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Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is a retired American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned seven decades. 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). She is also known for her performances in Woody Allen's Another Woman (1988), and her son, Nick Cassavetes's film, The Notebook (2004). In 2021, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, “The most important and original movie actor of the past half century-plus is Gena Rowlands.”[1] In November 2015, Rowlands received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her unique screen performances.[2]

Gena Rowlands
Rowlands in 1968
Born	Virginia Cathryn Rowlands (1930-06-19) June 19, 1930 (age 92) Cambria, Wisconsin, U.S.
Alma mater	American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1950–2014
Spouse(s)	John Cassavetes ​ ​ (m. 1954; died 1989)​ Robert Forrest ​ ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	Nick Cassavetes Alexandra Cassavetes Zoe Cassavetes
Parent(s)	Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands Lady Rowlands

Early years

Rowlands was born on June 19, 1930, in Cambria, Wisconsin.[3][4] Her mother, Mary Allen (Neal), was a housewife who later worked as an actress under the stage name Lady Rowlands.[5] Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and state legislator.[6] He was a member of the Wisconsin Progressive Party, and was of Welsh descent.[7] She had an elder brother, David Rowlands.

Her family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1939, when Edwin was appointed to a position in the United States Department of Agriculture; moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, when he was appointed as branch manager of the Office of Price Administration;[8] and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1947–50, she attended the University of Wisconsin,[9] where she was a popular student already renowned for her beauty.[10] While in college, she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.[11] She left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career

Early roles (1952–1967)

In the early 1950s, Rowlands performed with repertory theatre companies and at the Provincetown Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in The Seven Year Itch and toured in a national production of the play. In 1956, she starred in the Broadway play Middle of the Night opposite Edward G. Robinson.

Rowlands costarred with Paul Stewart in the 26-episode syndicated TV series Top Secret (1954–55). She guest-starred on such anthology television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Studio One, Appointment with Adventure, The United States Steel Hour and Goodyear Television Playhouse, all in 1955. In 1959, Rowlands appeared in the western series Laramie, alongside her husband John Cassavetes in the detective series Johnny Staccato, and in the western series Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. In 1961, she appeared in the adventure series The Islanders, set in the South Pacific, and in Target: The Corruptors!, starring Stephen McNally. She guest-starred in The Lloyd Bridges Show, the detective series 77 Sunset Strip, the westerns Bonanza and The Virginian, and Breaking Point, all in 1963. In 1964, she guest-starred in the medical drama Dr. Kildare and in two episodes of Burke's Law. She appeared in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, three of which were after the series had been renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. In 1967, she was cast as socialite Adrienne Van Leyden in the prime-time ABC soap opera Peyton Place.

Rowlands made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving in 1958. In 1962, she starred in director David Miller's Lonely Are the Brave, with Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau. She played the former lover of the Kirk Douglas character, now the wife of the Douglas character's best friend.

Cassavetes era (1963–1984)

Rowlands and Cassavetes made ten films together: A Child Is Waiting (1963), Faces (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), A Woman Under the Influence (1974; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress), Two-Minute Warning (1976), Opening Night (1977), Gloria (1980; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress), Tempest (1982), and Love Streams (1984).[12]

According to Boston University film scholar Ray Carney, Rowlands sought to suppress an early version of Cassavetes's first film, Shadows, that Carney says he rediscovered after decades of searching.[13] Rowlands also became involved in the screenings of Husbands and Love Streams, according to Carney. The UCLA Film and Television Archive mounted a restoration of Husbands, as it was pruned down (without Cassavetes's consent, and in violation of his contract) by Columbia Pictures several months after its release, in an attempt to restore as much of the removed content as possible. At Rowlands's request, UCLA created an alternative print with almost ten minutes of content edited out, as Rowlands felt that these scenes were in poor taste. The alternative print is the only one that has been made available for rental.[14]

Late career (1985–present)

In 1985, Rowlands played the mother in the critically acclaimed made-for-TV movie An Early Frost. She won an Emmy for her portrayal of former First Lady of the United States Betty Ford in the 1987 made-for-TV movie The Betty Ford Story.

