CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

People Magazine reports:

Gena Rowlands, screen icon best known for A Woman Under the Influence and The Notebook, has died. She was 94.

Rowlands died surrounded by her family – including her husband Robert and daughter Alexandra – at her Indian Welles, Calif. home on Wednesday, Aug. 14, reports TMZ, adding that no cause of death was immediately available. Her son Nick Cassavetes’ agent’s office also confirmed the news to PEOPLE.

In June 2024, Nick told Entertainment Weekly that his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years ago. Rowlands was born in June 1930 in Cambria, Wisconsin. She began acting in the 1950s and made her Broadway debut in The Seven Year Itch.

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Gena Rowlands, the actress best known for ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ and ‘The Notebook’, has passed away at 94. pic.twitter.com/Igy2qU6O2C

— Los Angeles Magazine (@LAmag) August 15, 2024