5.7

Target: The Corruptors!
1961 · 5.7

Parallel Lives
1994 · 5.7

Something to Talk About
1995 · 5.6

Light of Day
1987 · 5.5

The Spiral Road
1962 · 5.5

Studio One
1948 · 5.4

Yellow
2014 · 5.3

Johnny Staccato
1959 · 5.2

A Question of Love
1978 · 5.2

Crazy in Love
1992 · 4.6

Ted & Venus
1991 · 4.5

Parts Per Billion
2014 · 4.4

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014 · 2.8

The Weekend
1999 · 2.7

Faces
2011 · 0.0

Unfortunate Circumstances
2017 · 0.0