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Gena Rowlands
Birth at
19 June 1930
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Gina (Virginia) Rowlands was born on June 19, 1930, in Madison, Wisconsin. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, the girl went to try her luck on stage. Thanks to her determination and perseverance, she made her Broadway debut in 1952. In the theater “Provinstown Playhouse”, where the young Gina worked as a wardrobe, it was necessary to replace the main character in the play “Itching of the seventh day”, and Gina Rowlands coped with this
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Gina (Virginia) Rowlands was born on June 19, 1930, in Madison, Wisconsin.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, the girl went to try her luck on stage. Thanks to her determination and perseverance, she made her Broadway debut in 1952. In the theater “Provinstown Playhouse”, where the young Gina worked as a wardrobe, it was necessary to replace the main character in the play “Itching of the seventh day”, and Gina Rowlands coped with this brilliantly! Until 1958, the actress fully devoted herself to the theater, but after the main role in the play “Middle of the Night”, Gina Rowlands went to conquer Hollywood.
The first film for actress Gina Rowlands was Jose Ferrer’s The High Price of Love (1958), filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Around the same time, Gina married Hollywood director John Cassavetes, who often invited his wife to star in his films. For their joint work “Woman under the influence” and “Gloria”, the actress was nominated for the award for Best Actress, and was also recognized as the best actress at the Berlin IFF for her work in the film “Discovery Night”. Gina Rowlands won an Emmy Award for the image of the first lady she created in the TV movie The Betty Ford Story. Later, the actress received this award three times.
The famous actress has four wonderful children who continued the profession of parents. Her son by John Cassavetes, Nick Cassavetes, followed the example of his father, also became a director, and filmed his mother in many of his films. The film “Breaking Star” became a family project, the script for which John wrote. Another son of Gina, Zoe Cassavetes also became a director, and his daughter, Alexandra Cassavetes, became an actress. And the famous director Pedro Almoddovar even dedicated to Gina Rowlands, together with Romy Schneider and Betty Rowlands, his film All About My Mother. /