Gena Rowlands (1930-2024)
71.9 TOPICAL actor score · #198 of 1,977 actors
Gena Rowlands (1930-2024) has a TOPICAL actor score of 71.9 - ranked 198 of the 1,977 actors TOPICAL ranks. Their strongest parts are career standing and acting honours. They've won 7 acting honours from 8 nominations, including the Academy Honorary Award. Their best ten-year run was 1968-1977. Best films: A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Faces (1968), The Notebook (2004).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours95
Prime61
Their movies71
Credits43
Career standing97
- Acting honours7 wins, 8 nominations - incl. Academy Honorary Award; Silver Bear for Best Actress; Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
- Prime1968-1977
- Credits50 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 10 scored films (6 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 65 languages
“In 2021, Rowlands was called by critic Richard Brody of The New Yorker as "the most important and original movie actor of the past half century-plus."”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Gena Rowlands's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 375 | A Woman Under the Influence | 1974 | 1 |
| 1,095 | The Notebook | 2004 | 3 |
| 1,524 | Faces | 1968 | 2 |
| 1,960 | Gloria | 1980 | 1 |
| 2,407 | Night on Earth | 1991 | 2 |
| 3,359 | Paulie | 1998 | 1 |
| 4,161 | The Skeleton Key | 2005 | 2 |
| 4,768 | Two-Minute Warning | 1976 | 8 |
| 4,854 | Taking Lives | 2004 | 4 |
| 5,057 | The Brink's Job | 1978 | 5 |