Gena Rowlands, The Notebook Actress and Film Icon, Dead at 94

Gena Rowlands, the award-winning actress recognized for her roles in movies similar to A Girl Beneath the Affect, Gloria, and The Pocket book, has died on the age of 94.

Rowlands died Wednesday, August 14th, at her dwelling in Indian Wells, California, in response to TMZ. She had been battling Alzheimer’s illness.

Hailing from Cambria, Wisconsin, Rowlands initially acquired her begin in theater, learning drama on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York Metropolis. Upon graduating, she starred in a number of repertory productions earlier than making her Broadway debut in The Seven Yr Itch. She later starred within the Broadway play Center of the Night time.

Starting within the mid-Fifties, Rowlands transitioned to a profession in tv. She starred within the syndicated tv sequence Prime Secret and made visitor appearances on reveals together with Laramie, Riverboat, 77 Sundown Strip, and Dr. Kildare. She additionally appeared on a number of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Nonetheless, Rowlands’ large break got here in 1962 when she starred reverse Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau within the characteristic movie Lonely Are the Courageous.  The next yr, she teamed up along with her husband, actor-director John Cassavetes, on A Little one Is Ready, which marked the primary of 10 movies that they’d make collectively.

Notably, the Cassavantes-directed movies A Girl Beneath the Affect and Gloria each earned Rowlands nominations for the Academy Award for Greatest Actress.

Rowlands’ different notable movie roles included Opening Night time (additionally directed by Cassavetes); Woody Allen’s One other Ladies; and the made-for-TV film The Betty Ford Story, for which she gained a Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Actress. In 2004, she starred in The Pocket book, which was directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes.

Over the course of her 65-year profession, Rowlands acquired 4 Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and two Nationwide Board of Evaluate Awards, in addition to two Academy Award nominations. In 2015, she was offered with an honorary Academy Award, recognizing her as an “unique expertise whose devotion to her craft has earned her worldwide recognition as an unbiased movie icon.”