Gena Rowlands has died. The actress, finest identified for her position in The Pocket book, died at her California house on Aug. 14, TMZ stories. She was 94.
Per the outlet, each Rowlands’ husband, Robert Forrest, and daughter, Alexandra Cassavetes, have been by her aspect when she died. Rowlands son, The Pocket book director Nick Cassavetes, has been at his mother’s home all through the week, the outlet stories.
Rowlands shares Alexandra and Nick, in addition to daughter Zoe, together 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 got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Nick instructed Leisure Weekly. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
The Emmy-winning actress’ final credited position was in 2017 for the brief Unlucky Circumstances. Along with her position in The Pocket book, she additionally had memorable roles in Hope Floats, The Skeleton Key, Paris, I Love You, One thing to Speak About, and far more. She has a complete of 106 performing credit to her title.
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