Gena Rowlands, The Notebook star, has died aged 94.

Rowlands' death was confirmed on Wednesday by representatives for her son, filmmaker Nick Cassavetes. He revealed earlier this year that his mother had Alzheimer’s disease. TMZ reported that Rowlands died on Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells, California.

Operating outside the studio system, the husband-and-wife team of John Cassavetes and Rowlands created indelible portraits of working-class strivers and small-timers in such films as A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria and Faces.

Rowlands made 10 films across four decades with Cassavetes, including Minnie And Moskowitz in 1971, Opening Night in 1977 and Love Streams in 1984.

She earned two Oscar nods for two of them: 1974's A Woman Under The Influence, in which she played a wife and mother cracking under the burden of domestic harmony, and Gloria in 1980, about a woman who helps a young boy escape the mob.