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Gena Rowlands

(1930–2024) Television Actor United States

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Gena Rowlands was a television actor from the United States, best known for Crazy in Love.

Quick Facts About Gena Rowlands

Born: June 19, 1930
Died: August 14, 2024
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: Crazy in Love
Known for: Lonely Are the Brave
Spouse: Robert Forrest

About Gena Rowlands

Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands was an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television spanned nearly seven decades. She was a four-time Emmy Award and two-time Golden Globe winner, and she was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Seattle International Film Festival Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming Mary Pickford Award Sundance Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama San Francisco International Film Festival

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Silver Shell for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Academy Honorary Award Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie National Board of Review of Motion Pictures National Board of Review Award for Best Actress

Quotes by Gena Rowlands · Page 2

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for…

Courses

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[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the…

Bits

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John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and…

California

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He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

Actors

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Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

Paddy

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I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

Actresses

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Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw.…

Laughing

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People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Cinema

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Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over…

Cinema

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I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so…

Exciting

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I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

Had

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So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

Shadow

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John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said,…

Every night

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I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Bigs

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I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Agree

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The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become…

About

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You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Alive

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If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Forget

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