The Notebook Star Gena Rowlands Dies At 94 (X image @imhectornavarro)
The acclaimed American actress, Gena Rowland, died at the age of 94. The news was released by Entertainment Weekly citing the star’s son Nick Cassavetes. He revealed in June that Rowland had Alzheimer’s, like her own mother and the character she portrayed in the 2004 film The Notebook.
Rowlands is well- known for her roles of troubled women in films like Gloria, and A Woman Under the Influence. She starred in dozens of films during her career that started on stage and television in the 1950s. She portrayed award-winning roles in several movies directed by her first husband, actor, writer, and director John Cassavetes.
“She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy – we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us,” her son, who directed The Notebook, told Entertainment Weekly.
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During 1970s and 80s, Rowlands and Cassavetes were the golden couple of the independent films in the us. Cassavetes was a pioneer in cinema verite, a technique that aimed to capture natural reactions and events, and Rowlands was his muse.
“Independent filmmaking existed before Cassavetes, but Cassavetes, working with Rowlands, managed to make an independent cinema that borrowed from Hollywood – not in plots or styles but in actorly allure and dramatic power,” said The New Yorker report in 2016.
Rowlands made 10 films with Cassavetes before his death in 1989. The psychological drama Opening Night (1977), the marital saga Faces (1968) and 1984 movie Love Streams, in which she played his sister, are some among them.
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The star won best actress Emmys for The Betty Ford Story (1987) and the drama Face of a Stranger (1992). She also won a best supporting trophy in a miniseries or movie for Hysterical Blindness (2002).
Rowland met Cassavetes in American Academy of Dramatic Arts where she studied Drama. Rowlands was married to Cassavetes from 1954 until his death. They had three children. In 2012, she married businessman Robert Forrest.
