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Gena Rowlands, ‘The Notebook’ and ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ Star, Dies at 94
Gena Rowlands, who starred in "The Notebook" and “A Woman Under the Influence” and was twice Oscar-nominated, died Wednesday.
I didn’t even think I’d be living this long,” she confessed to Variety ahead of the event in the roaring, throaty laugh instantly familiar from “A Woman Under the Influence,” as well as “Faces,” “Opening Night” and other Cassavetes-directed drams. In a 1975 review of “A Woman Under the Influence” for the Boston Phoenix, film critic Janet Maslin said, “I don’t know of another actress who possesses the physical and emotional elasticity to skitter through Mabel’s moods the way Rowlands does,” calling the actor’s breakdown scene ”as blood-curdlingly authentic as anything she or Cassavetes has ever done.” Rowlands scripted and starred with Ben Gazzara — a longtime collaborator from the Cassavetes days — in “Quartier Latin,” a short included in the 2006 omnibus film “Paris, je t’aime.” In recent years she also worked in television, guesting on “Monk” in 2009 (drawing an Emmy nom) and “NCIS” in 2010.
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