‘The Notebook’ Actress, Golden Globes Winner Gena Rowlands Dead at Age 94
By Space Coast Daily // August 14, 2024
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(FOX NEWS) – Gena Rowlands, the Golden Globe winner who portrayed an older version of Rachel McAdam’s character, Allie, in the 2004 film “The Notebook,” has died at 94.
Rowlands died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, California, representatives for her son, filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, said, according to the Associated Press.
Her official cause of death has not been released.
Cassavetes, the director of the famed 2004 romantic comedy, previously revealed his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis when discussing the “Notebooks” 20th anniversary.
“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,” Cassavetes told Entertainment Weekly of Rowlands’ character, who also had dementia. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
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