Among award-winning actress Gena Rowlands’s many film credits is The Notebook, the 2004 romantic drama in which she played a woman living with dementia. Now the 94-year-old star is herself living with Alzheimer’s disease, her son — and director of The Notebook — Nick Cassavetes, told Entertainment Weekly. “I got my mom to play older […]
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Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s, son Nick Cassavetes says
The celebrated actress and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s disease, her son and filmmaker Nick Cassavetes revealed. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. In the 2004 film The Notebook, Cassavetes directed his mother, who played the older version of the […]
Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s, son Nick Cassavetes says
The celebrated actress and honorary Academy Award recipient Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s disease, her son and filmmaker Nick Cassavetes revealed. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on Tuesday, said Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. In the 2004 film The Notebook, Cassavetes directed his mother, who played the older version of the […]