Gena Rowlands

Also Credited As:

Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
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Biography

When actress 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 …
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Job Title

Actor, Writer, Music

Born

Virginia Cathryn Rowlands on June 19, 1930 in Cambria, Wisconsin, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Wild Iris

Minnie Brinn

Charms For the Easy Life

Charlie Kate

A Question of Love

Linda Ray Guettner

Thursday's Child

Victoria Alden

Grace & Glorie

Grace Stiles

What if God Were The Sun?

Melissa

Unhook the Stars

Mildred

Paulie

Ivy

Another Woman

Marion

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Mrs Evelyn Ritchie

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Actor

An Early Frost

Katherine Pierson

Best Friends For Life

Harriet

Love Streams

Sarah Lawson

Opening Night

Myrtle Gordon

The Betty Ford Story

Betty Ford

A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes

Herself

Montana

Bess Guthrie

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

Georgia Porter

Silent Cries

Dr Peggy Sutherland

Minnie and Moskowitz

Minnie Moore

Night on Earth

Victoria Snelling

The Neon Bible

Aunt Mae

Olive

Tess M Powell

Hysterical Blindness

Virginia