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About

Birth Name: Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
Birth Notes: 19 June 1930, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Height: 5' 6"
Family: * John Cassavetes (9 April 1954 - 3 February 1989) (his death); 3 children

Filmography

A Woman Under the Influence (1974) as Mabel Longhetti
Light of Day (1987) as Jeanette Rasnick
Lonely Are the Brave (1962) as Jerry Bondi
Night on Earth (1991) as Victoria Snelling
Once Around (1991) as Marilyn Bella
Opening Night (1977) as Myrtle Gordon
Paris, je t'aime (2006) as Gena (segment "Quartier Latin")
Paulie (1998) as Ivy
Persepolis (2007) as Marjane's grandmother
Playing by Heart (1998) as Hannah
She's So Lovely (1997) as Miss Jane Green
Something to Talk About (1995) as Georgia King
Taking Lives (2004) as Mrs. Asher
The Notebook (2004) as Allie Calhoun
The Skeleton Key (2005) as Violet Devereaux
Tony Rome (1967) as Rita Kosterman
A Child Is Waiting (1963) as Sophie Widdicombe/Benham
A Constant Forge (2000) as Herself
Another Woman (1988) as Marion Post
Anything for John (1993)  
Bienvenue à Cannes (2007) as Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) as Herself
Broken English (2007) as Vivien Wilder-Mann
Edge of Outside (2006) as Herself
Faces (1968) as Jeannie Rapp
Gli intoccabili (1969) as Rosemary Scott
Gloria (1980) as Gloria Swenson
Hollywood Mavericks (1990) as Herself
Hope Floats (1998) as Ramona Calvert
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)  
Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000) as Herself - Interviewee
Love Streams (1984) as Sarah Lawson
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) as Minnie Moore
Shadows (1959) as Woman in Nightclub Audience
Silent Cries (1993) as Peggy Sutherland
Ted & Venus (1991) as Mrs. Turner
Tempest (1982) as Antonia Dimitrius
The Book of Joe (2005) as Lilith
The Brink's Job (1978) as Mary Pino
The High Cost of Loving (1958) as Jenny Fry
The Hive (2009)  
The Mighty (1998) as Gram
The Neon Bible (1995) as Mae Morgan
The Spiral Road (1962) as Els
The Weekend (1999) as Laura Ponti
Two-Minute Warning (1976) as Janet
Unhook the Stars (1996) as Mildred 'Millie' Hawks
Yellow (2012) as Mimi

Trivia

  * Born to Edwyn Myrwyn Rowlands, a banker and a state legislator (Assembly, 1927-1935; Senate, 1935-1939), and his wife Mary Allen Neal, a painter, she was raised in Cambria, Wisconsin, until her father was appointed to a position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1939. After the Washington years, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1942.
* Attended the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1950, when she left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
* Mother of Nick Cassavetes, Alexandra Cassavetes and Zoe R. Cassavetes .
* She and John Cassavetes made 10 movies together: A Child Is Waiting (1963), Faces (1968), Gloria (1980), Love Streams (1984), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), Opening Night (1977), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Gli intoccabili (1969), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and Tempest (1982).
* Sister of David Rowlands .
* Her performance as Mabel Longhetti in A Woman Under the Influence (1974) is ranked #63 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
* Name rhymes with henna.
* Has suppressed the first version of her husband's ('John Cassavetes (I)' (qv)) film Shadows (1959) and will neither allow it to be shown, nor acknowledge its existence.
* Favorite actress of Maggie Gyllenhaal.
* As of 2007, she is one of six women who have received Best Actress nominations for performances directed by their spouses. She is the only one who has had two Best Actress nominations directed by her spouse, those two being for A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & Gloria (1980). The other five women are Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996), Joanne Woodward for Rachel, Rachel (1968), Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria (1982), Elisabeth Bergner for Escape Me Never (1935) and Jean Simmons for The Happy Ending (1969). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in an Oscar-nominated performance (Pote tin Kyriaki (1960)), but they weren't married yet at the time of the nomination.
* Grandmother of Sasha Cassavetes and Virginia Cassavetes.
* Daughter of Lady Rowlands.
* Mother-in-law of Heather Wahlquist.
* Pedro Almodóvar dedicated his movie Todo sobre mi madre (1999) to her, Bette Davis and Romy Schneider .
* Graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, class of 1947. Other alumni include Forrest Tucker, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty and Sandra Bullock.
* Sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma women's fraternity.

Quotes

  * [On working with Bette Davis on the TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979) (TV)] When they offered that part opposite her, I didn't want to do it. I thought, what if all my illusions were broken? But I couldn't resist the temptation. She's no pussycat -- she's just a great and independent artist and I loved every minute working with her.
* [On John Cassavetes ] We had a great deal of freedom when John acted. We traveled a lot and it was fun. But with directing ... really. I think people don't have all their marbles who prefer directing to acting because you write for three months, you cut for maybe six months. He's the most terrifying perfectionist about what he wants. As an artist, I love him. As a husband, I hate him.

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