In 1988, Rowlands starred in Woody Allen's dramatic film Another Woman. She played Marion Post, a middle-aged professor who is prompted to a journey of self-discovery when she overhears the therapy sessions of another woman (Mia Farrow). The review in Time Out described the character's trajectory: "Marion gets to thinking, and is appalled to realise that so many assumptions about her own life and marriage are largely unfounded: in her desire for a controlled existence, she has evaded the emotional truth about relationships with her best friend (Sandy Dennis), brother (Harris Yulin) and husband (Ian Holm)." Time Out praised the "marvellous" performances in the film, adding, "Rowlands' perfectly pitched approach to a demanding role is particularly stunning."[15] Film4 called her performance "sublime",[16] while Roger Ebert noted that it marked a considerable change in tone from her work with Cassavetes, thus showing "how good an actress Rowlands has been all along."[17]

In 2002, Rowlands appeared in Mira Nair's HBO movie Hysterical Blindness, for which she won her third Emmy. Next year she appeared as Mrs. Hellman an episode from the third season of Numb3rs. She played a Nazi survivor whose whole family was killed. The family owned a painting that the Nazis confiscated. Later on the painting reappeared. The new owner lent the painting to an art gallery in Los Angeles but while on display it was stolen. F.B.I. agent Don Eppes, played by Rob Morrow, tries to figure out what really happened. Rowlands received rave reviews for this role. She has been a spokesperson for people who were persecuted by the Nazis so this role was a perfect match for her.

She was later seen in The Notebook (2004), which was directed by her son Nick Cassavetes. The same year, she won her first Daytime Emmy for her role as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie in The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie. In 2005, she appeared opposite Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, and John Hurt in the gothic thriller The Skeleton Key.

In 2007, she played a supporting role opposite Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud in Broken English, an independent American feature written and directed by her daughter Zoe Cassavetes. In 2009, she appeared on an episode of Monk ("Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door"). On March 2, 2010, she appeared on an episode of NCIS as lead character Leroy Jethro Gibbs's former mother-in-law, who is embroiled in a murder investigation.[18] In 2014, she starred in the film adaptation of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.[19]

Personal life

Rowlands was married to John Cassavetes from April 9, 1954, until his death on February 3, 1989. They met at the American Academy at Carnegie Hall, where they were both students. They had three children, all actor-directors: Nick, Alexandra, and Zoe. Rowlands married retired businessman Robert Forrest in 2012.

Rowlands has stated that she was a fan of actress Bette Davis while growing up. She played Davis's daughter in the 1979 made-for-TV film Strangers.[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notees
1958	The High Cost of Loving	Jenny Fry	José Ferrer
1959	Shadows	Woman in Nightclub	John Cassavetes	Uncredited
1962	Lonely Are the Brave	Jerry Bondi	David Miller
1962	The Spiral Road	Els	Robert Mulligan
1963	A Child Is Waiting	Sophie Widdicombe	John Cassavetes
1967	Tony Rome	Rita Kosterman	Gordon Douglas
1968	Faces	Jeannie Rapp	John Cassavetes
1969	Machine Gun McCain	Rosemary Scott	Giuliano Montaldo
1971	Minnie and Moskowitz	Minnie Moore	John Cassavetes
1974	A Woman Under the Influence	Mabel Longhetti	John Cassavetes
1976	Two-Minute Warning	Janet	Larry Peerce
1977	Opening Night	Myrtle Gordon	John Cassavetes
1978	The Brink's Job	Mary Pino	William Friedkin
1980	Gloria	Gloria Swenson	John Cassavetes
1982	Tempest	Antonia Dimitrius	Paul Mazursky
1984	Love Streams	Sarah Lawson	John Cassavetes
1984	I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man & His Work	Herself	Michael Ventura	Documentary Short
1987	Light of Day	Jeanette Rasnick	Paul Schrader
1988	Another Woman	Marion Post	Woody Allen
1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Herself	Florence Dauman Dale Ann Stieber	Documentary
1991	Once Around	Marilyn Bella	Lasse Hallström
1991	Night on Earth	Victoria Snelling	Jim Jarmusch
1991	Ted & Venus	Mrs. Turner	Bud Cort
1995	Something to Talk About	Georgia King	Lasse Hallström
1995	The Neon Bible	Mae Morgan	Terence Davies
1996	Unhook the Stars	Mildred "Millie" Hawks	Nick Cassavetes
1997	She's So Lovely	Miss Jane Green	Nick Cassavetes
1998	Paulie	Ivy	John Roberts
1998	Hope Floats	Ramona Calvert	Forest Whitaker
1998	The Mighty	Gram	Peter Chelsom
1998	Playing by Heart	Hannah	Willard Carroll
1999	The Weekend	Laura Ponti	Brian Skeet
2000	Light Keeps Me Company	Herself – interviewee	Carl-Gustav Nykvist	Documentary
2004	Taking Lives	Mrs. Asher	D. J. Caruso
2004	The Notebook	Old Allie Calhoun	Nick Cassavetes
2005	The Skeleton Key	Violet Devereaux	Iain Softley
2006	Paris, je t'aime	Gena	Gérard Depardieu	Segment: Quartier Latin
2007	Broken English	Vivien Wilder-Mann	Zoe Cassavetes
2007	Persepolis	Grandmother	Marjane Satrapi Vincent Paronnaud	Voice; English dubbed version
2011	Olive		Tess M Powell
2012	Yellow	Mimi	Nick Cassavetes
2013	Parts Per Billion	Esther	Brian Horiuchi
2014	Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks	Lily Harrison	Arthur Allan Seidelman

