GENA ROWLANDS

Gena Rowlands has been with the industry for almost six decades as an actress. She received multiple accolades throughout the years including four Emmy’s and a pair of Golden Globes. She also received an Honorary Academy Award for all of her contributions and they credited her for her performance. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association also gave Rowlands a Lifetime Achievement Award back in 2015. She only wore her beautiful wedding dress and only exchanged vows once in her life, unlike her contemporaries.

In her long career, Gena Rowlands had contributed a variety of classical roles by co-working with her husband John Cassavetes who was transferred from acting to directing. Her representative works contained A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, Opening Night, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, and The Notebook. With her excellent performances, Gena Rowlands had achieved many successes such as the Academy Award for Best Actress as well as an Honorary Academy Award.

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