Gena Rowlands will receive the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s career achievement prize during its annual awards ceremony next year on January 10.
Rowlands’ career encompasses six decades of work in film, television, and theater. She is best known for her collaborations with her husband John Cassavetes, who directed her in ten films, including two Oscar-nominated performances in A Woman Under the Influence (1975) and Gloria (1981). Rowlands also won four Emmys for The Betty Ford Story (1987), Face of a Stranger (1991), Hysterical Blindness (2003), and The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2004).
The 84-year-old remains an active performer, having appeared in the sci-fi drama Parts Per Billion earlier this year and starring in the upcoming drama Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (out December 12).
[via Variety]