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Top Secret	Powell	Episode: This Man is Death
1955	The Way of the World	Paula Graves
1955	Robert Montgomery Presents	Myrtle Wilson	Episode: The Great Gatsby
1955	Ponds Theater	Janet	Episode: The Ways of Courage
1955	Armstrong Circle Theatre	Lugene	Episode: Time for Love
1955	Studio One on Hollywood	Betty	Episode: A Chance of Love
1955	Appointment with Adventure	Performer	2 episodes
1955	The United States Steel Hour	Lily	Episode: Ashton Buys a Horse
1955	Goodyear Television Playhouse	Betty/Eve	2 episodes
1958	General Electric Theater	Dorothy Dickenson	Episode: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
1959	Laramie	Laurel DeWalt	Episode: The Run to Tumavaca
1959	Johnny Staccato	Nina Van Ness	Episode: Fly Baby, Fly
1959	Markham	Rita Evans	Episode: The Altar
1959	Riverboat	Rose Traynor	Episode: Guns for Empire
1960	Adventures in Paradise	Dr. Abigail Brent	Episode: The Death-Divers
1960	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Lucille Jones	Episode: The Doubtful Doctor
1960	The Tab Hunter Show	Barbara/Penelope	Episode: Double Trouble
1961	The Islanders	Pepper Mint	Episode: Island Witness
1961	Target: The Corruptors!	Marian Praisewater	Episode: The Poppy Vendor
1961-62	87th Precinct	Teddy Carella	4 episodes
1963	The Dick Powell Theatre	Mrs. Canfield	Episode: Project X
1963	The Lloyd Bridges Show	Leslie Kaufman	Episode: A Personal Matter
1963	77 Sunset Strip	Barbara Adams	Episode: Flight 307
1963	Bonanza	Ragan Miller	Episode: She Walks in Beauty
1963	The Virginian	Savannah	Episode: No Tears for Savannah
1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	June	Episode: It's Mental Work
1963	Breaking Point	Shelley Peters	Episode: Heart of Marble, Body of Shame
1962-64	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Performer	3 episodes
1963-64	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Performer	2 episodes
1964	Dr. Kildare	Helen Scott	Episode: To Walk in Grace
1964	Burke's Law	Mitzie/Paulette	2 episodes
1966	Run for Your Life	Charlotte Hyde	Episode: The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde
1966	The Long, Hot Summer	Karen Roberts	Episode: From This Day Forward
1967	The Road West	Karen Collier	Episode: Beyond the Hill
1967	The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.	Baroness Ingrid	Episode: The Fountain of Youth Affair
1967	Peyton Place	Adrienne Van Leyden	39 episodes
1968	Garrison's Gorillas	Duchess	Episode: The Frame-Up
1971-73	Medical Center	Karen/Frances	2 episodes
1972	Circle of Fear	Kate Lucas	Episode: The Concrete Captain
1974	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Lorrain Denby	Episode: The 266 Days
1975	Columbo	Elizabeth Van Wyck	Episode: Playback
1978	A Question of Love	Linda Ray Guettner	Television Movie
1979	Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter	Abigail Mason	Television Movie
1983	Thursday's Child	Victoria Alden	Television Movie
1983	Faerie Tale Theatre	Witch	Episode: Rapunzel
1985	An Early Frost	Katherine Pierson	Television Movie
1987	The Betty Ford Story	Betty Ford	Television Movie
1990	Montana	Bess Guthrie	Television Movie
1991	Face of a Stranger	Pat Foster	Television Movie
1992	Crazy in Love	Honora Swift	Television Movie
1993	Anything for John	Herself	Television Documentary
1994	Parallel Lives	Francie Pomerantz	Television Movie
1998	Grace & Glorie	Grace Stiles	Television Movie
1998	Best Friends for Life	Mrs. Harriet Cahill	Television Movie
2000	The Color of Love: Jacey's Story	Georgia Porter	Television Movie
2001	Wild Iris	Minnie Brinn	Television Movie
2002	Charms for the Easy Life	Ms. Charlie Kate	Television Movie
2003	Broadway: The Golden Age	Herself	Documentary series
2003	Hysterical Blindness	Virginia Miller	Television Movie
2004	The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie	Evelyn Ritchie	Television Movie
2006	Numb3rs	Mrs. Hellman	Episode: Provenance
2007	What If God Were the Sun?	Melissa Eisenbloom	Television Movie
2009	Monk	Marge Johnson	Episode: Mr. Monk & the Lady Next Door
2010	NCIS	Joann Fielding	Episode: Mother's Day

