The Notebook actress Gena Rowlands dies at 94

Both A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria were collaborations with her former husband John Cassavetes.

Her Emmys were for The Betty Ford Story, Face of a Stranger, Hysterical Blindness, and The Incredible Mrs Ritchie.

Born in Wisconsin, she moved to New York and stared in the Broadway debut of The Seven Year Itch.

In 1956 she starred in Broadway play Middle of the Night.

In 2015, she was given an honorary Academy Award for her long acting career.

“Working this long? I didn’t even think I’d be living this long,” she recently told Variety, external.

She also starred in films Faces, Opening Night, Unhook the Stars, Yellow and Broken English, Hope Floats, Tempest, The Brink’s Job, Tony Rome and The Neon Bible.

The Notebook was directed in 2004 by her son Nick Cassavetes, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly, external about how his mother played a character suffering from dementia.

“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,” he said.

“She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”