Gena Rowlands
Award-winning actor , whose appearances in “A Woman Under the Influence,” “Gloria” and “The Notebook” were among her many celebrated collaborations with her late husband, John Cassavetes, and their son, Nick, died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells after a years-long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 94. Rowland's death was confirmed by the office of Danny Greenberg, Nick Cassavete's agent at WME. No other details are available at this time.
After Cassavetes died in 1989, at age 59, her son asked his mother to star in a film he was making, 1996's 'Unhook the Stars,' in which she played a middle-aged woman finally free of her family obligations. Her late husband 'wrote wonderful parts for women, and of course, I got them,' she told The Times at the time. 'So it is very emotional and satisfying to have a son who puts a script in my lap and says, 'Mother, let's make this movie.
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