, a star of the popular The Notebook (2004) movie has but how much money did the four-time Emmy winner leave to her family after a successful career on the big screen and television? Born as on June 19, 1930 in Wisconsin as the daughter of an actress, she was destined to light up television sets and earned her acting qualifications from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She launched an , as well as Academy Award nominations, and it also made her quite a lot of money too. As of her time of death, Rowland's net worth was thought to be around $10m dollars with the income continuing to grow thanks to royalties and other stipends through contractual agreements in her career.
She died on Wednesday, August 14 at the age of 94 after dying to Alzheimer's in Indian Wells, California, three weeks after Nick Cassavetes announced she was fighting against the health condition. Who was Gena Rowlands? Rowlands kicked off her acting career as a teenager in 1949 by working in theatre, where she would go on to pick up roles in Broadway before earning her first starring spot in 1956 in the Middle of the Night production. It was around this time that she also headed into television alongside Paul Steward in Top Secret whilst she made her movie debut in The High cost of Loving in 1958 but her career entered into a golden age in the 1960s.
Starting from 1963 and running through to 1984, she made 10 movies with her husband, John Cassavetes until he died in 1989 and during this time they celebrated her first Emmy award as she starred as the ex-First Lady, Betty Ford in The Betty Ford Story in 1987. In her later life, she portrayed an elderly woman with Alzheimer's in The Notebook (2004), which was directed by her son where she earned praise for her authenticity in selling the role before she continued with smaller parts before exiting acting all together in 2014..
