Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness
- Written by Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce, edgy, often emotionally unstable on screen presence. She often played traumatised mothers or mother figures and her characters were often tinged with a brittle abrasiveness.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1930, Rowlands began her distinguished acting career...
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