Remember ‘The Notebook’? Gena Rowlands’s Family Shares Alzheimer’s Diagnosis [Video]

Oscar-nominated actor Gena Rowlands has been living with Alzheimer’s disease. She starred in feature film The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks’s story of love and dementia.

Four-time Emmy winning and two-time Golden Globe winning actor Gena Rowlands is likely a very familiar face. She has starred alongside her husband, John Cassavetes, in films including ‘A Woman Under the Influence’ (1974) and ‘Gloria’ (1980), although her film The Notebook (2004) which earned over $116 million, is what earned her worldwide recognition. Her son, film director Nick Cassavetes, who directed her in The Notebook, recently revealed that Rowlands, now 94, has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for the past five years.

Based on the best-selling novel written by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tells the story of Allie and Noah, a young couple (played in their youth by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling) whose love story spanned decades. Rowlands plays an older version of Allie, who lives with dementia in the film. 

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