Date of birth: 1930-06-19
Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 珍娜·羅蘭, Virginia Cathryn Rowlands, جنا رولندز

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).

1991-12-12
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

1987-02-06
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.

1968-11-24
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric

1998-12-30
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak

2006-06-21
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director

1980-10-01
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant gu

2004-06-25
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a

2004-03-19
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the id

1988-10-13
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor

1976-11-12
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major ch

1971-12-22
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders i

1978-12-08
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi

1967-11-10
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry s

1998-05-29
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping

1977-12-22
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat

1998-06-01
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma

2007-11-22
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has childr

2005-07-29
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery

1998-04-17
Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor w

1974-11-18
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Ni

1962-05-24
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape wit

2002-01-16
Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.

1969-04-01
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn o

1991-01-18
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling r

1996-09-04
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when

1995-08-23
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events th

1982-08-13
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the succes

1995-08-04
Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is d

2001-01-01
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

1984-03-22
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

2002-08-18
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth

1998-04-30
Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the

1985-05-01
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mo

2012-09-08
A young substitute teacher escapes from her drudging everyday life by fantasizing about bizarre para

2007-05-14
A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally i

2003-04-03
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame

1963-02-13
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hans

1992-08-10
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men w

2004-03-30
A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society.

1993-03-08
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military sold

1993-09-06
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for
1996-01-28

1962-08-03
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he

1958-05-16
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut

1999-06-28
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstat

2000-03-19
Georgia Potter, an old-fashioned widow who lives in a small Southern town, whose life changes drasti

1987-03-02
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty F

1979-05-13
A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she i

1991-12-29
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's

2014-03-25
The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face

2006-06-11
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri

2011-12-16
A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people

2006-05-03
Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this docum

2014-12-12
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per we

1994-08-04
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemi

1968-01-01
A 10 minute demo reel for a proposed TV series based on the Tony Rome PI movies. With an original sc

1978-11-26
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

2011-11-19
James Benning’s "remake" of John Cassavetes’s Faces (1968) is an unexpected venture into the world o

2017-05-10
1985-01-16

1983-02-01
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However,

1984-07-01
Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film,

1998-01-18
Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had childre

1998-12-13
When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the tw

1990-02-09
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their liv

2000-08-26
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir

2000-10-01
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am

1997-08-29
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of hi

2007-10-27
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca

1990-09-07
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of fil

2017-12-18
Bette Davis is the most disturbing film diva Hollywood has ever seen. Her life and her roles reflect

2004-01-01
A documentary featuring interviews with actors Lynn Carlin, Gena Rowlands, and Seymour Cassel, and c

2014-08-01
Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’

2019-06-05
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with

1983-02-05
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determ

1960-10-14
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopard

1970-12-08
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives an

1991-08-08
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poet

2021-08-14
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as