Gena Rowlands
Highest Rated: 100% Love Streams (1984)
Lowest Rated: 22% Taking Lives (2004)
Birthday: Jun 19, 1930
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
When actor Gena Rowlands arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, she could easily have opted to take the Hollywood starlet route. But she shared a creative vision with filmmaker and husband John Cassavetes; preferring instead to use her stunning, camera-loving facial features and natural acting style in unglamorous roles in groundbreaking independent films that launched an entire movement. Devoted to the idea of unearthing complex human emotions rather than painting characters with a one-dimensional Hollywood brush, Rowlands was a key factor in Cassavetes' low budget, documentary-style dramas "Faces" (1968), "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) and "Opening Night" (1977). Whether playing a suburban housewife or a successful entertainer, Rowlands took risks with unconventional characters who dared to look inwards and question the unfulfilled promises of the status quo. From her acclaimed, Oscar-nominated roles on the 1970s art house circuit, Rowlands spent her later career lending authenticity to more mainstream fare, with Golden Globe and Emmy-winning roles as eccentric mothers and middle-aged women in crisis in television movies and theatrical releases.
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Gena Rowlands
Filmography
Movies
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55% |
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Lily Harrison (Character) | $12.5K | 2014 |
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Parts Per Billion | Esther (Character) | - | 2014 |
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Yellow | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Olive | Tess M Powell (Character) | - | 2011 |
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What if God Were the Sun? | Melissa Eisenbloom (Character) | - | 2007 |
64% |
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Broken English | Vivien Wilder-Mann (Character) | $955.6K | 2007 |
86% |
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Paris, je t'aime |
Gena (Character), Writer |
$4.9M | 2006 |
37% |
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The Skeleton Key | Violet Devereaux (Character) | $47.8M | 2005 |
54% |
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The Notebook | Allie Calhoun (Character) | $81.0M | 2004 |
22% |
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Taking Lives | Mrs. Asher (Character) | $32.7M | 2004 |
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie | Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Charms for the Easy Life | Charlie Kate Birch (Character) | - | 2002 |
75% |
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Hysterical Blindness | Virginia Miller (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Iris | Minnie Brinn (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Georgia Porter (Character) | - | 2000 |
50% | No Score Yet | The Weekend | Laura Ponti (Character) | $31.4K | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best Friends for Life | Mrs. Harriet Cahill (Character) | - | 1998 |
75% |
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The Mighty | Susan 'Gram' Pinneman (Character) | $2.6M | 1998 |
27% |
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Hope Floats | Ramona Calvert (Character) | $60.0M | 1998 |
60% |
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Playing by Heart | Hannah (Character) | $4.0M | 1998 |
62% |
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Paulie | Ivy (Character) | $27.0M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Grace & Glorie | Grace Stiles (Character) | - | 1998 |
66% |
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She's So Lovely | Miss Jane Green (Character) | $7.3M | 1997 |
81% |
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Unhook the Stars | Mildred 'Millie' Hawks (Character) | $285.5K | 1996 |
55% |
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The Neon Bible | Aunt Mae (Character) | $5.0K | 1995 |
33% |
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Something to Talk About | Georgia King (Character) | $49.7M | 1995 |
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Parallel Lives | Francie Pomerantz (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silent Cries | Peggy Sutherland (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Crazy in Love | Honora Swift (Character) | - | 1992 |
77% |
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Night on Earth | Victoria Snelling (Character) | $2.0M | 1992 |
67% |
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Once Around | Marilyn Bella (Character) | $14.3M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ted and Venus | Mrs. Turner (Character) | - | 1991 |
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Face of a Stranger | Pat Foster (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Montana | Bess Guthrie (Character) | - | 1990 |
59% |
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Another Woman | Marion Post (Character) | $499.5K | 1988 |
53% |
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Light of Day | Jeanette Rasnick (Character) | $9.1M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Betty Ford Story | Betty Ford (Character) | - | 1987 |
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An Early Frost | Katherine Pierson (Character) | - | 1985 |
100% |
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Love Streams | Sarah Lawson (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thursday's Child | Victoria Alden (Character) | - | 1983 |
55% |
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Tempest | Antonia Dimitrius (Character) | - | 1982 |
91% |
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Gloria | Gloria Swenson (Character) | - | 1980 |
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Abigail Mason (Character) | - | 1979 |
70% |
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The Brink's Job | Mary Pino (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Question of Love | Linda Ray Guettner (Character) | - | 1978 |
96% |
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Opening Night | Myrtle Gordon (Character) | $10.5K | 1977 |
29% |
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Two Minute Warning | Janet (Character) | - | 1976 |
89% |
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A Woman Under the Influence | Mabel Longhetti (Character) | - | 1974 |
82% |
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Minnie and Moskowitz | Minnie Moore (Character) | - | 1971 |
80% |
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Machine Gun McCain | Rosemary Scott (Character) | - | 1969 |
85% |
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Faces | Jeannie Rapp (Character) | - | 1968 |
63% |
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Tony Rome | Rita Kosterman (Character) | - | 1967 |
92% |
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A Child Is Waiting | Sophie Widdicombe (Character) | - | 1963 |
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The Spiral Road | Els (Character) | - | 1962 |
93% |
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Lonely Are the Brave | Jerry Bondi (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Cost of Loving | Ginny Fry (Character) | - | 1958 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Joann Fielding (Guest Star) | 2010 |
89% | 87% | Monk | Marge Johnson (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Numb3ers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Elizabeth Van Wick (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Lorraine Denby (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place | Adrienne Van Leyden (Character) | 1964-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Garrison's Gorillas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
10% | No Score Yet | The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Savannah (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Barbara Adams (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lloyd Bridges Show | Leslie Kaufman (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lucille Jones (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Staccato | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Laurel DeWalt (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | .Lily (Character) | 1955 |