Rowlands was best known for 'The Notebook' but she won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes and her prolific career earned her an honorary Academy Award in 2015.
Rowlands was best known for "The Notebook" but she won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes and her prolific career earned her an honorary Academy Award in 2015.Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and who later charmed audiences in her son's tear-jerker "The Notebook," has died. She was 94.
Rowlands made 10 films across four decades with Cassavetes, including "Minnie and Moskowitz" in 1971, "Opening Night" in 1977 and "Love Streams" in 1984. In addition to the Oscar nominations, Rowlands earned three Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy and two Golden Globes. She was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2015 in recognition of her work and legacy in Hollywood. "You know what's wonderful about being an actress? You don't just live one life," she said at the podium. "You live many lives."
One of her career triumphs was 1974's "Woman Under the Influence," playing a lower middle-class housewife who, the actress said, "was totally vulnerable and giving; she had no sense of her own worth." In "Gloria" she portrayed a faded showgirl menaced by her ex-boyfriend, a mobster boss. She was Oscar-nominated as best actress for both performances.
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