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Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an United
States|American actress.  Born Virginia Cathryn
Rowlands  in Cambria, Wisconsin, she attended the
University of Wisconsin.  Her father was a state
Assemblyman.

Rowlands appeared in Broadway in the late 1950s,
and made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving
in 1958.  She starred in several anthology
television series, including Robert Montgomery
Presents, Kraft Television Theatre and Studio One
(television series)|Studio One, among many others.
 In 1961 she starred in the well-received
television series 87th Precinct, and in 1964 in
Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place.

Teaming with her husband, writer and director John
Cassavetes, Rowlands starred in many productions,
including Staccato (movie)|Staccato, A Child Is
Waiting, Faces (movie)|Faces, Gloria
(movie)|Gloria (nomination for Academy Award for
Best Actress), Love Streams, Minnie and Moskowitz,
She's So Lovely, Two Minute Warning and A Woman
Under the Influence (Academy Award nomination). 
She starred in The Neon Bible.  In 1985, Rowlands
played the mother in the critically acclaimed
made-for-TV movie An Early Frost. In recent years
she has appeared in Paulie and in Mira Nair's HBO
movie, Hysterical Blindness.  

She was recently in The Notebook, which was
directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes.

== External links ==
*http://home.nyc.rr.com/alweisel/premieregenarowla
nds.htm Interview with Gena Rowlands
*imdb name|id=0001687|name=Gena Rowlands