Virginia "Gena" Rowlands is an American retired actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria, which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She won the Silver Bear for her performance. She starred in Woody Allen's Another Woman and The Notebook. Gena Rowlands is the most important and original movie actor of the past half century-plus, according to The New Yorker.