Awards and nominations

Rowlands has been nominated for two Academy Awards, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award, eight Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, and two SAG Awards. Some of her notable wins are a Silver Bear for Best Actress, three Primetime Emmy Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two National Board of Review Awards, and two Satellite Awards.

In January 2015, Rowlands was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.[21] She was also chosen by the Academy Awards board of governors to receive an Honorary Academy Award that same year. At the Governors Awards ceremony, she was honored by Laura Linney and Cate Blanchett who offered up tributes; and Rowland's son Nick Cassavetes presented the award to her. The press release described Rowlands as "an original talent" whose "devotion to her craft has earned her worldwide recognition as an independent film icon".[22]

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1974	Best Actress	A Woman Under the Influence	Nominated
1980		Gloria	Nominated
2015	Honorary Academy Award	—	Won

Primetime Emmy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1986	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	An Early Frost	Nominated
1987		The Betty Ford Story	Won
1992		Face of a Stranger	Won
2000		The Color of Love: Jacey's Story	Nominated
2002		Wild Iris	Nominated
2003	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie	Hysterical Blindness	Won
2007	Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Movie	What If God Were the Sun?	Nominated
2009	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Monk	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1974	Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama	A Woman Under the Influence	Won
1977		Opening Night	Nominated
1980		Gloria	Nominated
1983	Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film	Thursday's Child	Nominated
1985		An Early Frost	Nominated
1987		The Betty Ford Story	Won
1992	Best Supporting Actress - Television	Crazy in Love	Nominated
2002		Hysterical Blindness	Nominated

Other Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1971	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actress	Minnie and Moskowitz	Nominated
1974	National Board of Review	Best Actress	A Woman Under the Influence	Won
1974	New York Film Critics Circle	Best Actress		Nominated
1974	Kansas City Film Critics Circle	Best Actress		Won
1974	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Best Actress		Won
1977	Berlin International Film Festival	Silver Bear for Best Actress	Opening Night	Won
1980	Boston Society of Film Critics	Best Actress	Gloria	Won
1994	Sundance Film Festival	Tribute to Independent Vision Award	—	Won
1996	National Board of Review	Career Achievement Award	—	Won
1996	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Actress - Film	Unhook the Stars	Nominated
1999	Seattle International Film Festival	Excellence for Ensemble Cast	The Weekend	Won
2000	Satellite Award	Best Actress – Mini-Series or Television Film	The Color of Love: Jacey's Story	Nominated
2004	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special	The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie	Won
2004	Satellite Award	Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture	The Notebook	Nominated
2005	Saturn Award	Best Supporting Actress	The Skeleton	Nominated
2008	Screen Actors Guild Award	Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie	What If God Were the Sun	Nominated
2014	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Career Achievement Award	—	Won

References

Further reading

• Gallagher, John Andrew; Caminer, Sylvia (August 24, 2017). "The Grande Dame of American Indie Cinema: A Lost Interview with Gena Rowlands."". MovieMaker.

External links

• Gena Rowlands at the Internet Broadway Database
• Gena Rowlands at IMDb
• Gena Rowlands at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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[de] Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands (* 19. Juni 1930 in Madison, Wisconsin; eigentlich Virginia Cathryn Rowlands) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Gena Rowlands

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[es] Gena Rowlands

Virginia Cathryn Rowlands (Madison, Wisconsin; 19 de junio de 1930) es una actriz de cine, televisión y teatro estadounidense. Ganadora de dos Globo de Oro y de dos Premios Emmy.[1] Candidata a los Premios Óscar y los Premios del Sindicato de Actores.[1] Conocida por sus intervenciones en películas como A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Gloria (1980), Night on Earth (1991), Hope Floats (1998), The Notebook (2004) y The Skeleton Key (2005).[2]

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[ru] Роулендс, Джина

Джи́на Ро́улендс (англ. Gena Rowlands, род. 19 июня 1930, Мадисон, Висконсин, США) — американская актриса, член актёрской династии Кассаветисов. Лауреат четырёх премий «Эмми», двух премий «Золотой глобус», а также номинантка на премию «Оскар».

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