Gena Rowlands | Born 1930

Gena Rowlands has had an impressive career of more than seven decades. She first started in the 1950s in theater. She mostly took roles in television early on. However, by 1963, she started to collaborate with her then-husband, actor-director John Cassavetes. They collaborated on ten films from 1963 to 1984. The most notable among them are A Woman Under Influence and Gloria, which saw Rowlands get an Oscar nomination. In addition, her roles in Another Woman and Opening Night earned her a lot of praise from critics.

In her later years, she became known to many for her role in The Notebook, which was directed by her son Nick Cassavetes. Today, at age 92, Rowlands has retired from acting altogether. Her last acting credit was in 2014, when she appeared in the film adaptation of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.