Gena Rowlands’ Son Nick Cassavetes Shares Sweet Fan Tributes After Her Death at 94: ‘Rest Easy Gena’

Mar. 15, 2025

Gena Rowlands and Nick Cassavetes at the 2014 Savannah Film Festival.Photo:Cindy Ord/Getty

Cindy Ord/Getty

Thefirst postincluded a photo of Rowlands in the movieGloriaalongside the words, “This picture has graced the walls of every office I’ve ever had! An amazing strong talented woman has left us! Rest easy Gena Rowlands!”

Nick Cassavetes shares fan tribute to his mother Gena Rowlands.Nick cassavetes/Instagram

Nick cassavetes/Instagram

A second post from the same fan featured a black-and-white photo of Rowlands and her late filmmaker husband John Cassavetes — Nick’s father — in their movieOpening Night.

John, with whom Rowlands shared son Nick and daughters Alexandra and Zoe, died in 1989 at the age of 59 from complications of cirrhosis.

“Another great team reunited! RIP Gena Rowlands,” the shared post was captioned.

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Rowlands and John worked on 10 films together, includingGloria,Opening Night,A Woman Under the InfluenceandMinnie and Moskowitz.

Both 1974’sA Woman Under the Influenceand 1980’sGloriasaw Rowlands earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

Rowlands remarried in 2012 to retired businessman Robert Forrest.

Gena Rowlands and Nick Cassavetes at their Los Angeles house in 1964.Leo Fuchs/Getty

Leo Fuchs/Getty

Nick alsoreposted a Storyfrom producer Dajana Gudic, with whom he worked on 2023 filmImpulse, who shared a black-and-white photo of Rowlands in her younger years.

“I never got a chance to meet her, but the way she raised her son, my dear friend @paul_smenus says everything about her. Rest in peace beautiful soul, Gena Rowlands,” Gudic wrote, adding a series of white heart emojis to her caption.

In June, Nick toldEntertainment Weeklythat his mother had beendiagnosed with Alzheimer’s diseasefive years ago.

The pair worked together on 2004 filmThe Notebook, with Nick directing his mother in her role as an older Allie, which became one of her best known roles.

source: people.com