Gena Rowlands has died. The actress, finest identified for her function in The Pocket book, died at her California residence on Aug. 14, TMZ reviews. She was 94.
Per the outlet, each Rowlands’ husband, Robert Forrest, and daughter, Alexandra Cassavetes, had been by her facet when she died. Rowlands son, The Pocket book director Nick Cassavetes, has been at his mother’s home all through the week, the outlet reviews.
Rowlands shares Alexandra and Nick, in addition to daughter Zoe, along with her first husband, John Cassavetes, who died in 1989. She married Forrest in 2012.
A reason behind demise has but to be decided. ET has reached out to Rowlands’ rep for remark.
Rowlands’ demise comes two months after Nick revealed his mother was battling Alzheimer’s illness. It is the identical situation that Rowlands’ The Pocket book character, the older model of Rachel McAdams‘ Allie, suffers from.
“I bought my mother to play older Allie, and we spent a whole lot of time speaking about Alzheimer’s and desirous to be genuine with it, and now, for the final 5 years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Nick instructed Leisure Weekly. “She’s in full dementia. And it is so loopy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it is on us.”
The Emmy-winning actress’ final credited function was in 2017 for the brief Unlucky Circumstances. Along with her function in The Pocket book, she additionally had memorable roles in Hope Floats, The Skeleton Key, Paris, I Love You, One thing to Discuss About, and far more. She has a complete of 106 appearing credit to her identify.
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