---
name: "Lady Rowlands"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lady-rowlands"
fi1m_id: "lady-rowlands"
imdb_id: "nm0746767"
tmdb_id: 146711
wikidata_id: "Q16014493"
roles: ["Set decoration"]
born: "12 August 1904"
died: "28 May 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:51:04.899274+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lady Rowlands

## Identity

Lady Rowlands

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lady-rowlands
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lady-rowlands
- **IMDb ID:** nm0746767
- **TMDB ID:** 146711
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16014493
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Rowlands, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16014493, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/146711

Set decoration. Born 12 August 1904 in Arkansas, USA. Died 28 May 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Set decoration
- **Born:** 12 August 1904, Arkansas, USA
- **Died:** 28 May 1999
- **Active:** 1968–1974
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 76 (1), 1970s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Rowlands, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16014493, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/146711

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*A Woman Under the Influence*](https://film.one/film/a-woman-under-the-influence.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lady Rowlands (born Mary Allen Neal) was an American actress. She appeared in several films directed by John Cassavetes, who was married to her daughter, the actress Gena Rowlands.

Her screen roles included Georgia Moore in *Minnie and Moskowitz* (1971), Martha Mortensen in *A Woman Under the Influence* (1974), Melva Drake in *Opening Night* (1977) and Mrs Sullivan in the television film *Dr. Strange* (1978). She also worked as a set decorator on *Faces* (1968). In two of Cassavetes’s films she played the mother of characters portrayed by her real-life daughter.

Rowlands was born on 12 April 1904 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and died on 28 May 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *A Woman Under the Influence* (1974), Fi1m 86, as Martha Mortensen — [page](https://film.one/film/a-woman-under-the-influence.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Faces* (1968), Fi1m 76, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/faces.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ted & Venus* (1991), as Linda's Grandmother
- *Dr. Strange* (1978), as Mrs. Sullivan
- *Opening Night* (1977), as Melva Drake
- *A Woman Under the Influence* (1974), as Martha Mortensen — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-woman-under-the-influence.md)
- *The Teacher* (1974), as Gossiping Lady 2
- *Minnie and Moskowitz* (1971), as Georgia Moore
- *Faces* (1968), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/faces.md)

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