<영향력 있는 여자>and <글로리아>are all works she worked on with her ex-husband, John Cassavetes.
Her Emmy Awards are for The Betty Ford Story, The Face of a Stranger, Hysterical Blindness, and The Incredible Mrs. Rich.
She was born in Wisconsin and moved to New York City, where she made her Broadway debut in The Seven Year Itch.
In 1956 she appeared in the Broadway play Middle of the Night.
In 2015, she received an Honorary Academy Award for her long acting career.
“I never thought I’d live this long, working this long,” she recently told Variety., external.
She has also had leading roles in the films 'Faces', 'Opening Night', 'Unhook the Stars', 'Yellow and Broken English', 'Hope Floats', 'The Tempest', 'The Brink's Job', 'Tony Rome' and 'The Neon Bible'.
The Notebook was directed in 2004 by her son, Nick Cassavetes, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly., external The story is about his mother playing a character with dementia.
“We’ve been talking about Alzheimer’s for a long time and we wanted to get to the truth, and now she’s been living with Alzheimer’s for the past five years,” he said.
“She's got full-blown dementia. It's just crazy. We lived it, she acted it out, and now it's on us.”
