Gena Rowlands
Gender: Female
Born: 19th June 1930 (currently 81 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: 87th Precinct, Peyton Place
Movies: A Woman Under the Influence, Faces, Gloria, Hope Floats, Lonely are the Brave, Love Streams, Minnie and Moskowitz, Opening Night, The Notebook, The Skeleton Key, Paulie, Light of Day, Playing by Heart, Unhook the Stars, Tempest, Another Woman, Hysterical Blindness, Two-Minute Warning, The Mighty, Something to Talk About, Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter, The Neon Bible, What If God Were the Sun?, Night on Earth, The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie, Charms for the Easy Life, The Weekend, The Notebook, Wild Iris, An Early Frost, Broken English, The Brink's Job, Once Around, The Color Of Love: Jacey's Story, Tony Rome, She's So Lovely, The Spiral Road, Paris, je t'aime, Persepolis, Thursday's Child, Machine Gun McCain, Taking Lives, Yellow, A Child Is Waiting, Parallel Lives
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress of film, stage and television. The four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner is best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy Award-nominated performances.
Born as Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin, Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and a state legislator, and her mother, Mary Allen (née Neal), was a painter and housewife originally from Arkansas. The 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; and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1947-50, she attended the University of Wisconsin, where she was a popular student already renowned for her beauty. She left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In the early 1950s, Rowlands performed with repertory theatre companies and at the Provincetown Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in
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