Gena Rowlands, whose real name Virginia Cathryn Rowlands was born on 19 June 1930 in Cambria, Wisconsin (United States)

As a teenager, she is fascinated by Bette Davis that led her to take courses in theater.

At the end of a performance she met her future husband John Cassavetes (who died in 1989) she was the muse with whom she made seven films. They married four months after they met.

She is attracted to the theater and live TV, but her husband himself is fascinated by the film world, she said: "He knew so well convey his enthusiasm as we followed their eyes closed." (Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk and Seymour Cassel).

For her, family is what is most precious, and she gave her husband three children, including actor and director Nick Cassavetes, and her daughter Zoe Cassavetes, writer.
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